Graduate Student Directory

Summary of Expertise

Teaching Assistant Experience: 

HIS 184B: Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present
HIS 2B: World Since 1500
HIS 110G: Strange Days: The American People and Their National Security State During the Cold War
HIS 70A: Modern European History, 1500-1815
HIS 78: History of Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond 
EDUC 205: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in a Diverse Society
FEMST 19: Black Feminisms an Introduction
HIS 100: Historical Skills and Methods
HIS 140E: Women in China's Long 20th Century

Research Interests

Black British History
Black European Studies
Black Studies and the African Diaspora
Gender and Sexuality 
Cultural Studies 

Biography, Education and Training

Dissertation in Progress:
"Spectres of Empire: Black Activism and Cultural Politics in Neocolonial Britain 1976-2000"
Learn more about my dissertation and research interests here:
https://thi.ucsc.edu/grad-profile-leonard-butingan/

Designated Emphasis:
Sociology
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Education:
M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz (2021)
M.A., History, University of California, Irvine (2017)
B.A., History Cum Laude, University of Southern California (2014)

Honors, Awards and Grants

UCSC Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Research/Travel Grant 2024
UCSC Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2023
UCSC History Department Summer Research Fellowship, 2023
North American Conference on British Studies Diversity and Inclusion Honorable Mention 
     Fellowship, 2022
UCSC History Dept Summer Fellowship 2022
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development (SSRC-DPD) Program Grant 2022
UCSC History Dept Summer Fellowship 2021
Regents Fellowship 2019-2020

Selected Publications

2024 Book Review Windrush 75 Years of Modern Britain, Oral History Society (Oral History Journal)
         https://www.ohs.org.uk/uncategorised/windrush-75-years-of-modern-britain/ 
2021 M.A. Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, Dept. of History:
" 'If we don't tell our story then who will?': the Production of Black Feminist Theory in Britain 1978-1986"
2017 M.A. Thesis, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of History:
"There's a South Central in Every City: Britain and the Transatlantic Legacy of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising"
2015 (co-author) "Historic Central Avenue: A Public History Resource Website""Collecting and sharing resources related to the historic Central Avenue corridor and its neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California" 

Selected Presentations

“The Paradox of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Day and Human Rights Day: From Sharpeville to Gaza,” Liberation Movement’s UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, London, House of Commons, March 2024.

Guest Lecture: “Political Blackness in Britain 1968-1983,” in SOCY 117E: Migrant Europe, UCSC, November 2023.

“The Europe Wide Anti Racist Struggle in Britain: Black British Resistance Against  Fortress Europe 1987-2000,” European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 2023.

“Black Against Borders: Black British Activism and Fortress Europe,” The Issue of Truth: Representing Black British History, Institute of Historical Research, London, September 2023.

“The Living History of Apartheid and Anti-Apartheid Activism in South Africa,”  Liberation Movement’s UN Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, London, March 2023.

Guest Lecture: “The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Black Anti-Racist Activism in Britain 1948-1990,” in His 184B: Race and Anti-Racism in Europe 1870-pres, UCSC, May 2022.

“Mapping the Nuremberg Chronicle.” Panelist. University of Southern California  Department of Special Collections, Showcasing Digital Scholarship at USC,  Los Angeles, CA, October 2015.