Professor Emeritus Carlo Ginzburg passed away on Wednesday morning. An Italian newspaper summarized his career: Carlo Ginzburg, the renowned Italian historian whose works have been translated all over the world, has […]
The Meyer And Renee Luskin Department of History and especially the African History field is very proud to share that our dear colleague emeritus professor Edward (“Ned”) Alpers was selected […]
Congratulations to Professor Derby! The Caribbean Studies Association awarded her new book, Bêtes Noires, the first price in the 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Awards, which recognize outstanding scholarship […]
The event recording is now available: Why History Matters: “U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here? featuring Kelly Lytle-Hernández Professor, UCLA Departments of History, African American Studies […]
Distinguished Professor Soraya de Chadarevian delivered the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Lecture with the title “Rendering the Molecular World: Where Science and Art Meet” at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich on […]
The William & Mary History Department selected Prof. Vivien Tejada as their inaugural Tyler Visiting Scholar, which includes a roundtable on the state of the field of Black and Indigenous history […]
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Meranze, who has been awarded the inaugural Distinguished Academic Senate Service Award for academic year 2025-26 by the UCLA Academic Senate. This inaugural award celebrates Senate Faculty who […]
Congratulations to Professor Marino. She was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) 2026 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award.The award “honors an historian whose book, book […]
Congratulations to Professor Jamie Kreiner, the Robert and Dororthy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, who is among a group of 223 distinguished scholars, scientists, and creative professionals from the U.S. […]
Professor Fernando Pérez Montesinos received an honorable mention in the 2026 Latin American Studies Association Environmental Awards for his book Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (Austin: UT […]
