History News and Events
Notes of resistance
February 24, 2021
History Professor Eric Porter delves deeply into jazz improvisation as a means for "resistance, survival, and promoting one’s own resiliency."
LASER talk to feature research by UCSC deans of the humanities and social sciences
February 22, 2021
The event will feature research presentations by Jasmine Alinder, Dean of the Humanities (“Representing Japanese American Incarceration”), and Katharyne Mitchell, Dean of the Social Sciences (“Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory”).
Annual Jewish Studies Diller Lecture to feature award-winning author Sarah Stein
February 11, 2021
This year’s Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies will feature guest author and scholar Sarah Abrevaya Stein—in conversation with UCSC’s Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies, Alma Heckman—on Wednesday, February 17, at 5 p.m.
UCSC awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grants to support faculty research
January 28, 2021
UC Santa Cruz has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support faculty research and writing leading to book projects.
In Memoriam: Buchanan Sharp (1942–2020)
January 19, 2021
With profound sadness, we announce the death of Buchanan Sharp, professor emeritus of history, an extraordinary person, a lively spirit, and one of our department's most outstanding teachers.
UC Santa Cruz scholar of Chinese American history Judy Yung dies at 74
January 4, 2021
Judy Yung, a pioneering author and scholar of Chinese American and women's history, died on December 14, 2020.
History Students Win Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowships
December 1, 2020
The Department of History is delighted to announce that three History majors have received Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowships for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Elaine Sullivan awarded American Historical Association prize for innovation in digital history
November 08, 2020
UCSC associate professor of history Elaine Sullivan and alumnus Vincent DiGirolamo have each received a 2020 prize from the American Historical Association.
UCSC historian Greg O’Malley awarded NEH grant for research on slavery in early America
August 12, 2020
UCSC history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a Public Scholars Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a biography of David George, who was born a slave in 1743 and whose pursuit of freedom intersects with major events of the Revolutionary Era.
