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Rebecca Waxman Receives the Penny Dissertation Research Fellowship from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Rebecca Waxman, 3rd year doctoral student in the South Asia field, has received the Penny Kanner Dissertation Research Fellowship from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. The Penny Kanner Research Fellowship funds exceptional dissertation research projects that pertain to women or gender that use historical materials and methods. Waxman’s dissertation will analyze instances […]

Yiming Ha Publishes Research Article

Doctoral student Yiming Ha published a research article titled “Public Discourse and Private Sentiment: Ritual Controversies, Ritual Authority, and Political Succession in Ming and Chosŏn”. The article is available online here.

Choon Hwee Koh Publishes Article in Comparative Studies in Society and History

Choon Hwee Koh has published an article in Comparative Studies in Society and History titled “The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy” and can be viewed on FirstView at Comparative Studies in Society and History at the link below. It will come out formally in July 2022. Links: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/mystery-of-the-missing-horses-how-to-uncover-an-ottoman-shadow-economy/3C58E3C7B0D57FB1F47B27B17A19409A

Fabian Guzman Recognized as Male Scholar of the Year

Congratulations to history major Fabian Guzman, who  has been recognized by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund as this year’s HSF Male Scholar of the Year! Fabian competed with an applicant pool of about 125,000 college students across the country, 34,000 HSF Scholars, and 9 other finalists. https://youtu.be/NDFBch-u8-k (Fabian’s section starts at around 1:00 of the video)

David Myers Publishes Review in the Los Angeles Review of Books

David Myers published a review of Shaul Magid’s Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical in the Los Angeles Review Of Books. Links: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-ontology-of-hate-on-shaul-magids-meir-kahane-the-public-life-and-political-thought-of-an-american-jewish-radical/

Spanish Edition of Alumni Enrique Salvador’s Book Published

The Spanish-language edition of alumni Enrique Salvador Rivera’s book The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (originally published in 2021) was recently published in the United States and in Venezuela: https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/la-historia-no-contando-capitalismo/