Congratulations to History Undergraduate Student Alexandria Gilligan who has won a 2024 UCLA Undergraduate Research prize for her paper, “Little Bronze Tokyo”: Housing and Employment for Black & Japanese Americans […]
Professor Andrew Apter will give the 2024 Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures at the Frobenius Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt, on “Historical Ethnography and the Ritual Archive.” Event Flyer
Department Chair and Professor Kevin Terraciano’s Florentine Codex project was recently featured in an online Winter 2024 edition of the UCLA Magazine and in El Pais in Spain. Launched in […]
Doctoral student, Claire Votava, was selected to receive the 2023-24 Peter Baldwin UCLA History Fellowship at the Wende Museum. Peter Baldwin Fellows will combine historical methodologies and scholarship with on-the-job […]
Joshua McGuffie was awarded the 2023 Norris Hundley Prize for the best dissertation in the history of the U.S. West, Latin America, and the Pacific World in the Department of History […]
Lisl Schoepflin’s dissertation, “Making Inca History: Authors and Artists in the Murua Manuscripts on the History of Peru, 1588-1616” was awarded the 2023 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in […]
View Eugen Weber Book Talk Recording Here The 2024 Weber Book Prize was awarded to two historians at the annual American Historical Association (AHA) Meeting. Owen White, Professor of History […]
We are sad to announce that Herman Ooms, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, passed away last week on December 14. He was an active member of our department from 1987 until […]
The Digital Florentine Codex project, co-founded by Kevin Terraciano launches on October 26th with a virtual conference. This project included faculty from the UCLA History Department and the UCLA Art […]
