Álvaro Huerta (BA, 2003), spotlighted in UCLA Magazine
History alumnus Álvaro Huerta (’03), was spotlighted in an article in UCLA Magazine: “The Bruins Who Come Back”.
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Professor Emeritus Lauro Martines Passes Away
Professor Emeritus Lauro Martines passed away last weekend in London at the age of 99. He was born in Chicago, served in the U.S. Army from 1945-47, and was educated […]
Professor Emeritus Carlo Ginzburg Passes Away
Professor Emeritus Carlo Ginzburg passed away on Wednesday morning. An Italian newspaper summarized his career: Carlo Ginzburg, the renowned Italian historian whose works have been translated all over the world, has […]
Emeritus Professor Alpers to Receive Distinguished Africanist Award
The Meyer And Renee Luskin Department of History and especially the African History field is very proud to share that our dear colleague emeritus professor Edward (“Ned”) Alpers was selected […]
Professor Derby Receives 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Award
Congratulations to Professor Derby! The Caribbean Studies Association awarded her new book, Bêtes Noires, the first price in the 2026 Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Book Awards, which recognize outstanding scholarship […]
Why History Matters – U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here?
The event recording is now available: Why History Matters: “U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here? featuring Kelly Lytle-Hernández Professor, UCLA Departments of History, African American Studies […]
Soraya de Chadarevian delivered the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Lecture
Distinguished Professor Soraya de Chadarevian delivered the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Lecture with the title “Rendering the Molecular World: Where Science and Art Meet” at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich on […]
Vivien Tejada Selected as Inaugural Tyler Visiting Scholar at William & Mary
The William & Mary History Department selected Prof. Vivien Tejada as their inaugural Tyler Visiting Scholar, which includes a roundtable on the state of the field of Black and Indigenous history […]
Michael Meranze Awarded Inaugural Distinguished Academic Senate Service Award
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Meranze, who has been awarded the inaugural Distinguished Academic Senate Service Award for academic year 2025-26 by the UCLA Academic Senate. This inaugural award celebrates Senate Faculty who […]
Katherine Marino Receives Honorable Mention for WAWH Kanner Award (2026)
Congratulations to Professor Marino. She was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) 2026 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award.The award “honors an historian whose book, book […]
