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Why History Matters: America’s Gun Problem

Why History Matters: America’s Gun Problem featuring Brian DeLay, Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at UC Berkeley; Jennifer A. Wagman, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Adam Winkler, Connell Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and moderated […]

Congratulations to Undergraduate History Students and Leve Center Fellows, Gillian Smith, Michaela Esposito, and Maia Gelerter, for Contributions to Holocaust Memoir

Congratulations to Undergraduate History students and Leve Center Fellows, Gillian Smith, Michaela Esposito, and Maia Gelerter, for their contributions as student researchers for the book, With Many Miracles: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival in Belgium, by Israel Cappell and co-edited by Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Janine Zacharia, and Netty Gross. The UCLA Leve Center for Jewish […]

Professor Stella Ghervas Featured in UCLA College Interview

  Professor Stella Ghervas recently participated in a Q&A session titled “Pondering Peace.” The interview delves into Professor Ghervas’s insights on various aspects of peace, history, and more. Read the interview on the UCLA College website for valuable insights from Professor Ghervas.

Stella Ghervas wins Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies

Congratulations to Stella Ghervas, the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, who received the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame for her book, “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union.” Read more about this achievement on the Nanovic […]

Congratulations to Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellows

Congratulations to History PhD candidates Jeanette Charles and Lily Hindy, who are among the twelve UCLA graduate students awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research fellowship! Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hays program allows students to conduct international research abroad. Jeanette Charles will conduct fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria to understand contemporary Afro-Venezuelan […]

Mathew Luckett (PhD 2014) featured in Los Angeles Times

Mathew Luckett (PhD 2014), currently Director and Professor, HUX MA Program, Cal State University Dominguez Hills, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article about the Master’s program in humanities that he runs for incarcerated students: http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=ca1430bd-1da0-4f21-9ba6-cc4ed29efa1a