Stella Ghervas delivers the Opening Public Lecture of the 2025–2026 academic year at the State University of Moldova on September 1, 2025. The title of the lecture is “Pacea în Europa: Lecțiile istoriei și provocările prezentului” (“Peace in Europe: Lessons of History and Challenges of the Present”). Link to the press release.
Congratulations to Professor and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair Jamie Kreiner, who was recently awarded the Max Planck Society and the Alexander Humboldt Foundation Medal. This prestigious medal is awarded each year and recognizes Professor Kreiner’s contributions to history at the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The award includes an endowment of 80,000 […]
Stella Ghervas delivered the 2025 Annual Lecture of the “A.D. Xenopol” Institute of History — The Romanian Academy, on June 7, 2025. The title of the lecture was “Liniștirea apelor. Pace și conflicte la Marea Neagră” (Calming the Waters: Peace and Conflicts in the Black Sea).Link to poster here | More information here.
History minor Hayley Labia has been awarded the 2025-26 Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) fellowship for her project, Silences of War: How Intergenerational Vietnam War Discourse Shapes Second-Generation Vietnamese American Politics.
A letter signed by more than 500 Jewish professors from a range of political views was sent to the UC Board of Regents criticizing the Trump Administration’s “misguided and punitive” demand for a $1-billion fine to settle claims over alleged antisemitism at UCLA. The letter insists that payment of the fine “will do nothing to […]
A recent report by David N. Myers and Ben Zdencanovic analyzes historical cases studies of universities being subjected to external political attempts to stifle free speech and university autonomy, and considers what these case studies have to tell us about the current conflict between universities and the Trump Administration in the U.S. You can read […]
Desmond Fonseca, a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the department of History, has recently published an article, “Underground Revolutionaries: The PAIGC, Leninism, and the Decolonization of Cabo Verde” in the African Studies Review. Desmond’s dissertation focuses on the history of the PAIGC in the decolonization of Cape Verde and the party’s place in the global […]
Congratulations to Luskin Center for History and Policy Postdoc Ben Zdencanovic, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of 20th Century US History at the University of Cambridge for the 2025-2026 academic year!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Katherine Marino, who received an Honorable Mention for the Pacific Coast Branch–American Historical Association’s (PCB-AHA) Robert W. Cherny Prize. The award recognizes the best article in labor and political history in the Pacific Historical Review or published elsewhere by a PCB-AHA member. Professor Marino was honored for her article, “Rosa Rayside […]
Congratulations to David Myers and Rose Campbell, whose work on the Luskin Center for History and Policy’s Then & Now podcast has resulted in more than 50,000 podcast downloads! You can explore the podcast archive and listen to episodes here: Then & Now Podcast.
