Tawny Paul Awarded the Ben Snow Prize
Tawny Paul was awarded the Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) for her recent book The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. […]
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Susan Rosenfeld’s Dissertation Received the Norris Hundley Prize
Susan Rosenfeld’s dissertation, “Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia to Lagos, 1850-1900,” received the Norris Hundley Prize for the best dissertation in the history of […]
Sohaib Baig’s Dissertation Won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize
Sohaib Baig’s dissertation, “Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of Hadith: Islamic Legal Authority between South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, 16th – 20th Centuries,” won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be discussing Vasco da Gama at the Digital Museum
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be discussing Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and the first European to travel to India by sea on Monday 11/16, at 10 AM PST, at the “Digital Museum”.Registration Link
Professor Emeritus Juan Gómez-Quiñones Passed Away
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Research Professor Emeritus, passed away on November 11, 2020. A noted scholar of Chicano/a history, Juan earned his PhD in history at UCLA and taught in the department […]
Brian J Griffith Published in Contemporary European History
Brian J Griffith (the Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History) has published an article “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937” in Contemporary European History. The […]
Madina Thiam’s Articles in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Madina Thiam (PhD candidate, African history) has two articles out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History: “Women in Mali” “The History of Mali: Connectivity and State Formation since […]
Nana Osei-Opare to Give a Presentation, “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism”
Thursday, November 12 | 12:00 pm PT | Via Zoom For more information about this event, click here. To register, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IM-O0FQoQXS0Iy4F2xh0Vw From Professor Osei-Opare: I will highlight the value and importance of postcolonial […]
Amir Alexander Lectures in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series
Amir Alexander gave a public lecture in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series, entitled “How Mathematics Shapes our World, and our Values”: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/distinctive-voices/VIDEO: How Mathematics Shapes […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam Will Give a Virtual Talk at the Courtauld Institute
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be giving a virtual talk, “After Vienna, 1683: A Portuguese Prophet of Ottoman Doom” at the Courtauld Institute on November 4: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-after-vienna-1683-a-portuguese-prophet-of-ottoman-doomThe failed Ottoman siege of Vienna between […]
