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Teo Ruiz

Congratulations to Teo Ruiz who is being awarded a doctorate honoris causa this month from the University of Cantabria, Spain.

Brenda Stevenson Interviewed on KPCC’s Take Two

Brenda Stevenson was featured in an interview by KPCC’s Take Two regarding California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and the notion of a strong black woman. You can listen to the interview here:http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/04/03/55947/america-s-complicated-relationship-with-outspoken/

Brenda Stevenson Interviewed by LAist

Brenda Stevenson was featured in an interview by LAist regarding Latasha Harlins and the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. You can read the interview here:http://laist.com/2017/03/24/latasha_harlins_hammer_museum.php

Carla Pestana Publishes New Book

Carla Pestana’s new book, The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire was just published by Belknap Press.  Click on the link below to read a synopsis of […]

David Stein Awarded Maria Stewart Prize

An article written by lecturer David Stein, “This Nation Has Never Honestly Dealt with the Question of a Peacetime Economy’: Coretta Scott King and the Struggle for a Nonviolent Economy […]

New Book by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Kelly Lytle-Hernandez’s new book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the […]

Daniel Lynch (Ph.D. 2015)

Congratulations to Dan Lynch for being awarded the the Western Writers of America 2017 Spur Award in the Best Western Short Nonfiction category, along with co-author Kendra Field, for “Master of Ceremonies: The World of Peter Biggs […]