Ben Madley was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about the Mono Lake Kutzadika Paiute tribe’s long time effort to petition for federal recognition. You can read the story here: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-02-20/a-century-old-fight-for-tribal-recognition-simmers-over-the-eastern-sierra-nevadas-mono-lake
Peter Baldwin’s upcoming book, Fighting the First Wave (to be published by Cambridge University Press in March) is the subject of an article in the New Yorker. The book is a comparative history of the different approaches to the pandemic taken by countries throughout the world. Links: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-good-the-bad-and-the-embarrassing-in-americas-covid-19-response
Jeff Dymond has been awarded a four-year postdoctoral position at the University of Zurich, where he will join a team of scholars investigating the contribution of Ciceronian political theory to the historical development of the concept of justice. The project, entitled “The Just City”, is funded by the European Research Council.
Amanda Martinez (PhD Candidate, Spring 2021) has published a piece in the Washington Post’s “Made by History” series. She was also featured on “The Ringer” podcast.
Marques Vestal, a recent history PhD and incoming Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and Andrew Klein, a history graduate student, wrote an op-ed piece on the homeless situation published today in the Los Angeles Times, linked here. Both scholars were part of the research team for the report on the history of homelessness in Los […]
Phil Hoffman, History Ph.D. student and researcher at the Luskin Center for History and Policy, was a two-time winner on “Jeopardy!” this week.
The new report on homelessness by the Luskin Center for History and Policy was featured in a story by the UCLA Newsroom and examines the historical roots and causes of the disastrous homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, and suggests some innovative policy solutions. The research was conducted by Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, Jessica Richards, Marques Vestal, Fernanda Jahn-Verri, Andrew Klein, […]
Geoffrey Robinson was awarded the George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for his book The Killing Season. This prize is given biennially to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the author’s first book.
Alumni Les Koepplin passed away February 3, 2021 at the age of 76. The first in his family to attend college, Les completed his Ph.D. in History in 1971 at UCLA, where he held the Sen. William Andrews Clark Graduate fellowship. His dissertation was A Relationship of Reform: Immigrants and Progressives in the Far West. Les spent […]
KCRW interviewed Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Marques Vestal for the “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration” initiative. Interview: https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/incarceration-la-prison-kelly-lytle-hernandez-marques-vestal-ucla
