Katherine M. Marino’s book Feminism for the Americas: the Making of an International Human Rights Movement received an Honorable Mention for the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History for the most original book in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History, including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776.
Watch her interview with DJ Sixsmith of CBS Local News (New York) on February 28, 2020 here.Watch her talk at Burbank Buena Vista Library on March 12, 2020 here.
Katherine Marino won the 2020 International Studies Association (ISA)’s Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) Bertha Lutz Prize, awarded to “a scholar who is considered to be conducting the highest quality public writing and research on women in diplomacy, defined broadly.” Katherine shares this year’s award with Torild Skard, a Norwegian feminist, politician, psychologist, and former chair […]
Geoffrey Robinson’s The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Book Award for the Non-U.S. history category by the Society for Military History. The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2020 during the Society’s annual meeting in Arlington, Virginia. The author of each prize-winning book will […]
UCLA History Graduate Student, Jeffrey Dymond, has just been selected for the exchange program between UCLA and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy for the summer of 2020, where he will continue to conduct research for his doctoral dissertation titled “The Formation of the State in Humanist Political Thought, c.1250-c.1550”. Jeff has also just […]
UCLA History Graduate Student, Lisl Schoepflin, won the prize for the best presentation by a graduate student at the biennial conference of Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) held in St. Louis on February 14 and 15, 2020 for her paper titled “Como Sus Menores y Humildes Vasallos: The Making of Inca Nobility in the Early […]
F.E.L. Priestley Lectures in the History of Ideas: Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA on “For and Against Empire in the Sixteenth Century”The sixteenth century saw the rise of several European overseas empires — Portuguese and Spanish, and then English and Dutch — as well as the consolidation of more ‘traditional’ forms of empire like those of […]
Michael O’Sullivan (PhD. Spring 2019) was recently named a Prize Fellow by Harvard’s Joint Center for History and Economics. Michael will begin this prestigious three-year fellowship in Fall of 2020.
Jyoti Balachandran (PhD. Spring 2012), Assistant Professor at Penn. State has published a new book based on her UCLA dissertation. The book is titled Narrative Pasts: The Making of a Muslim Community in Gujarat, c. 1400–1650. Jyoti’s faculty advisor was Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Read more at: Oxford University Press
Katherine Marino’s book, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, has been awarded the 2020 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award by the Latin American Studies Association. The award will be bestowed by the LASA President in the Welcome Ceremony of the Association’s XXXVIII International Congress of the […]
