In accord with the mission of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara’s History Department strives to be a community of scholars in which students and faculty engage in vigorous inquiry to study and understand the past. This is the product of both interpretation of what others have written about the past and original scholarship that expands the boundaries of historical knowledge. Because history is what the present says about the past, it is continuously undergoing reinterpretation. Examination of the construction of history is therefore at the base of learning and scholarship within the department.
Through an integrated approach to teaching, learning, and scholarship, students will become informed about their own and other cultures in a global context, will develop broadly reflective and analytic skills, and will prepare themselves to be engaged citizens serving their societies.
Further, the History Department strives to further the goals of the College of Arts and Sciences and the University, especially through service to the University Core and the University Residential Learning Communities.
Submissions from 2024
The Communal Roots of Mexico’s Maquila Industry: Urbanization, Land, and Inequality in Ciudad Juárez, 1960–2000, Mateo J. Carrillo and Jonatan Pérez
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Nancy C. Unger
Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America, Nancy C. Unger
Submissions from 2023
Under the Gold Plating: Everyday Americans in the Gilded Age, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2022
Imperialism, Race Thinking, Gender, and Genocide, Amy E. Randall
Introduction: Gender and Genocide Studies, 2nd Edition, Amy E. Randall
American Women in Environmental History: An Illustrated Overview, Nancy Unger
The Supreme Court letting states mandate morals will end badly, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2021
Migrant Flows: Hydraulic Infrastructure, Agricultural Industrialization, and Environmental Change in Western Mexico, 1940–64, Mateo J. Carrillo
For the Father of a Newborn: Soviet Obstetrics and the Mobilization of Men as Medical Allies, Amy E. Randall
Changing The World, Empowering Themselves: Women’s Clubs in Environmental History, Nancy Unger
Russel Nye and the Unending Struggle to Keep Government Representative, Nancy Unger
The LGBTQ+ community: an underappreciated resource in environmental awareness and protection, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2020
‘How should slaves disappear?’: defending slavery in France, 1834–1848, Naomi J. Andrews
Ejidos, Urbanization, and the Production of Inequality in Formerly Agricultural Lands, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1975–2020, Leonardo Barleta, Mateo J. Carrillo, Zephyr Frank, and Erik Steiner
“Yankee, Why Does a Big Man like You Fear My Baby?”: The Politics of the Anti-Japanese Movement, 1908-1924, Sonia Gomez
Soviet and Russian Masculinities: Rethinking Soviet Fatherhood after Stalin and Renewing Virility in the Russian Nation under Putin, Amy E. Randall
The template for using white privilege to fight racism, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2019
The Romantic Socialist Origins of Humanitarianism, Naomi J. Andrews
Barren Lands and Barren Bodies In Navajo Nation: Indian Women WARN about Uranium, Genetics, and Sterilization, Marie Bolton and Nancy C. Unger
The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in Jim Crow Tokyo, Sonia Gomez
Gender and Sexuality, Amy E. Randall
Legacies of Belle La Follette’s Big Tent Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage, Nancy Unger
Personal, Political, and Professional: The Impact of Carolyn Merchant’s Life and Leadership, Nancy Unger
Belle La Follette’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage: Losing the Battle for Wisconsin, Winning the War for the Nation, Nancy C. Unger
Submissions from 2018
Selective Empathy: Workers, Colonial Subjects, and the Affective Politics of French Romantic Socialism, Naomi J. Andrews
Isolation Within Isolation: The Public and Personal Politics of Hospital Infection, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Victorian Plague Town: Quarantines, Hospitals, and the Political Birth of Isolation, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
The La Follette Dynasty, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2017
Gender and the Emergence of the Soviet 'Citizen-Consumer' in Comparative Perspective, Amy E. Randall
Adda F. Howie: "America’s Outstanding Woman Farmer", Nancy Unger
Tiny homes are all the rage. So why do so few communities welcome them?, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2016
For overcoming homophobia, California’s FAIR Education Act is a model, Nancy Unger
Role of Gay Bars in American History, Nancy Unger
That the Worst Shooting in US History Took Place in a Gay Bar Is Unsurprising, Nancy Unger
The GOP's Resilience Is Time-Tested, Nancy Unger
The Unexpected Belle La Follette, Nancy Unger
The Unexpected Belle La Follette: Progressive Model for 2016, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2015
Dode Akabi:A Reexamination of the Oral and Textual Narrative of a “Wicked” Female King, Harry N. K. Odamtten
Introduction: Gendering Genocide Studies, 1st Edition, Amy E. Randall
Even Judging Woodrow Wilson by the Standards of His Own Time, He Was Deplorably Racist, Nancy Unger
Suffragist Belle La Follette earned a spot on the $10 bill, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2014
Sites of Complaint and Complaining: Fever and Smallpox Hospitals in Late-Victorian London, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Gays and Lesbians in Early 20th Century America, Nancy Unger
Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2013
Breaking the Ties: French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Liberal Slave Emancipation, Naomi J. Andrews
Junípero Serra: From Mallorcan Preacher and Teacher to California Missionary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
"An Alteration in the human countenance": Inoculation, Vaccination, and the Face of Smallpox in the Age of Jenner, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Critical departures in the Practice of Pan-Africanism, Harry N. K. Odamtten
Morality, the Sacred and God in Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten
Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, Nancy Unger
Santa Clara University: Father Doesn’t Know Best in Health Care Debate, Nancy Unger
When Saving Earth was Women’s Work, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2012
They Bleed But They Don’t Die: Towards a Theoretical Canon On Ga-Adangbe Gender Studies, Harry N. K. Odamtten
Soviet Masculinities: Guest Editor's Introduction, Amy E. Randall
Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections; Social Justice, Nancy Unger
Hetch Hetchy Redux: An Effort to Turn Back the Environmental Clock, Nancy Unger
Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender as Useful Categories in Environmental History, Nancy Unger
Letting Go of "Mother Nature", Nancy Unger
Wisconsin's League Against Nuclear Dangers: The Power of Informed Citizenship, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2011
D'Eichthal and Urbain's Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: race, gender, and reconciliation after Slave Emancipation, Naomi Andrews
"The Universal Alliance of All Peoples": Romantic Socialists, the Human Family, and the Defense of Empire during the July Monarchy, 1830-1848, Naomi J. Andrews
From “Mothers of Humanity” to “Assisting the Emperor”: Gendered Belonging in the Wartime Rhetoric of Japanese Feminist Ichikawa Fusae, Barbara Molony
Hip-Hop Speaks, Hip-Life Answers: Global African Music, Harry N. K. Odamtten
"Abortion Will Deprive You of Happiness!"Soviet Reproductive Politics in the Post-Stalin Era, Amy E. Randall
The 'Right' to Control Her Own Body?: Soviet Women, Abortion and the State, Amy E. Randall
La Follette’s Autobiography: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Glorious, Nancy Unger
Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2010
Junípero Serra and the Santa Bárbara Channel, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
What They Brought: the Alta California Franciscans Before 1769, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Housing reconstruction after the catastrophe: the failed promise of San Francisco’s 1906 “earthquake cottages”, Marie Bolton and Nancy Unger
“Perambulating fever nests of our London streets”: Cabs, Omnibuses, Ambulances, and Other “Pest-Vehicles” in the Victorian Metropolis, Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Repealing the Ban on Abortion, Amy E. Randall
The Representation of Junípero Serra in California History, Robert M. Senkewicz
From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2009
The Significance of Things Fall Apart to African Historiography, Harry N. K. Odamtten
Women for a Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek to Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2008
Uncertainty on the Mission Frontier: Missionary Recruitment and Institutional Stability in Alta California in the 1790s, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Hiratsuka Haruko (Raichō), Barbara Molony
Modernity, Gender, and the Empire, Barbara Molony
Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections, Nancy Unger
The Role of Gender in Environmental Justice, Nancy Unger
Why McCain and His Running Mate Demand Special Scrutiny, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2007
Revolt at Mission San Gabriel, October 25, 1785: Judicial Proceedings and Related Documents, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Gender, Citizenship, and Dress in Modernizing Japan, Barbara Molony
It’s Gay Rights, Not Gay Genes, That Matter, Nancy Unger
Passive Citizenship is Not Enough, Nancy Unger
Pioneering women in Congress aren't guaranteed success, Nancy Unger
Teaching “Straight” Gay and Lesbian History, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2006
Introduction to Socialism's Muse, Naomi J. Andrews
After Past Scandals, Real Reforms, Nancy Unger
Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling, Nancy Unger
The ‘We Say What We Think’ Club: Rural Wisconsin Women and the Development of Environmental Ethics, Nancy Unger
When Principle May be the Best Policy, Nancy Unger
Submissions from 2005
Horseless Horses: Car Dealing and the Survival of Retail Bargaining, Steven M. Gelber
Introduction to Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony
The Quest for Women's Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, Barbara Molony
Why Should a Feminist Care about What Goes on Behind the Chrysanthemum Curtain? The Imperial Succession Issue as a Metaphor for Women’s Right, Barbara Molony
Women’s Rights and the Japanese State, 1880 to 1925, Barbara Molony
How to Rise from the Political Deathbed, Nancy Unger
