Deborah Bauer (PhD 2013), now Associate Professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne, has just published her first book, Marianne is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). Marianne Is Watching examines the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of […]
Congratulations to Rebeca Martinez, Ethan Mefford, and Tatiana Sulovska, three of the eleven UCLA graduate students receiving a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship! You can read more in the UCLA Newsroom story here!
Doctoral student Avery Weinman participated in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center’s discussion of Liora Halperin’s new book, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (2020), with the author and UCLA Professor David N. Myers. The discussion is available to view online here.
Kelly Midori McCormick (PhD 2019) recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Why was Japanese WWII propaganda on display outside the Met: When women breaking sexist barriers isn’t something to celebrate.” Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/09/why-was-japanese-wwii-propaganda-display-outside-met/
A recent New York Times Magazine piece on the 1619 project and the changing understanding of the role of slavery in the US past discussed the work on school history curriculum conducted by our late colleague Gary Nash. Links: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/magazine/1619-project-us-history.html
Congratulations to the following graduate students for winning the Hundley and Lifka Dissertation Prize Winners! HUNDLEY PRIZE Peter Chesney, “Drive Time: A Sensory History of Car Cultures from 1945 to 1990 in Los Angeles” The Department’s Thesis Prize committee is pleased to award the Hundley Prize to Peter Chesney. Chesney’s thesis, “Drive Time: A […]
Tatiana Sulovska, a PhD Candidate in modern Japanese history working with Professor William Marotti, has been awarded the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship to conduct doctoral dissertation research in Japan for the period of one year. Tatiana’s project is titled “Art as Guerrilla Warfare: Cultural Production Surrounding the Japanese Red Army as Conceptualization of Political Violence.”
Rebeca Martínez, a PhD Candidate in Latin American history working with Professor Kevin Terraciano, has received the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award to pursue her dissertation titled “Women and Bigamy in Colonial Mexico, 16th to 18th Century”. She will be traveling to Mexico and Spain for 12 months to conduct her research.
Teo Ruiz has been named a winner of the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction! This award goes to senior historians of the highest distinction who have spent the bulk of their professional careers in the United States. Last year, fellow Professor Emeritus David Sabean was also honored with this award—an indication that the quality […]
Enrique Rivera (PhD 2019) has published The Untold History of Capitalism with International Press. A global capitalism, it uses the 1795 anti-slavery and anti-colonial rebellion in Coro, Venezuela as the lens from which to probe this history.
