Brenda Stevenson was interviewed for several media outlets this past week regarding the diversity and size of the protests following George Floyd’s murder. She was quoted on KCRW’s Greater LA on June […]
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
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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’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 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 […]
