Congratulations to Beatriz Cruz López for winning the Francisco Javier Clavijero Prize for the best doctoral thesis in History/Ethnohistory from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico […]
Rachel Kaufman’s article, “A Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive” (published in Colonial Latin American Review 33, no. 3 (2024): 347-376), received the CLAH […]
We are saddened to announced that James B. “Jim” Wolf passed away on August 23, 2025 at the age of 92. Jim earned his BA from Oberlin College and his […]
UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Anne Napatalung has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She earned her Ph.D. in […]
Professor Emeritus Thomas Hines was recently featured in the UCLA Magazine in an article written by History major Mary Melton ’91. The article “The Course That Changed Everything” highlights how […]
As historians, we are well aware of periods in the United States and abroad in which illegal attacks on students, scholars, and universities became a tool of political manipulation and […]
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A team of undergraduate researchers working under the direction of Professor McBride has made a groundbreaking archival discovery that is helping to reshape national debate over Canada’s postwar history. In […]
On March 25, 2025 Professor Emeritus Christopher Ehret sadly passed away. Chris joined the History Department in 1968 and rose through the ranks to Professor until his retirement as Distinguished […]
On March 23, 2025, Professor Emeritus John Laslett passed away at the age of 91. He held a BA and a PhD from Oxford University in England, and he taught […]
