Graduate student Alex Levine just had his first article published in the history journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft (History and Society). The article titled “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” […]
On March 10, 2026, Benjamin Madley delivered the annual Robert Harris Memorial Lecture at Sonoma State University as part of the 43rd Annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. The title […]
Professor Emeritus James Wilkie passed away peacefully in Westwood on Friday morning, March 20, at the age of 90. James Wilkie was born in Idaho and received his BA from […]
Graduate student Lily Hindy just had an article published in The Conversation drawing parallels between recent Syrian declarations of Kurdish rights and Iraq’s 1970 March Manifesto, which fell apart within […]
Congratulations to Daniel P. Gámez, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, who has been hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis starting July 1, […]
Caroline Ford will deliver the Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and World, entitled “The Shape of Water: An Environmental History of the City of Light,” on 2 April 2026 […]
Madonna Ghazal’s dissertation, “Gender, Property, and Kinship in Late Ottoman Beirut,” was awarded the 2025 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History. Committee members praised the […]
Tania Bride’s dissertation, “Entangled Creatures: Intercultural Dialogues Over Human-Animal Transformation in the New Spain, 1521–1770,” was awarded the 2025 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on the American West, California, […]
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies awarded Professor Vivien Tejeda’s dissertation “Unfree Soil: Empire, Labor, and Coercion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1812-1861,” the 2026 MCEAS Dissertation Prize. […]
Professor Emerita Ellen Dubois will be speaking on March 1 at 3 pm at Diesel Books in Brentwood on her new book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a Revolutionary Life (to be published March 3 […]
