Ph.D student Ethan Mefford has been named winner of the 2022 Marjorie and Lancelot Farrar Award, which is conferred by the Society of French Historical Studies, to support an outstanding […]
Alumni Teren Sevea (now Assistant Professor at Harvard Divinity School) won the Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for best first book on Southeast Asian Studies for the book […]
Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (PhD 2021) has been named to a post of Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Professor Emeritus Giorgio Buccellati, along with Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, received the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. They received this award “For their achievements in […]
Robin Kelley was featured in an entire episode of the Public Broadcasting Corporation’s show Throughline. The episode is titled “There are No Utopias – Robin D. G. Kelley Discusses Black […]
David Myers’ recent book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York was reviewed by The New Yorker. Links: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/an-extraordinary-account-of-a-hasidic-enclave
Brian J. Griffith, currently the Weber Postdoc in European History, just published an OpEd with The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series on the comparisons between the Ethiopian Crisis (1935-36) and […]
Maia Ferdman, Assistant Director of the Luskin Center of History and Policy, has been selected as a Landecker Democracy Fellow – one of 30 changemakers with inclusive and innovative ideas […]
David N. Myers’ new book American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York was reviewed in the New York Review of Books. Links: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/02/24/strangers-in-a-strange-land-hasidic-brooklyn-upstate/
Professor Mary F. Corey’s review Confederate Dunces: On Pervical Everett’s The Trees was published on February 3rd in The Los Angeles Review of Books.
