A Warm Welcome to Our New Faculty!
Jamie Kreiner
Jamie Kreiner is a historian of the early Middle Ages who comes to UCLA from the University of Georgia. Her monographsThe Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, and The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom have received numerous prizes from multiple professional academic societies as well as coverage in various popular press outlets.
Meng Zhang
Meng Zhang was most recently an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University and has authored Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (University of Washington Press, 2021), winner of the Weyerhaeuser Book Prize of the Forest History Society. Her current project examines the interconnections between debt and Qing imperial formation by investigating private loans across ethnocultural and political boundaries at multiple frontiers of the Qing empire.
Vivien Tejada
Vivien Tejada is a scholar of Native American history with a focus on race, slavery, labor, and the law in the nineteenth century. Tejada is a recent alumna of Duke University and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and her dissertation, “Unfree Soil: Empire, Labor, and Coercion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1812-1861,” examines the relationship between bondage and conquest in the Upper Midwest. She is also working on a history of Native American engagements with U.S. citizenship between the American Revolution and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.
