Kelly McCormick (2019 PhD Candidate)
Congratulations to Kelly McCormick, who will join the History Department at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. You can read Kelly’s introduction to UBC […]
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Obituary for Professor Peter Reill
Peter Reill, Professor Emeritus of History, former department chair, and former Director of the Clark Library and the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies at UCLA, passed away suddenly […]
Masayoshi Yamada (2022 PhD Candidate)
Masayoshi has contributed a book chapter, entitled “You’re My Pin-up Girl!: The Politics of Jazz Fandom and the Making of Mary Lou Williams in the 1940s,” to an edited collection, […]
Theodore M. Porter Awarded 2019 Cheiron Book Prize
Theodore M. Porter was awarded the 2019 Cheiron Book Prize by The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences for his book Genetics in the Madhouse: The […]
Peter Chesney (2021 PhD Candidate)
L.A. Review of Books invited Peter to assess a landscape architecture history, the Spoils of Dust, by USC’s Alexander Robinson. He also presented pieces of his dissertation chapters, “Car Talk” […]
Geoffrey Robinson Awarded the 2019 Raphael Lemkin Book Award by the Institute for the Study of Genocide
Congratulations to Geoffrey Robinson who has won the 2019 Raphael Lemkin Book Award by the Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) for his book The Killing Season: A History […]
Carla Pestana Elected to American Historical Association Nominating Committee
Carla Pestana was elected to a three-year stint on the AHA nominating committee. The committee makes nominations for all elective posts in the AHA, oversees the counting of ballots, and reports […]
Madina Thiam Featured in Le Monda Documentary on Cheikh Anta Diop
Graduate student Madina Thiam is featured in a Le Monde documentary on the late Pan-African scholar Cheikh Anta Diop.To watch the documentary (in French), click here.
Max Flomen (PhD 2018)
Max Flomen has been appointed an Assistant Professor of pre-1800 North American History in the West Virginia University History Department. He wishes to thank his colleagues and friends at UCLA […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam to Deliver Inaugural Address for Congress of the Society of Jewish Studies
Sanjay will deliver the plenary and inaugural address of the Premier congrès de la Société des études juives on June 30th in Strasbourg. The talk is entitled “Juifs et Nouveaux-Chrétiens dans le […]
