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.
Michael Meranze published a review in the Los Angeles Review of Books of Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon’s recent book, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age.
Thomas Ingersoll (PhD 1990) passed away recently at the age of 73. He taught at several universities, including Ohio State University at Lima where he joined the faculty as Associate Professor in 2002. Tom’s research was on colonial America and nineteenth-century United States, and focused on slavery, American Indians, and the revolutionary war. His obituary […]
Miloš Jovanović will deliver a lecture via Zoom titled “Nostalgic Refractions: Ottoman Afterlives in the Balkan Cityscape” at Bogazici University in Istanbul on Tuesday January 11 at 9 am Pacific Time. Links: https://hist.boun.edu.tr/events/nostalgic-refractions-ottoman-afterlives-balkan-cityscape
Doctoral student Avery Weinman published a review of Ori Yehudai’s Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel After World War II with The Tel Aviv Review of Books.
Alumna Catherine Ceniza Choy (Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and author of the forthcoming book Asian American Histories of the United States) was one of 18 historians contributing to Politico’s “How Will the History Books Remember 2021?”
Professor Brenda Stevenson (currently serving as inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St. John’s College, University of Oxford) was one of 18 historians asked to contribute to Politico’s “How Will the History Books Remember 2021?”
Amir Alexander’s book, Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical, has been chosen as one of only eight books recommended by Vox for the Holidays. Amir has also been inducted into the Renaissance Weekend, an invitation-only conference for leaders in business and finance, government, the media, religion, medicine, science, technology and the arts.
Robin D.G. Kelley is one of six recipients of the 2021 Freedom Scholars Awards from the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Group Health Foundation and will receive $250,000 to advance his work in service of justice, freedom and social change. Now in its second year, the $1.5 million in awards support thinkers and scholars whose work can help improve […]
Carla Pestana, Department Chair & Distinguished Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, will be giving an online book talk on her recent publication, The World of Plymouth Plantation, on December 1 at 5 pm hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies/Early Global Studies. Links: https://cmrs.ucla.edu/event/new-book-salon-pestana/
