Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Liam Moore, who was selected as a 2026 Chateaubriand Fellow by the Chateaubriand PhD Fellowship Program in Humanities and Social Sciences, a competitive program sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. The award will support Liam’s dissertation work in France, Contested Futures: Tramways and Local Level […]
On June 16, Ph.D. student Gregory Sattler will present at The Conference on Tang-Song Transitions at Princeton University. His presentation, titled “Zhedong Sea Merchants and the China-Japan Trade, ca. 800–1000 CE,” will introduce a network of sea merchants from China’s Zhedong (Zhejiang) region that is only identifiable in Japanese primary sources. Although this group monopolized […]
Peter Loewenberg was awarded the JAPA Prize for the best article in JAPA (The Journal of the American Pychoanalytic Association for 2021, 69:no. 2, April, 2021) for his essay “The Historian’s Self-Reflection and American Racism.”
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be giving a talk at the University of Geneva on June 15 titled “Entre Afrique orientale et Inde: Circulations, esclavage et commerce à l’époque modern” Further information
Eric Avila is featured in the PBS documentary special The Great Thirst: William Mulholland, which details the fascinating and complex history of California’s relationship with water, highlighting the story of William Mulholland and the creation of modern Los Angeles. The documentary is inspired by the work of the late Norris Hundley Jr., an acclaimed author who was an emeritus […]
Naveen Kanalu and Nivedita Nath contributed to the recently published book The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (New Delhi: Primus, 2022) edited by Vinay Lal.
Nivedita Nath,alumni and PhD candidate at UCLA, has just been awarded a UC President’s Postdocs at UC Irvine.
Congratulations to Madina Thiam (PhD expected Spring 2022)! She will start a tenure-track position in African History at New York University’s Department of History in the Fall 2022.
Lisl Schoepflin had an article titled “Micuc Isutu Cuiuc Utusi Cucim: The Sator Square and Martín de Murua’s Quechua Palindrome Poem” published in Caliope 27/1 (2022), a peer-reviewed journal.
