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Latest News for September 28th, 2018

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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daisy Vargas

Congratulations to UCR History 2018 alum Daisy Vargas who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. Daisy completed her dissertation at Riverside in Spring 2018: "Mexican Religion on Trial: Race, Religion, and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands".
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New Book by UCR Alum Seth Archer: Sharks Upon the Land

Professor Seth Archer (UCR PhD 2015) traces the cultural impact of disease and health problems in the Hawaiian Islands from the arrival of Europeans to 1855. Colonialism in Hawaiʻi began with epidemiological incursions, and Archer argues that health remained the national crisis of the islands for more than a century. Introduced diseases resulted in reduced...
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UCR History hosts 2018 WHEATS Workshop, Oct 5-7, 2018

Graduate Students in the Department of History and other departments on campus will host the 2018 WHEATS (Workshop on the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science) at UCR. WHEATS is an intensive, rotating workshop for graduate students and recent PhDs who study the environment, agriculture, technology or science from a historical perspective. WHEATS began...