Michael O’Sullivan (2019), Assistant Professor of History at University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, has been awarded the 2025 British Association for South Asian Studies book prize for No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800-1975 (Harvard University Press, 2023). Read the official announcement here.
Distinguished Professor David N. Myers will receive an honorary doctorate and deliver the graduation address at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s graduation ceremony in Los Angeles on May 19, 2025. Professor Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and serves as Director of both the Luskin Center […]
Vivian V. Hernandez, 3rd year PhD student, published a book review of Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 by Elizabeth O’Brien in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.
Why History Matters: L.A. Wildfires Past, Present and Future, featuring Hitoshi Abe, Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA ; Gerald Clarke, Jr. Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies and Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American Relations at University of California, Riverside; Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at […]
Congratulations to Guillermo Miranda, whose project “Remembering the United States-Mexico Beef: How Aftosa and Fiao Become Tools of Resisting the Industrialization of Artisanal Mexican Cheese” has been awarded second place in the UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Guillermo received the prize in the new category for Best project using resources from an international collection, along […]
Third-year history major Nour Rayess was recently featured in a UCLA Newsroom article highlighting her work documenting the voices and memories of postwar Lebanon. Rayess is chronicling the lasting impact of decades long unrest in the country through first-person stories.
Elizabeth O’Brien was awarded the American Association for The History of Medicine William H. Welch Medal for her book Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940. The Welch Medal is awarded to a book of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during the five calendar years preceding the award. It is […]
Congratulations to, Mindi Zhang, a PhD candidate in field of Chinese history, for being the inaugural recipient of the Jon A. Lindseth Fellowship of the Rare Book School. Each year this non-stipendiary fellowship recognizes the work of one scholar whose work focuses on comparative and/or global bibliography, among other topics. This annual award is given to […]
3rd year PhD student Shubhanga Pandey published a book review of Homicide Law in 19th-Century Nepal: A Study of the Mulukī Ains and Legal Documents by Rajan Khatiwoda in Studies in Nepali History and Society.
Sarah Stein has been awarded the Salo W. and Jeanette M. Senior Scholar Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience from the University of Vienna. Additional information can be found here: https://baronawards.univie.ac.at/senior-award/.
