Maya Maskarinec (PhD in Medieval History in 2015) has published a new book, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome, Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). ISBN 9781512827019. Maya is currently Associate Professor in the Van Hunnick Department of History at the University of Southern California.
Carla Pestana has been reelected as President of the Association of Caribbean Historians at the organization’s 56th annual meeting, held in Trinidad and Tobago. Carla Pestana (second from right) pictured with four former presidents of the Association of Caribbean Historians at the 56th annual meeting in Trinidad and Tobago.
Three undergraduate students in the UCLA Department of History have been awarded the 2025 Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity: Narod Arisian (left) Ellen Lu (right) Emily Rusting (middle) The Dean’s Prize recognizes outstanding student work submitted to UCLA’s Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase. This recognition highlights the strength and quality of undergraduate […]
Gregory Sattler, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA History Department, has co-authored a newly published article in Religions titled “Maritime Links Between China, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and Buddhist Monasteries in India (c. 11th–12th Centuries) in the Light of Two Fragmentary Inscribed Strips of Copper from Muara Jambi.” Co-authored with Wahyu Rizky Andhifani, Hedwi […]
Congratulations to graduate students, Safa Hamzeh (left) and Pin-Hua Chou (right), for being selected to receive a $5,000 Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship from the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS). Awards will support Safa’s project in France and Turkey, “The transformation of an Ottoman rural economy: French commercial expansion and the rise of çiftliks […]
Congratulations to Jared McBride, who was selected to receive the 2025 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award. This year undergraduates who are presenting their work during the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase were invited to nominate their mentor for a special award. This award honors the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who played a meaningful role in undergraduate […]
We are sad to announce that Professor Emeritus J. Arch Getty passed away on May 19, 2025. He enjoyed a 36-year career in the UC system, joining the faculty at UC Riverside in 1980 before he moved to UCLA in 2000 and retired in 2016. He was a very accomplished scholar and dedicated teacher, and […]
Stella Ghervas has been awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy — Iași Branch, through its A.D. Xenopol Institute of History, in recognition of her contribution to scholarship on South-Eastern Europe and Romanian and Moldavian historiography. The award ceremony will take place in Iași on June 5, 2025, where Professor Ghervas will […]
Rowan James, Robbie Hall, and Maya Mendoza have received 2025 UCLA Library Prizes for Undergraduate Research for papers written in Professor Minayo Nasiali’s capstone seminar, A Right to the City. Rowan James – “Space, Control, and Resistance: Tlatelolco and the Postcolonial Right to the City”First-place, International Collections category (not pictured) Robbie Hall – “The Role […]
