Professor Andrew Apter has received two years of funding (2022-24) for “Quiet Revolutionaries: Digitizing the Jadeas Library Archive of Historians Who Transformed Africa, 1958-2007.” The project focuses on the personal papers of the late Professor Jacob F. Ade-Ajayi—cofounder of the Ibadan history school in the late 1950s—and documents the international network of African scholars who […]
Dean of Undergraduate Education Adriana Galván announced the appointment of Professor Eric Avila (jointly appointed in History and of Chicana and Chicano Studies) as the new Waldo W. Neikirk Term Chair in the Division of Undergraduate Education. Eric Avila will serve as chairholder for three years (2021-24), during which time he plans to continue his […]
Ethan Mefford, a PhD student of European history working under Professor Caroline Ford, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue his dissertation research for 12 months in France and Morocco starting in January 2022. The title of his dissertation is “Environment, Production, and Resistance: The Olive Oil Trade in the Moroccan Jbala.”
Brian J. Griffith, holder of the Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship in European History, has received the Society for Italian Historical Studies Article Prize for his article, “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937.” See the award committee’s official citation as well as an interview with Dr. Griffith […]
Cassia Roth, currently Assistant Professor of History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, recently won the MacLeod Book Prize in Latin American History from the Southern Historical Association for her book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford UP, 2020).
Our emeritus colleague Saul Friedlander was awarded the Balzan Prize. Given by the International Balzan Prize Foundation, the award honors four scholars and scientists each year who are distinguished on the international level. An eminent historian of Modern Europe and a Holocaust survivor and historian, Professor Friedlander contributed significant work on Holocaust and Genocide Studies. […]
We announce with sadness the sudden death of former student, Shiferaw Assefa (Ph.D. 2011) in late August while on vacation in Ethiopia. Dr. Assefa was an Amharic instructor at UC Berkeley.
Adam Woodhouse (PhD 2018) – currently a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago – has just been appointed to a three-year Fellowship in the History of Political Thought at Robinson College, in association with the Department of Politics and International […]
Thabisile Griffin has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices fellowship at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Thabisile earned her PhD in 2021 with her dissertation, “The Unmaking of St. Vincent: Colonial Insecurity and Black Indigeneity, 1780-1797.”
We are sad to announce that Distinguished Research Professor Gary Nash passed away from cancer early on July 29, 2021. Gary was a prolific scholar and taught early American history at UCLA from 1966 until his retirement in 1994. LA Times News Article UCLA Newsroom Article Please see the History Department webpage for more information.
