Susan Rosenfeld’s dissertation, “Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia to Lagos, 1850-1900,” received the Norris Hundley Prize for the best dissertation in the history of […]
Sohaib Baig’s dissertation, “Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of Hadith: Islamic Legal Authority between South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, 16th – 20th Centuries,” won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for […]
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Research Professor Emeritus, passed away on November 11, 2020. A noted scholar of Chicano/a history, Juan earned his PhD in history at UCLA and taught in the department […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be discussing Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and the first European to travel to India by sea on Monday 11/16, at 10 AM PST, at the “Digital Museum”.Registration Link
Brian J Griffith (the Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History) has published an article “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937” in Contemporary European History. The […]
Madina Thiam (PhD candidate, African history) has two articles out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History: “Women in Mali” “The History of Mali: Connectivity and State Formation since […]
Thursday, November 12 | 12:00 pm PT | Via Zoom For more information about this event, click here. To register, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IM-O0FQoQXS0Iy4F2xh0Vw From Professor Osei-Opare: I will highlight the value and importance of postcolonial […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be giving a virtual talk, “After Vienna, 1683: A Portuguese Prophet of Ottoman Doom” at the Courtauld Institute on November 4: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-after-vienna-1683-a-portuguese-prophet-of-ottoman-doomThe failed Ottoman siege of Vienna between […]
Amir Alexander gave a public lecture in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series, entitled “How Mathematics Shapes our World, and our Values”: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/distinctive-voices/VIDEO: How Mathematics Shapes […]
Michael Meranze has published an article about the future of U.S. higher education in the fall 2020 issue of American Association of University Professors. You can read “For a Reparative […]
