Six History graduate students have been awarded the 2024-25 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award. Congratulations to Sunny Chen, Sara Greenman-Spear, Sara Hussein, Rachel Kaufman, Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez, and Hunter Wimpey. Learn more about their research here.
Graduate student, Danielle Zhang, was awarded a 2024 Decorative Arts Trust’s Research Grant. Danielle’s research in Chinese history focuses on material culture of opera from the Ming to the twentieth century.
Sebouh Aslanian’s book, Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800,received the SHARP Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing. Read the full article here.
Elizabeth O’Brien’s book, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940, received the Best First Book in the History of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.
The UCLA Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History, Professor Sebouh Aslanian, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, has sponsored the translations of key works in microhistory into Western Armenian. Two studies by UCLA faculty, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller (1976) by renowned historian […]
Merrick Posnansky, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of History and Anthropology, passed away September 29, 2024, at the age of 93. He had been a faculty member at UCLA since 1977 following twenty years in Kenya, Uganda and Ghana where he conducted research and taught. Merrick’s interests included the archaeology of state formation and urban growth […]
UCLA History PhD alum, Dr. Alfred Flores (2015), has received an Honorable Mention for the Best First Book Award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) for his book, Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962. You can learn more about his award and work through the […]
We are sad to announce that Karen Wilson (Ph.D. 2011) passed away on August 19, 2024 from cancer. Karen received a Masters degree in Professional Writing from USC in 1978. Many years later, as her interest in Judaism grew, she returned to graduate school, first at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, earning a […]
Laura Gifford (PhD 2006) has been named editor-in-chief of Fortress Press, which has been a leading publisher of books in theology, biblical studies, and ethics since the early 1960s. Read the full article here.
This week an announcement of the transformative gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin was made to name the UCLA Department of History, making it the first endowed department in the UCLA College. We are very grateful to the Luskins for their friendship and long-standing support of our department. The $25 million gift is the largest ever given […]
