Congratulations to Matthijs Tieleman, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Early American History at Illinois State University. Matthijs earned his PhD from UCLA in 2021.
Congratulations to Carla Pestana, who has been appointed Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library for Academic Year 2024-25.
History Commencement speaker Teo Ruiz was featured in a story on the UCLA Humanities Division website.
We, the undersigned faculty members of the History Department, support amnesty for student protesters. On Friday, May 24, 2024 UCLA issued notices of disciplinary proceedings to every UCLA student arrested during the University’s disbandment of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment. We members of the History Department protest this action and urge the University to spare students […]
Amir Alexander’s recent book, Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, A Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America (University of Chicago Press, 2024) topped the Wall Street Journal’s list of recommended books for the summer.
Marjan Wardaki will be moving from her current position as research fellow at Yale’s Macmillan Center to a position as assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Nefertiti Takla has been appointed assistant professor at Georgetown University and will be moving from her current tenure-track position at Manhattan College.
