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.
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Kelly Lytle Hernandez’s Million Dollar Hood Project Awarded Grant Support
The California Endowment has awarded the Million Dollar Hoods project $214K in grant support for 2017/18. Lytle Hernandez is a Principal Investigator for the project which maps how much Los […]
Miles Stanley
Congratulations to Miles Stanley, who earned a B.A. in History, for winning the Fennell Postgraduate Scholarship to attend an Edinburgh University master’s degree program in United States History.
Ben Madley
The Institute for the Study of Genocide has awarded Ben Madley’s book, An American Genocide, the 2017 Raphael Lemkin Book Award. This biennial award is for the best nonfiction work that focuses on […]
Elle Harvell
Elle Harvell, one of our current PhD students, is featured in an article regarding rare sketches of Civil War soldiers. You can read the article here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/civil-war-sketchbook-ucla-library
Nwando Achebe (Ph.D. 2000)
Congratulations to Nwando Achebe, who has just been named Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University.
William Summerhill publishes invited Op-Ed in Brazil’s Folha de S.Paulo
William Summerhill published an invited Op-Ed piece, “Instituiçōes e Crises Brasileiras” [“Institutions and Brazilian Crises”] in the Sunday Folha de S.Paulo. It briefly notes the resilience of Brazil’s political institutions in […]
Carey McWilliams Award Winners
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students for winning the Carey McWilliams Award for their Senior Honors Thesis! They were selected on the basis of their topic and the research they performed for the 2016 […]
Mary Corey
Congratulations to Mary Corey who has been selected by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching to receive the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty. She is one of only […]
