UCLA Department of History Receives Transformative Gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin

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This week an announcement of the transformative gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin was made to name the UCLA Department of History, making it the first endowed department in the UCLA College. We are very grateful to the Luskins for their friendship and long-standing support of our department.

The $25 million gift is the largest ever given to the Division of Social Sciences. The testamentary bequest will fund faculty recruitment, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate programs. It will also enable us to expand our research and public-facing activities in the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, the Public History Initiative, and our new “Making History in LA” initiative based in the UCLA Downtown LA building on Spring Street.

Professor David Myers also spoke with Meyer Luskin about the future of history in an article posted by the UCLA Newsroom here. We plan to celebrate the endowment in the coming year with a conference on the Future of History. Thanks to the Luskins, the future of UCLA History looks a lot brighter.