Nicole Gilhuis has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History at Pepperdine University beginning this August. She will be teaching courses in US history, African history, Indigenous history, and Atlantic history.
Madina Thiam, 5th year PhD candidate in the Africa field, has received a 2020 AHA Research Grant for her project entitled “Seeking Freedom in the Sahel, from the Maasina Revolution to the Breakup of the Mali Federation.”
Hollian Wint Released a Podcast for UCLA CMRS on January 30, 2020. The details of the podcast are as follows – Beyond Brokerage: Finding Evidence of Creole Commerce in Gujarati Sources for African HistoryAudio of the lecture by HOLLIAN WINT (UCLA, History) from the UCLA CMRS Early History of Africa Symposium: New Narratives for a History of Connections and Brokers on […]
An extensive interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam was just published in Le Grand Continent in Paris. It includes long discussion of the coronavirus crisis and its relationship to resurgent nationalism, immigration, responses across the globe, and more especially in France, the U.S., and India, and moves on to an original and wide-ranging discussion of approaches to history and of Sanjay’s work in particular. Read the interview here: https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2020/05/05/sanjay-subrahmanyam/.
Iris Clever will begin a two-year postdoctoral position at the rank of instructor on July 1, 2020 at the University of Chicago’s Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
Miloš Jovanovich, co-edited an issue of Cultural Studies (with Giulia Carabelli of Queen’s University, Belfast) entitled “Empire Off-Centre””, a special section in the anniversary issue of History of the Present (10:1). The special issue brings together authors working on public memory, (dis)orientation and more-than-human legacies of empire, and is a complement to our special issue exploring the same concept presently […]
As a final project for Professor David Myers’ Winter 2020 History 191L course, students produced an online Viewer’s Guide for the HBO series “Our Boys.” It reflects their hard work, keen insights, and historical grounding.
Prominent historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein has been named the inaugural holder of the Viterbi Family Endowed Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies in the UCLA College divisions of humanities and social sciences. Read more here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/stein-viterbi-chair-in-jewish-studies.
Peter Baldwin will participate on a panel April 22, 2020 organized by the London School of Economics on Sweden’s approach to COVID-19. For more information, click here. To register, click here
Ellen Dubois has published an article in the National Geographic on the effect of the 1918 pandemic on the Woman Suffrage movement in the U.S.
