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  • Michael O'Sullivan '10

    Michael O’Sullivan '10 (History), is a Ph.D. candidate in History at UCLA. Read in his own words how his time as a history major at SCU shaped his exciting career path.

  • A New Chapter Begins

    Héctor Navarro '17 answered the call to teaching after working for two years at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

  • Pioneering Women

    Professor Nancy Unger featured in a PBS short on Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress

  • Matthew Newsom Kerr: Two Recent Publications

    Historical context of the testing regimes seeking to identify sick and asymptomatic carriers of the Covid virus and visible signs/claims/questions of immunity (like mask-wearing today)

  • Eduardo Cuevas '16

    Moved to New York in August 2020 to attend journalism school at Columbia University

  • Reimagining a City

    History alum Neil Datar and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics team up to help the city of Santa Clara become more equitable and inclusive.

  • Welcome back to Mateo J. Carrillo

    The Department is delighted to announce that Mateo J. Carrillo, a proud member of the History class of 2002, is our new Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history!

  • New Student Internships!

    The department is using some of the funds from our generous donors to create a new History Internship Program (HIP), paid summer internships for history students. This past summer three of our students gained invaluable experience interning with the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco.

  • Social Media Memes

    Some of Professor Meg Gudgeirrson’s immense popularity with our students stems from her willingness to incorporate social media and other non-traditional forms of communication into her classes. Students in her class on the Cold War created memes, reviewed them, and placed them in the context of the course material.

  • Shared Memories

    The History Department mourns the loss of Tim O’Keefe, a much-beloved faculty member. We were heartened, however, by the flood of condolence notes that came to the office and were forwarded to the (very grateful) O’Keefe family.

  • History Has Its Eyes on SCU

    SCU’s “Historical Perspectives” has won the nation’s top undergraduate history journal prize two years in a row. Is a third win around the corner?

  • Faculty News Winter 2024

    Updates from Mateo Carrillo, Sonia Gomez, Marwan Hanania, Harry Odamtten, Amy Randall, Nancy Unger, and Gregory Wigmore