Department of History, UC Berkeley

Assistant Professor of History of Technology Position Now Open at UC Berkeley

September 3, 2025
Final date: Friday, Oct 10, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee

The University of California at Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor in the Department of History.

The Department of History is one of the largest and most distinguished units in UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Science. The Department's faculty ranges across virtually all of the major geographical and chronological fields recognized by the discipline...

The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

Date/Time
Thursday
4 Apr 2019
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location
142 Dwinelle Hall

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Stefanos Geroulanos
Associate Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as...

Global History Seminar: Chile’s Torres del Paine

Date/Time
Monday
18 Apr 2022
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Location: 223 Moses Hall

Please join us for our next Global History Seminar. We will discuss a paper by Professor Emily Wakild, drawn from her book-in-progress, Fragile and Stable: How Science Shaped Conservation Landscapes in Patagonia and Amazonia. The paper that we will discuss in the seminar is titled “Chile’s Torres del Paine: Processes of...

Authors Meet Critics: How the Clinic Made Gender

Date/Time
Wednesday
9 Nov 2022
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Book Talk

Register to join us on November 9 for an “Authors Meet Critics” panel on How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Sandra Eder, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Eder will be...

Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, “Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity”

Date/Time
Tuesday
17 Oct 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
Social Science Matrix

Event Type
Colloquium

Massimo Mazzotti
CSTMS Faculty Affiliate and Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History

Please join us in person on October 17, 2023 at 3:30pm for an Authors...

The Social History of Truth

Date/Time
Thursday
27 Feb 2020
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Workshop

This international conference/workshop groups together scholars of different fields in the Humanities (Classics, Egyptology and History of Science) who will discuss the central role that the concept of truth has played in the ancient and the modern world and in relation to...

DISCO Summit 2024

Date/Time
Friday - Saturday
14 Jun - 15 Jun 2024

Location
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

Registration

Registration is required to attend the DISCO Summit in-person. The deadline for in-person registration is Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Due to limited space in the venue, in-person registration will close once we reach our maximum capacity.

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A Return to Freud? New Histories of Psychoanalysis

Date/Time
Thursday - Friday
20 Mar - 21 Mar 2025

Location
Maude Fife, Wheeler Hall

Event Type
Conference

Hannah Zeavin
Assistant Professor & CSTMS Faculty Affiliate, UC Berkeley

Ramsey McGlazer
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley...

Remembering John L. Heilbron (1934 – 2023)

Date/Time
Thursday
20 Mar 2025
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Special Event

John Heilbron, who passed away on November 5, 2023, in Padua, Italy, was an eminent and internationally acclaimed scholar of the history of the physical sciences, a leader in the development of the history of science at UC Berkeley and as an academic discipline, and a former Vice Chancellor of the University of California,...