Graduate student Martin Adamian has been awarded the Armenian Studies Scholarship. This scholarship, provided by the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, was established to promote research in Armenian Studies, as well as its incorporation into wider disciplines.
Stella Ghervas, recipient of the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, will be delivering this year’s Laura Shannon Prize Lecture titled “The Peace Conundrum in European History” at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, November 2, 2023. For more, please refer to the abstract of her lecture available here.
Congratulations to Kevin Terraciano, who has been awarded the J. Franklin Jameson Award by the American Historical Association for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical primary sources for Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2021).
Anthony Vivian coauthored and coedited (with Michael Shally-Jensen) A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations, recently published by Bloomsbury Publishers, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- CLIO, 2023. The world Japanese language rights for this volume have been sold and it will be translated into Japanese. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-encyclopedia-of-lost-cities-and-civilizations-9781440873102/
Laura Talamante (Professor and Chair of the Department of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills) was named Presidential Outstanding Professor 2023. This award “honors individuals for their teaching, commitment to their desired field, and service to the campus and CSU system.” The Western Society for French History has also honored Laura, naming her the 2023 […]
Explore the intricate history of the southern German borderlands in Professor H. Glenn Penny’s latest essay, “Lessons from the Southern German Borderlands,” published in TRANSIT 14, no. 1 (2023). The essay delves into the region’s cultural multiplicities, linguistic nuances, and polycentrism often overlooked in conventional German histories. By examining five diverse museums, Penny challenges established […]
UCLA History Professor Benjamin Madley joins the UC School of Law, San Francisco as Visiting Professor of Indigenous Law for the 2023-2024 academic year. Collaborating with UC Law San Francisco Indigenous Law Center Director Jo Carrillo, Madley will research the legal landscape impacting California Indians. This interdisciplinary project, supported by UCSF Law alumni donor Joseph […]
In her thought-provoking essay, Stella Ghervas, Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles, emphasizes the importance of meticulously planning for peace immediately after the cessation of hostilities. Drawing on historical examples, she argues that victory in war is not the end of history; […]
Benjamin Madley has published the essay “California Unbound: Rethinking the ‘End’ of Unfree Labor in the Pacific World and Beyond” with Amherst College Professor Edward D. Melillo in California History. An enduring focus on African American chattel slavery, the U.S. Civil War, and sharecropping in the South has failed to collectively address the varieties of […]
We’re excited to share that Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, an esteemed historian, is now part of Rice University’s History Department and Center for African and African American Studies as an Assistant Professor in African History. Nana Osei-Opare was an Andrew Mellon Fellow for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton (2022-2023), and will […]
