Debora Silverman’s publications on “Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness” were selected as the feature for the weekly JStor review, and her publications were singled out by Martin Filler in the […]
David Myers’ book, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (co-authored with Nomi Stolzenberg) was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish […]
Caroline Ford published an article titled, “The Environmental Transformation of Empty Space: From Desert to Forest in the Landes of Southwestern France” in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2023). This article […]
Ph.D. student Michael Buse just had an article published in the Pacific Historical Review entitled “The Fort Ross Story: Gertrude Atherton, the Native Sons of the Golden West, and the Construction of […]
Rachel Kaufman published a review of Peter Cole’s poetry book, Draw Me After, in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Dr. Max Daniel was awarded the 2022 Hundley Prize by the Department of History for his dissertation, “The Sephardi Century: A Relational History of a Los Angeles Community, 1893-1992,” a […]
Dr. Fredrick Walter Lorenz was awarded the 2022 Lifka Prize by the Department of History for his innovative dissertation “An Empire of Frontiers: Between Migrant and State in the Late […]
Signed Statement From UCLA History Department Faculty
Yiming Ha and Rebecca Waxman were each awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, two of the seven awards given to UCLA History graduate students. Read the full […]
For over a generation the history of the American West has been described by scholars as one of violence, including genocide, ethnic-cleansing, and settler colonialism. While it replaced an older […]
