Linda Civitello
One of our graduate students, Linda Civitello, recently published a book called Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking. Amazon link First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked […]
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Carla Pestana’s The English Conquest of Jamaica Featured by Several Websites & Publications
Carla Pestana’s book, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire, has been featured by several websites and publications. Here is a list:Podcast recorded by Carla for New Books in Caribbean […]
Valerie Matsumoto
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department, and the Department of History are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Valerie J. Matsumoto to the George and Sakaye […]
Naveen Kanalu
Naveen Kanalu, graduate student in the South Asia field, has been awarded the 2017 International Dissertation Research Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council for archival research abroad.
Andrew Apter Debate with Dennis Prager
With conservative radio show host Dennis Prager hosting Haydn’s Symphony No. 51, which he has been invited to conduct as part of a fundraiser for the Santa Monica Symphony at […]
Kristin Mirek
Kristin Mirek, history undergraduate alumna and member of the Department of History’s Board of Advisors, is featured in an article (written by history undergraduate Maggie Bliss!) discussing her experience as […]
Joan Waugh CSPAN Interview To Air on July 23
Professor Joan Waugh’s recently recorded interview with CSPAN Book TV about her book The American War will air on Sunday July 23, 2017 at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m.
William Summerhill Interviewed by BBC on Political Corruption in Brazil
William Summerhill was interveiwed by BBC World Service Newsday (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p057w3r9 ) about the political consequences of the corruption conviction of former President Lula in Brazil (July 13, 2017).
Cassia Roth (Ph.D. 2016)
Congratulations to Cassia Roth, who is the UCLA nominee for the 2017-18 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts. It is for her dissertation titled “A Miscarriage of […]
Brenda Stevenson Book Talk on C-SPAN, July 16th
Brenda Stevenson’s book talk on What is Slavery? will be airing this Sunday, July 16th, at 10am & 10pm PT on C-SPAN.
