The Militarized Campus Arboretum is a research and teaching project that explores the histories of everyday militarism “hidden in plain sight” at the University of California, Davis. Our project aims to teach UC Davis campus affiliates, Davis community members, and visitors about the multiple militarized legacies of UC Davis and the land grant university as a whole. The research project was started to explore the use of UC Davis campus facilities as a training school for the Western Signal Corps School during World War II (1943-1944), but has expanded to analyze how US imperialism overseas is intimately linked to domestic policing and settler colonialism. 

Visit the tour's website at https://milarb.sf.ucdavis.edu/ 

Related Publications

Kirk, Gabi, and Robert Moeller. 2020. “Campus ‘Tours of Duty’: Unsettling Everyday Militarisms through Walking.” Historical Geography 48: 40-74.

Kirk, Gabi, and Robert Moeller. 2020. “The Militarized Campus Arboretum.” Society and Space.