Announcements
Nancy Unger, History, $2,255 to support work on a project called "Diggs-Caminetti and the Mann Act: Test Case in Legislating America's Sexual Ethics." Professor Unger, a specialist in the Progressive Era in the United States, will be examining the 1913 case of Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, two Californians who abandoned their wives, ran off to Reno with two sorority sisters, and were prosecuted under the federal Mann Act that prohibited the interstate transport of females for immoral purposes. Crucial questions linger from the case about the extent to which the government should police personal morality.
Our departmental peer-reviewed student research journal, Historical Perspectives, has received the 2011 second-place prize in the national competition for Phi Alpha Theta's Gerald D. Nash History Journal Award. This award annually recognizes the top three journals produced by the society's undergraduate chapters nation-wide.
At Santa Clara faculty and students work together to explore history by focusing on the world's regions - Africa, Latin America, East Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean, Africa, West Asia and the Middle East, Europe, and the United States - in order to better understand the human condition, both in the past and in the present. Whether you are interested in the history of revolutions and social change, political, religious, and cultural institutions, diplomacy and warfare, migration and integration, sex and gender, religious, racial, and ethnic diversity, the history of ideas, global history, the environment, food, and sustainability, health, illness and medicine, criminality and deviance, consumption and trade, imperialism and colonial settlement, slavery, freedom and human rights, genocide and structural violence, history has something to offer the inquiring student. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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