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 University: What should our postpandemic future look like?” at https://www.aaup.org/article/reparative-university#.X5HFUy9h2Cc.
David Sabean has been awarded the Award for Scholarly Distinction by the American Historical Association. This award is given to a senior historian for lifetime achievement. List of 2020 Winners
Brenda Stevenson will speak at the UCLA International Institute’s first webinar in the Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives series. The webinar, entitled Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery and Segregation, will take place on Friday, October 23rd. You can learn more about the event here: https://www.facebook.com/UCLAInternationalInstitute/posts/10164331299035707.
Ellen DuBois recently published an article in The New York Times about Eleanor Flexner, a pioneering feminist. You can read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/obituaries/eleanor-flexner-overlooked.html.
Professor Tawny Paul has been awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize by the American Historical Association for her book The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2019) as the best book in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. List of 2020 Winners
Graduate student Matthijs Tieleman’s article, “Lessons from the 18th Century Dutch Republic,” has been posted on the History News Network. Tieleman examines political pluralism in the Netherlands as a way to deal with the current polarization in the U.S. Read the article here.
Amanda Martinez is a PhD Candidate who has recently done a couple of media interviews NBC interview: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/country-music-s-reckoning-black-women-forge-their-own-path-n1243570 NPR interview: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904366868/the-mavericks-are-back-this-time-en-espanol
Geoffrey Symcox, professor of early modern Europen history, is running a conference with the Center for Medeival & Renaissance Studies (CMRS) on October 29-30 about the Sacri Monti of northern Italy.Zoom registration and other details can be found for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference by clicking on the respective links.
Please mark your calendars for this upcoming CCIS/CSIM Event. This event may be recorded.Please note that all times listed are in Pacific Time.Registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sO6PYFq-Q5Sl-KM15VPe9QClick here to see the flyer.
Dr. Tawny Paul, Director of the Public History Initiative, was interviewed by LA Social Science about her new book The Poverty of Disaster. You can listen to Tawny share her research on debt and incarceration in the eighteenth century, and how this history informs our understanding of financial insecurity, precarity and mass incarceration today at this link: https://youtu.be/JPYh34yfZng
