Join us on Monday, October 14 from 3:30 to 6pm in PL-4005, when we will hold another 'Future History Teachers Information Panel.' If you plan to possibly teach in the short term or long term, or even if you just plan to work as a substitute while you plan your next move, this session will give you the benefits of meeting alumni teachers and regional administrators, as well as College of Education faculty, plus get a rundown of the CSET, credentials, sub work, hiring processes, etc. Pizza will be provided and the event will be Zoomed. We hope to see many of you there. (RSVP is not necessary at this stage, and you can come for all or any portion of the event.)
Dr. David Yaghoubian was interviewed by Press TV about the Sept 14, 2019 drone attack on Saudi Arabian oil fields and Abqaiq, a key oil-processing facility in the eastern part of the country. See the Inside CSUSB for further info: https://inside.csusb.edu/node/26326.
Welcome to all new and existing history majors as we launch in to our last quarter on academic quarters. We are pleased to also welcome Dr. Cary Barber and Dr. Diana Johnson who will be joining our department as tenure-track faculty this year. Dr. Barber received his B.A. in History and Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and his Ph.D. in History from Ohio State University in 2016. Last year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical Languages at Wake Forest University. He studies the convergence of politics, warfare, and death in the Roman Republic and its implications for social, cultural, and political history through demography. Dr. Johnson joins the history and ethnic studies departments from SUNY at Purchase, where she was previously an Assistant Professor. Originally from Washington State, Dr. Johnson received her BA from Eastern Washington University and her MA and PhD in History from the UC Davis, which she completed in June 2017. She is currently completing a book manuscript chronicling a multiracial history of labor activism, cultural nationalism, and transnational politics based in Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest during the 1970s and 1980s.We are looking forward to working with you all in what promises to be yet another amazing year.
Dr. Ryan Keating, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as an Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow at Cal State San Bernardino by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE). The IECE's program is 'an initiative that seeks to support faculty from across the University who are interested in integrating an entrepreneurial mindset and related approaches into their specific discipline through curriculum development, teaching, research, commercialization of research or outreach activities. The program is open to full-time faculty members from all academic areas on campus.' Dr. Keating will be working on a project that examines the history of business and entrepreneurship in the United States.
The Dr. Robert Blackey Endowed Student Award Fund has been increased to $50,000 thanks to contributions from Blackey, a professor emeritus from the history department, who has the distinction of being the first CSUSB faculty member to reach the milestone of 50 years of service. For more information see https://inside.csusb.edu/node/23546
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Long who won CSUSB’s 2018/19 Outstanding Service Award. He was surprised by President Morales and Provost McMahan and many others in his classroom on Thursday, May 9th with the announcement. His extensive service to the university and community over the past 13 years makes him well deserving of this award. See further details and the news announcement at https://inside.csusb.edu/node/22866.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Dr. Huacuja-Alonso as one of its 2019 ACLS Fellows for her work on “Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting and the Politics of Sound in Modern South Asia.” For more information, see 'Inside CSUSB' article which details the full details of this prestigious award. “Radio for the Millions” is a transnational history of radio broadcasting in Hindi and Urdu from 1920 to 1980. It argues that the medium of radio enabled listeners and broadcasters in South Asia to contest the cultural, linguistic, and political agendas of the British colonial administration and subsequent independent Indian and Pakistani governments. This means that Dr. Huacuja-Alonso will be working on this project for the 2019/20 AY and will not be teaching her courses for the year. We congratulate her on this tremendous award!
Richard Rothstein, a noted expert on American racial disparities, visited a Cal State San Bernardino African-American history class via video chat on April 22 to share his expertise and to discuss his New York Times bestselling book, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America.”For further information, see Inside CSUSB article for further information.
Dr. Kate Liszka led five CSUSB students -- Marmar Zakher, Jessica Howe, Maia Matheu, Evelyn Hildebrand. and Christopher Brito –-to Egypt to work on an archaeological expedition at Wadi el-Hudi in Winter 2019. During this study abroad, students worked on the archaeological expedition helping to make 3D models of 11 archaeological sites. They also travelled all over Egypt seeing dozens of other archaeological sites, trying new foods, and experience modern Egyptian culture.
Members of the Wadi el-Hudi expedition lived in Aswan and commuted into the Eastern Desert daily. Over the month, they took over 146,000 photos by attaching multiple cameras to poles to take dozens of pictures of every part of the archaeological sites from every angle. These photos are then put into a photogrammetric program called Agisoft Photoscan to create 3D models. Over the next few months, the Wadi el-Hudi team hopes to make some of these models available on their website, www.wadielhudi.com . Additionally, these 3D models can be turned into accurate 2D maps, which they will publish in their academic volume, An Atlas of Wadi el-Hudi.
In addition to creating the 3D models, the Expedition also discovered two new archaeological sites, and visited two other sites for the very first time. Site 13 was particularly impressive, having a perimeter of over 1.7 kilometers and being an enormous rock out crop filled with housing units in its natural cave-like crevices. The team determined that it was an Islamic gold processing settlement in Egypt.
CSUSB students also travelled all over Egypt, visiting the Giza Pyramids, Abydos, Aswan, Edfu, and especially Luxor. In Luxor, they toured the Valley of the Kings, Karnak Temple, Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir el-Bahri and many other places. Plus they got class credit for all of their work, travel, and cultural adventures. It was a once in a life time experience for them. Hopefully, Dr. Liszka will be able to take more students to Egypt in the coming years
Don't miss the China Lecture Series on Friday Apri 19, 2019How Not to Write History: Teaching Methodologoy throgh Aliens, Conspirancies, and the Chinese Discovery of America Dr Chelsea Zi WangTalk Description: The speaker will share her experience teaching what she calls pseudohistory—sensational arguments about the past that have been widely discredited by professional historians. This introductory undergraduate course is premised on the belief that each member of society can and should develop the skills needed to distinguish between reliable and unreliable accounts of the past. The talk will present examples of case studies, assignments, and discussion strategies adopted in the course, illustrating how the study of negative examples can help us define and analyze the basic elements of historical writing that make an argument trustworthy.
Information Session for Future History Teachers
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @ 3pm in PL 4005
Are you considering becoming a History teacher? Are you looking for insights and advice from people who were where you are just a few years ago, as well as from regional educators and educational administrators with a wealth of information to share? Don’t miss this lively information panel session. Our panelists include teachers in the surrounding region who have wisdom and great experiences to share with you – what they wish they’d known when they were in your shoes! Members of our faculty and representatives from the College of Education teaching credentials program will also join us. Be there and get some great advice about your professional future. RSVP is not required but would be appreciated to Professor Murray at jmurray@csusb.edu.
Drs. Yvette Saavedra and Isabel Huacuja Alsonso, Assistant Professors in the Department of History will be presenting their recent works on Feb 6th, 2019 at 2 -3 p.m. in PL-5005 as part of the CSUSB Women of Color in Academia panel. Dr. Saavedra will be presenting her recent book publication entitlted, Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity and Land Use in Southern California, 1771-1890. Dr. Huacuja Alonsos will be discussing her work, 'Radio, Citizenship and the 'Sound Standards' of Newly Independent India.' For more information contact Dr. Saavedra at yvette.saavedra@csusb.edu.
Prof. David Yaghoubian was interviewed on Jan 18th, 2019 by Press TV about the the recent detention and ill-treatment by US authorities of Press TV anchor, Marzieh Hashemi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfHRt60PaHE& feature=youtu.be
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A Community Engagement mini-grant offered by the Office of Community Engagement has funded a partnership between Dr. Cherstin Lyon, CSUSB history student researchers Frankie Patino, Chance Douglas, Cecia Gonzalez, Breana Benegas, the National Archives at Riverside, and both the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and the Save Our Chinatown Committee of Riverside. The project is designed to digitize the Chinese Exclusion Case Files in Riverside, and to partner with citizen archivists to make more records available to the public interested in Chinese immigration history.
The case files document the entry into the United States of Chinese aliens and the reentry of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry under the Chinese Exclusion Acts passed by Congress between 1882 and 1930, and repealed in 1943.
This project will make available hundreds of thousands of images in the National Archives Catalog that are rich in historical and genealogical information.
Series: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, 1899-1955. Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004. (National Archives Identifier 5831060) https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5831060
(Dec 14th, 2018)
CSUSB History Alum, Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, currently Assistant Professor at La Sierra University, attended the Western History Association annual meeting and was interviewed about her research about abortion in California by CSPAN. See
https://www.c-span.org/video/?453206-6/mid-20th-century-abortion-access
(December 10, 2018)
Dr. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, CSUSB alum was the guest speaker at the Meet the Fellows reception on November 27th, 2018 to honor the winners of this year's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. Dr. Gutierrez-Romine completed her BA in History at CSUSB in 2010, and completed a PhD at the University of Southern California in 2016. She is now is an Assistant Professor at La Sierra University. She spoke on the importance of 'Creating an Engaging and Meaningful Scholarly Community for Your Success.' The event recognized four students, three of whom are history students; Jasmine Colorado, Marmar Zakher, and Natassja Martin. Each student will be receiving financial assistance, research mentorship and graduate school application assistance which will provide them the platform to launch them into further graduate study in the humanities.
History in the Making: A Journal of History, CSUSB's student-run journal won Third Prize in the 2018 Gerald D. Nash graduate print journal national competition. The journal, which is made up of research papers, travel pieces, reviews, and various other articles from undergraduate and graduate students and alum, is an annual publication of CSUSB's Alpha Delta Nu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. This issue was overseen by faculty advisors Dr. Jeremy Murray and Dr. Tiffany F. Jones, and sponsored by the history department and Instructionally Related Programs at CSUSB.While the journal has won five previous awards in the undergraduate competition, due to the fact that many graduate students from the MA in Social Sciences participated in the journal, along with many undergraduate history students, this is the first year the journal was entered into the graduate level competition. We are exceptionally proud of the work completed by the two chief editors, Athahn Steinback and Lark Winner, and the dedication and diligence of the editorial board, Alexander Serrano, Andrew Richter, Byron Williams, Danny Cervantes, Eric Lowe, Hannah Norton, Jacqulyne Anton, Jasmine Colorado, Jordan Hammon, Kyle Burke, Martin Votruba, Samuel Briseno, and Sarah Slawson. Copy editors were Brittnie 'Bunny' Anglin, Jacqulyne Anton, Jasmine Colorado, Jordan Hammon, and Martin Vortruba. This year's journal contained a diverse array of articles and reviews that reflects the global focus of our program.
Articles
'Unconditional Surrender: The Rise of President Erdogan and the end of Kemalist Turkey' by Amelia Sullivan'An Exclusion and an Agreement: Comparing the Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Experiences, 1870–1942' by Eric Lowe'In Dependence: Haiti in the Period of Neoliberalism' by McKenzie Kelly'Present Tense: Indian Boarding School Resistance in the Twentieth-Century' by Casey Lee
Travels Through History'Summer in Berlin' by Esther Devai'An Ole Coyote’s Tale: Life is a Journey, not a Destination' by Brock Barrows'Israel' by Allegra Glaviano
Public History
'Manzanar: Lasting Remnants and Reflections on an American Injustice' by Rocio Gomez 'The Irish Nationalist: Motivations, Experiences and Consequences' by Sarah Slawson'Western-Constructed Narratives of Hawai’i' by Megan Medeiros
Sources in History
'Continuity at Luxor Temple' by Matthew Unruh 'From Female Moneylenders to Church Shares: The Coptic Village of Jeme' by Marmar Zakher 'American Populism During the Ninteenth-Century' by Andrew Richter
Reviews and Analysis
'Film Review: Alfred Hitchcock—The Films That Reflected American Society from 1940–1944' by Amy Stewart'Film Review: 1948 Creation and Catastrophe' by Melissa Sanford 'Video Game Review: Kingdom Come Deliverance' by Eric Lowe 'Sargent’s Mysterious Sitter: Objectification and Subjectivity in Madame X and Other Works By John Singer Sargent' by Silvia Lopez'Book Review: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment' by Randy Stuart'Book Review: Assassination of a Saint' by Jasmine Colorado'Exhibit Review: In|Dignity' by Maia Matheu 'Exhibit Review: Empress Dowager Cixi: Selections from the Summer Palace' by Hannah Norton
Congratulations to all involved! For the CSUSB's news article on the journal, see https://inside.csusb.edu/node/18771.For more information on the journal, see the journal website at https://csbs.csusb.edu/history-in-the-making.