Meleana Chun-Moy Featured in the UCLA Newsroom
Graduating history senior Meleana Chun-Moy was featured in an article in the UCLA Newsroom June 12, 2020: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/these-students-have-earned-their-degrees-in-building-equity
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Jill Watts’ The Black Cabinet Reviewed in the New York Times
A new book by Jill Watts, The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt, was favorably reviewed in the New York Times: […]
Nana Osei-Opare Published in the Washington Post
Nana Osei-Opare published a piece in the Washington Post giving historical and global context to the current response to George Floyd’s murder: Around the world, the U.S. has long been […]
Statements About Recent Events from History Chair, AHA, and OAH
History Chair Carla Pestana wrote a statement on the current protests and events in the U.S.: https://history.ucla.edu/content/history-chairs-statement-current-protests-and-events-usThe American Historical Association has issued a statement urging a reckoning with the United States’ deplorable […]
Brenda Stevenson on the Recent Social Unrest
Brenda Stevenson participated in the following media events during this past week of social unrest:LA’s History with Civil Unrest Spans Decades. How Has it Evolved?, Spectrum News 1Living While Black, KCRWRace […]
Vinay Lal on Fiat Luxes in Daily Bruin Prime
Professor Vinay Lal speaks about the Fiat Lux courses on Covid-19 in this special issue of the Daily Bruin, and gives a history of the beginnings of the “Fiat Lux” […]
An Interview with Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam in The Hindu
Sanjay Subrahmanyam gave an extensive interview to the Indian newspaper The Hindu over the weekend concerning Indian historiography, connected history, and post-colonial studies: https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/too-many-historians-in-india-have-obsessed-about-who-is-properly-nationalist-sanjay-subrahmanyam/article31701543.ece
Ben Madley Wins the Inaugural Robert W. Cherny Award
Ben Madley’s article for the Pacific Historical Review, “California’s First Mass Incarceration System: Franciscan Missions, California Indians, and Penal Servitude, 1769-1836” is the inaugural winner of the Robert W. Cherny Award […]
Grace Ballor accepts position as Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School
Grace Ballor has accepted a position as the Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School for 2020-2021, and will move to Milan, Italy in Fall 2021 as Assistant Professor of Economic History at […]
Amir Alexander Interviewed by Canadian CBC
Amir Alexander gave a recent interview with Canadian CBC radio about his book Proof!, and it’s now available athttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/why-nations-rely-on-geometry-to-create-order-1.5585093
