Event co-sponsored by the UCSB Department of History

CCWS is excited to announce that Prof. John Sbardellati of Waterloo University in Ontario--who received his PhD in history at UCSB in 2006--will be talking about his new book, J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War. Prof. Sbardellati's groundbreaking book is the first to fully chronicle Hoover's sweeping investigation into supposed anti-Americanism in the motion picture industry in the 1940s and 50s. The event is free and open to the public. A reception, with delicious refreshments, will follow Prof. Sbardellati's presentation. 

John Sbardellati is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War, published by Cornell University Press in 2012. His articles have appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Film History, and Cold War History. A native Californian, Dr. Sbardellati received his PhD in history at UCSB in 2006. He is a proud alumnus of UCSB's Center for Cold War Studies and International History.