History News & Events
Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu launches her new book: "The Movies of Racial Childhoods"
February 29, 2024
To celebrate, Shimizu will be hosting a book launch on the University of California, Santa Cruz Campus at the Sesnon Gallery, where the book will be available for purchase from Two Birds Books. The book will be discussed in conversation with Shimizu and the Sesnon Gallery director Valeria Miranda.
Upcoming exhibition will shine a light on vibrant Filipino American life on the Central Coast
February 20, 2024
Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley will run from April 12 through August 4 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art And History in downtown Santa Cruz, highlighting the vitality, struggles, and resilience of the Central Coast’s Filipino migrant community
Undergraduate Public Fellows Program connects humanities studies with real-world impact
February 6, 2024
The Humanities Institute's Public Fellows Program offers a mutually enriching opportunity for students to bring the humanities skills and knowledge they acquire in their university courses to diverse roles at non-profit organizations, museums, cultural institutions, and publishing venues.
Music Professor Russell Rodriguez wins the Américo Paredes Prize
January 30, 2024
The American Folklore Society awarded UC Santa Cruz professor Russell Rodriguez the annual Paredes prize in recognition of his work in the arts with the local community and his contributions to folklore and tradition.
UCSC History Graduate Students Participate at the 2024 American Historical Association Meeting
January 29, 2024
UC Santa Cruz History graduate students represented our department well at the 2024 American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco. The conference ran from January 4th to 7th.
National Endowment for the Humanities gives $60,000 award to two UCSC faculty members
January 24, 2024
The National Endowment for the Humanities included two UC Santa Cruz professors in their most recent round of grants and awards. Drs. Jennifer Derr and Stacy Kamehiro are using their newly awarded funding to continue in the projects that focus on diverse groups and global impacts.
Three historians to share their insights on slavery’s origins in America at on-campus panel discussion.
January 22, 2024
Next week’s on-campus panel discussion, “What Actually Happened In 1619,” will provide a deeper understanding of the year 1619 as a turning point in slavery’s history. This talk takes place Thursday, February 1 at the Music Recital Hall on campus.
Historian Benjamin Breen explores the troubled birth of psychedelic science in acclaimed new book, Tripping On Utopia.
January 18, 2024
UC Santa Cruz Associate History Professor Benjamin Breen will read from his new book about the fraught history of Cold War-era psychedelic science at Bookshop Santa Cruz this Tuesday.
Sage Michaels (Rachel Carson, ‘22, Intensive History) is sharing her passion for history
January 10, 2024
Sage Michaels discovered her passion for history while taking Humanities courses at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Now she works as an interpretive guide at two Massachusetts museums, where she’s focusing on the American Revolutionary War while getting ready to start graduate school.
History Department Fall Welcome
September 7, 2023
Kick off the new school year by connecting with your History Department faculty, staff, and fellow students! Fall Welcome is an excellent opportunity to learn about the exciting history courses, events, and research opportunities available to you this year.
National Science Foundation Graduate Recruitment Fellowship
September 6, 2022
The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is recruiting three PhD students to begin in the Fall of 2024 to pursue research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South. Applications are due December 7, 2023.
History Department Fall Welcome
August 23, 2022
Kick off the new school year by connecting with your History Department faculty, staff, and fellow students! Fall Welcome is an excellent opportunity to learn about the exciting history courses, events, and research opportunities available to you this year.
Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan Receives 2022 Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award
June 3, 2022
The Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award celebrates the Humanities Division faculty’s commitment to excellence in teaching and its transformative impact for undergraduate students.
Undergrad Profile: Theresa Bostic
June 1, 2022
Theresa Bostic is a third-year History major and 2021-22 The Humanities Institute (THI) Undergraduate Research Fellow.
History alumnus Mark Zemelman named 2022 Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Awardee
May 20, 2022
The Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award was created in 2021 to recognize undergraduate banana slugs who have led extraordinary lives and significantly impacted our world.
Watsonville Filipino history digital archive now available for public viewing
April 12, 2022
The Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive is now viewable online and features oral history recordings, original documents, photos, and family artifacts highlighting Filipino history in the Pajaro Valley.
Ricky Bluthenthal announced as 2022 social sciences distinguished alumni award recipient
April 04, 2022
The Social Sciences division is proud to announce trailblazing health equity researcher and advocate Ricky Bluthenthal (Merrill ’86, History and Sociology) as the recipient of the 2022 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award.
Maya K. Peterson Memorial
March 30, 2022
A celebration of the life and work of UCSC History Professor Maya Peterson will take place on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 from 4:30-6:00pm at the Cowell College Provost House.
History major Brianna-Isabella Aispuro awarded Siobhan O'Neill Memorial Scholarship
March 28, 2022
This annual scholarship supports history majors with an interest in history, art, and/or government.
Seed funding grants for early-stage research, creative projects given to 19 awardees
March 28, 2022
The UCSC Office of Research has awarded funds this month to 19 projects through its inaugural Seed Funding for Early Stage Initiatives program
History professor earns 2021 National Jewish Book Award for look at New York Hasidic Jewish community
January 26, 2022
Nathaniel Deutsch was recently announced as a winner of a 2021 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies for his recently-published work, A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg. He shares the award with his co-author Michael Casper.
Two History department faculty members awarded Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowships for 2022-23
January 13, 2022
Congratulations to Professors Elaine Sullivan and Alice Yang, who have been awarded two of the inaugural Faculty Public Humanities, Digital, and Community-Engaged Research Fellowships for 2022-23!
Tyler Stovall, renowned history professor and former humanities dean, dies at 67
December 16, 2021
Stovall was a faculty member of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division for 13 years, including three years serving as the chair of the History Department and provost of Stevenson College.
UC Santa Cruz receives Mellon Foundation humanities grant to investigate race, biomedicine
December 15, 2021
Faculty and students at UC Santa Cruz will critically investigate the relationships among medicine, race, and the environment both in the United States and in other regions of the globe shaped by the influence of American medicine.
Meleia Simon-Reynolds: Documenting the local Filipino-American experience
November 1, 2021
Meleia Simon-Reynolds and other students are helping preserve local Filipino-American history by creating an oral history digital archive for the community organization Watsonville is in the Heart.
History professor wins prize for article on post-Civil War incarceration of African American children
July 16, 2021
Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the 2021 Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2020. The journal explores how knowledge of the Civil War era informs our understanding of 21st-century politics and society.
Library’s new Community Archiving Program to broaden scope of Regional History Project
July 06, 2021
The University Library has announced the establishment of a new Community Archiving Program that will build on the foundation of its decades-old Regional History Project.