The department is saddened to announce that Mortimer Chambers died peacefully on December 14, 2020. Mort was a part of the Ancient Field. His main area of research was Greek history of the classical period, especially Greek historical authors (Thucydides, Aristotle’s Athenian Constitution).
Anthea Hartig, now the Director of the National Museum of American History, was featured on a podcast in which she talks about her days as an undergraduate history student at UCLA in the 1980s. Preview of Podcast: “I couldn’t think of a more qualified individual to speak to the realities of an ever-changing world […]
Kelly Lytle Hernandez has been named to the Pulitzer Prize Board, which chooses the winners of that prestigious award in journalism, books, drama and music each April. Learn more about this honor.
Brian J. Griffith, Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History, gave a talk titled “Contesting the National Beverage: Wine, Beer, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy” with the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS). A brief abstract of his paper on this topic is as follows: “This paper analyzes […]
We are saddened to announce that UCLA History PhD (Spring 1996) alumna Sharon Gillerman (1960-2020) passed away on November 23, 2020 following several months of hospitalization battling an illness. Dr.Gillerman served as the Kutz Chair in Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, and as adjunct Associate Professor of History at the […]
Carla Pestana has written an article in The Conversation titled “In the 1620’s Plymouth Plantation Had Its Own #MeToo Moment.” Here’s a short excerpt:”In the many celebrations, reflections and histories of Plymouth colony, the settlement’s gender dynamics often get short shrift.But not unlike today, men possessed power and privilege, women feared voicing their views and experiences, and […]
The December issue of Smithsonian Magazine features an interview with Carla Pestana on her recent book, The World of Plymouth Plantation.The article is titled “Why the Myths of Plymouth Dominate the American Imagination.” Here’s a short excerpt of the article:”As reliably as summer turns to autumn, when leaves start to fall Americans start to think about a meal […]
Carla Pestana, author of recently published book The World of Plymouth Plantation, was interviewed by History News Network about the truth behind our Thanksgiving myths: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178318
Robin Derby will present the Distinguished Professor Lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina on March 1, 2020.
Fredrick Walter Lorenz, is the recipient of the First-Article Award from UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies, for his article titled “‘The Second Egypt’: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897-1904”. Publication is forthcoming in The International Journal of Middle East Studies.
