Carla Pestana will give the 2025 William & Lois Matthews Samual Pepys Lecture on “Striving for Expertise.” The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 1st from 6-7 PM at the […]
Congratulations to Amanda Martinez, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapell Hill. Amanda earned her PhD from UCLA in 2022.
Mindi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate in the UCLA Department of History, published an article titled Organizing the New World of Print: Library Management and Cultural Business at the Commercial Press, ca. […]
We are sad to announce that Tom Lifka, retired UCLA Associate Vice Chancellor for Students Affairs and adjunct professor, philanthropist and friend to the UCLA Department of History, passed away […]
Congratulations to Yiming Ha (right), who has been awarded the 2024 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History for ” Taming the Army: Military […]
The UCLA History Department congratulates Barry Goldenberg, Class of 2011 alumnus and recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award for Top Honors Thesis, on the release of his new book, Strength […]
Professor Elizabeth O’Brien’s book, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940, received the 2023 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, for a first book that deals […]
The Asia Pacific Center in the International Institute at UCLA has awarded Pin-Hua Chou, a graduate student in European history, a J. Yang Scholarship for 2025. This scholarship supports talented […]
Gregory Sattler, a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, has published an article titled “Zhedong Sea Merchants and the China-Japan Trade, ca. 800–1000 CE” in the Journal of Song-Yuan […]
Second-year doctoral student in European history, Pin-Hua Chou, has received several accolades this year. She was awarded the Peter Baldwin Fellowship at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles and the […]
