Professor Emeritus James Wilkie Passes Away
Professor Emeritus James Wilkie passed away peacefully in Westwood on Friday morning, March 20, at the age of 90. James Wilkie was born in Idaho and received his BA from […]
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Lily Hindy Publishes Article in The Conversation
Graduate student Lily Hindy just had an article published in The Conversation drawing parallels between recent Syrian declarations of Kurdish rights and Iraq’s 1970 March Manifesto, which fell apart within […]
Daniel P. Gámez hired as Assistant Professor at UC Davis
Congratulations to Daniel P. Gámez, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, who has been hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis starting July 1, […]
Caroline Ford to Give Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture at Harvard University
Caroline Ford will deliver the Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and World, entitled “The Shape of Water: An Environmental History of the City of Light,” on 2 April 2026 […]
Madonna Aoun Ghazal (PhD 2024) Awarded 2025 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize
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 (PhD 2024) Awarded 2025 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize
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, […]
“Unfree Soil” by Vivien Tejade Wins 2026 MCEAS Dissertation Prize
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 Publishes New Book on Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 […]
Jared McBride Gave Sylvia Sucher Memorial Lecture at Sonoma State University
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 […]
Ziad Abu-Rish Publishes New Book
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 […]
