Madonna Ghazal’s dissertation, “Gender, Property, and Kinship in Late Ottoman Beirut,” was awarded the 2025 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History. Committee members praised the […]
Tania Bride’s dissertation, “Entangled Creatures: Intercultural Dialogues Over Human-Animal Transformation in the New Spain, 1521–1770,” was awarded the 2025 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on the American West, California, […]
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies awarded Professor Vivien Tejeda’s dissertation “Unfree Soil: Empire, Labor, and Coercion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1812-1861,” the 2026 MCEAS Dissertation Prize. […]
Professor Emerita Ellen Dubois will be speaking on March 1 at 3 pm at Diesel Books in Brentwood on her new book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a Revolutionary Life (to be published March 3 […]
On February 10, 2026 Jared McBride gave the Sylvia Sucher Memorial Lecture at Sonoma State University as part the 43rd Annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. The title of the […]
Congratulations to Ziad M. Abu-Rish (PhD 2014), currently Associate Professor of History at Bard College, whose book The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence, has […]
The latest issue of the Italian history journal Quaderni Storici is devoted to reviews and comments on emeritus Distinguished Research Professor David Warren Sabean’s A Delicate Choreography: Kinship Practices and […]
Congratulations to Soraya de Chadarevian, who began her two-year term as President of the History of Science Society. this month. Here is the link to the announcement: https://hssonline.org/news/718718/Soraya-de-Chadarevian-Becomes-HSS-President.htm
Vivian V. Hernandez, 4th year PhD candidate, was awarded a Silas Palmer Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a CDIP Doctoral Education Support Grant. Both awards will […]
Congratulations to Jacob Green, who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California San Francisco’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Jacob filed his dissertation with the UCLA […]
