William Summerhill was interviewed about the problem of educational backwardness in 19th-century Brazil, as part of a story on Renato Perim Colistete (“Pátria Iletrada”) in revista piauí (January 2017). He […]
Congratulations to the following graduate students for winning the Lifka and Hundley Dissertation Prize Winners! Roanna Cheung: Embodying Modernity: Humor, Gender, Politics, and Popular Culture in Republican Guangzhou Subah Dayal: Landscapes of Conquest: Patrons […]
Congratulations to Subah Dayal (recent UCLA PhD and now assistant professor at Clemson) as the chosen winner of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2016-17 research travel award. Subah, […]
Congratulations to Debora Silverman who has received the American Historical Association Higby Prize, for her article “Diasporas of Art”. The Higby Prize is for an article in modern Europe awarded every […]
Congratulations to Sarah Stein for receiving the National Jewish Book Award for Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2016). UCLA Newsroom article, […]
Richard Hovannisian’s publications Armenian Van and Armenian Bitlis & Mush have been released in Turkish translation by Aras Publishers in Istanbul.LOS ANGELES—Two volumes, Armenian Van and Armenian Bitlis & Mush, […]
The History Department mourns the loss of esteemed colleague Professor Emerita Joyce Appleby on December 23, 2016. Tributes and obituaries can be viewed at the links below.A memorial will be […]
Congratulations to Robin Derby who has received an National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for her project Fera Bestia: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands.
Congratulations to Edward Alpers for being honored with four linked panels at the 2016 annual meeting of the African Studies Association in Washington, D.C. on December 2, 2016.
