A Virtual Talk by Alan Liu on “The Sense of History in the Digital Age”
In conjunction with my ongoing graduate seminar on digital history (HIST 201DH: Theories and Practices of Digital History) at UC Santa Barbara, I recently organized […]
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“Food Fights,” Zapruder World 5 (2019)
I recently co-edited a special issue of the Open Access public-engagement journal, Zapruder World, on the global history of food and social conflicts. Spanning two millennia, […]
Where Monsters Are Born
Since late-September 2018, I have been living in Rome on a Fulbright Research Grant completing my dissertation research and manuscript. As soon as my family […]
UCSB’s The Current on My Interwar Crisis Course
Recently, I sat down with Jim Logan at University of California, Santa Barbara’s news and announcements blog, The Current, to discuss my current summer course, […]
Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939
Today I begin teaching my summer course “Interwar Crisis: Europe, 1918-1939” at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB History Department). During the next six weeks, my students […]
Digital Projects
Completed or Ongoing Projects Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict (ISSN: 2385-1171) Zapruder World is both an Open Access History […]
Theories and Practices of Digital History
Course Description What is Digital History? In answering this question, this course will examine the emergence of the “digital age” over the past thirty years […]
The New Fascism Syllabus
In the aftermath of the United States’ 2016 presidential election, both scholars and citizens began asking themselves “How could this happen?!” How could someone like […]
Publications
View a list of my recent publications, including peer-reviewed articles, editorships, public engagement pieces, and more.
“The Whole World Is Our Homeland,” Zapruder World 1 (2014)
I recently joined an international group of scholars and activists to collaboratively develop an Open Access History journal titled Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History […]