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Obituary for Professor Peter Reill
August 28, 2019
Peter Reill, Professor Emeritus of History, former department chair, and former Director of the...
Carla Pestana Elected to American Historical Association Nominating Committee
July 29, 2019
Carla Pestana was elected to a three-year stint on the AHA nominating committee. The committee...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam to Deliver Inaugural Address for Congress of the Society of Jewish Studies
June 20, 2019
Sanjay will deliver the plenary and inaugural address of the Premier congrès de la Société des...
Article about Gary Nash and National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) Appears in UCLA Magazine
June 4, 2019
An article about Gary Nash and the establishment of the National Center for History in the Schools...

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Events
Vikram Tamboli, “Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
Thursday, October 10
William Sewell, "A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France"
Thursday, October 10
Greg Woolf, "Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome"
Tuesday, October 15
Jaimie D. Crumley - "Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and The Politics of Black Women’s Liberation"
Friday, October 18
127th Faculty Research Lecture by Professor Brenda Stevenson
Wednesday, October 30
127th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture - Brenda Stevenson, "Gifts of the Storyteller"
Wednesday, October 30
Featured Publications
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
Canons and Values: Ancient to Modern
Jerusalem in the Alps: The Sacro Monte of Varallo and the Sanctuaries of North-Western Italy
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
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Faculty Honors
Kelly Lytle Hernández Awarded 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
September 25, 2019
Kelly Lytle Hernández has been selected as one of the 26 MacArthur Fellows for 2019, unofficially known as the MacArthur Genius Award....
Theodore M. Porter Awarded 2019 Cheiron Book Prize
August 12, 2019
Theodore M. Porter was awarded the Cheiron (The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) 2019 Book...
Alumni Highlights
Phoebe Musandu (PhD 2013)
October 8, 2019
The American Historical Association has recently announced that Phoebe Musandu has won the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history...
Max Flomen (PhD 2018)
June 20, 2019
Max Flomen has been appointed an Assistant Professor of pre-1800 North American History in the West Virginia University History Department...
Student Highlights
David Spielman Awarded Fulbright-Hays Grant
October 8, 2019
Dawit (David) Spielman has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant from the Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program of the Department of...
Xiang Chi (2019 PhD Candidate)
September 25, 2019
Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies: Pre-dissertation-Summer Travel Grant, Xiang Chi did an archival trip in...