News
- April 19, 2013
History Graduation Celebration 2013
Join fellow undergraduate History, German Studies, Jewish Studies, and Classical Studies majors and your faculty at the Second Annual History Graduation Celebration: Friday, June 14, 2013, 10:00-11:30 AM, Stevenson Event Center.
- May 23, 2012
Humanities lecturer named one of ‘Best 300 Professors’ by Princeton Review
German Studies lecturer Walter Campbell has been named one of The Best 300 Professors by the Princeton Review.
- March 15, 2012
Spring Spotlight: April 6 - April 14
The German studies program would like to extend a warm welcome to admitted students and their families. The following opportunities are available to help you learn more about our program.
- March 07, 2012
Peter Kenez to deliver annual UCSC Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture
A Holocaust survivor and native of Hungary, Peter Kenez is a scholar of the history of Russia and the former Soviet Union. On March 15, he will present the annual UCSC Emeriti Lecture on the topic: “The Coming of the Holocaust.”
- January 19, 2012
2011-2012 John Dizikes Teaching Award
Attention all history students! Do you know a faculty member who deserves to be recognized for their teaching efforts? If so, here is your opportunity to honor that faculty member by nominating them for the $3000 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities.
- July 15, 2011
Summer Orientation 2011
UC Santa Cruz Orientation Programs is where students begin their college careers and ensure their successful academic and social transition into the UC Santa Cruz community.
- November 15, 2010
"I can see Mexico from my house": The Role of El Paso, Texas, in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
Please join us on Wednesday, November 17, for the Stevenson College Fall Faculty Lecture "'I can see Mexico from my house': The Role of El Paso, Texas, in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)," to be given by Professor of History and Stevenson Fellow Mark Cioc.
- January 26, 2010
The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Species
Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties—all designed to protect the world's most commercially important migratory species—have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century. The scope of the book ranges from the African savannahs and the skies of North America to the frigid waters of the Antarctic.
- January 5, 2006
How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich
The Nazis created nature preserves, contemplated sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?
- January 31, 2005
History professor Mark Cioc named editor of environmental journal
The Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History have named history professor Mark Cioc as the new editor of their jointly published journal, Environmental History (EH).
- February 3, 2003
Time and the River
Historian Mark Cioc's new book is a chilling environmental tale about the Rhine, the world-famous river that, in less than 200 years of economic service to humans, was transformed from the "romantic Rhine" to "Europe's romantic sewer."
- August 10, 1998
Campus announces new major in German studies
Beginning this fall, students will be able to earn a degree in German studies. The major, which will be administered by the History Department, was recently approved by the Office of Planning and Programs.