Dear alumni/ae, faculty, and friends of the Department of History,
As I start my final quarter as department chair, our leadership team is again changing. Lisa Jacobson stepped down as vice chair after three years of dedicated service; it has been a delight to work with her. Erika Rappaport ended her two-year term as director of Undergraduate Studies. I am grateful to both of them. Giuliana Perrone is continuing as director of History of Public Policy and Law, soon to be called History of Policy, Law, and Government; Beth DePalma Digeser is continuing as director of Graduate Studies. Ya Zuo is our new vice chair and John W.I. Lee our new director of Undergraduate Studies.
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There is exciting news to share. Shaun Armstrong and Amanda Joyce Hall have joined our department this fall. Furthermore, we are having two searches this academic year; one for an assistant professor in 20th century Mexico, the other for an assistant professor in environmental history with region and time open. An international cohort of twelve students has also entered our graduate program (read about them below).
Over the summer, we had several staff transitions. After two and a half years as HASC director, Amanda Maffett moved to the College of Engineering. Ryan Kelley, formerly our academic personnel and finance manager, has become the new HASC director, and Christopher Villaseñor has become our new personnel and finance manager. Finally, Ben Kersh replaced Aidan Montgomery as graduate program coordinator, as the latter is now our financial analyst. I am deeply grateful to our staff; as a department, we could not operate without them!
Please keep in touch, especially if you are an alumnus or alumna; we would love to hear from you and report on your successes!
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Stephen Miescher
Chair, Department of History
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The Department of History is welcoming 12 new graduate students, including three new historians of science and three new Asianists, several of whom have traveled great distances to be here.
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In 2024, our Graduate Student Lead TA Evan Axel Andersson received the UCSB Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award and TA Erin Trumble received the UCSB Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and the History Associates J. Bruce Anderson Memorial Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the Department of History.
In addition, two of our history department graduate students, Julia Desimas and Kristina Kelehan, participated in the Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative (AITLI) on campus during summer sessions.
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New Faculty
The Department of History is excited to welcome two new faculty members this academic year: Amanda Joyce Hall and Shaun Armstead.
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Professor Hall completed her Ph.D. in history and African American studies at Yale University in 2022, where her dissertation won the Sylvia Ardyn Boone prize for best dissertation in African and African American art and culture. She went on to a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University before coming to UC Santa Barbara in the winter of 2024.
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Professor Armstead completed her dissertation at Rutgers University-New Brunswick before receiving a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University in the Department of Africana Studies. Armstead's research has spanned the globe as she considers the personal relationships between the members of the National Council of Negro Women's relationships with various, similar groups in Africa and Asia.
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Faculty Spotlight: Jarett Henderson
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Dr. Jarett Henderson was the winner of Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring in 2023, an honor for those who have contributed greatly to undergraduate research at UC Santa Barbara. Growing up with a mother who is also a teacher, Dr. Henderson has always been keen on enabling students to succeed. When he first began teaching at Mount Royal University, he realized how competitive it was for undergraduate history students to get into graduate schools. Since then, he had been wanting to do more for them.
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Our 2024-2025 speaker series is taking shape, and while we don’t have all the details yet, below is our lineup as of publication. We will post confirmed details on the UCSB History website calendar and send out emails to history faculty and graduate students as well as UCSB History Associates members.
We invite you to read about our upcoming talks and become part of this exciting and informative partnership.
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History Associates Spotlight:
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Victoria Albert is the graduate student representative on the History Associates board. She is in her second year in the M.A./Ph.D. program in history at UC Santa Barbara. She is interested in 19th-century Britain, specifically the intersection between leisure history and crime history. She is currently working on a project about poaching (illegal hunting) and how it was depicted in the theater in the 1830s and 1840s.
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