Sandy Moats (PhD 2001, currently Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Parkside) is publishing her second book, Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic this August.
Amanda Martinez (PhD Candidate, Spring 2021) was published in the Los Angeles Times. Her article was about country music Latino artists in Nashville, Tennessee.
Soraya de Chadarevian has been awarded the Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award for tenured faculty for the book Heredity Under the Microscope. The citation for this honor reads: “In Heredity under the microscope Dr. Chadarevian takes us on the journey of the research on human chromosomes from the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond. […]
Kevin Terraciano and Jeanette Peterson receive the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Prize for best book in the Humanities published in 2019-20, Mexican Section, Honorable Mention, for The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (University of Texas Press).
Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis. The Award winner(s) will be announced at the departmental reception on Commencement Day. 1st Place – Ashley Huendo’s “The Legacy of Affliction: Coping through Palo Monte and Regla de Ocha in Special Period Cuba” 2nd Place – Catherine Colson’s “The Alien Red Menace: American Elites’ Promotion […]
Professor Peter Loewenberg presented the Keynote Lecture on “The Psychodynamics of Nationalism in South Tirol/Alto/Adige” (essay linked here) to the 44th Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association at New York University (NYU) on May 19th to 21st.
Congratulations to Dr. Rosie Bermudez, who has accepted a position as an assistant professor in the department of history at UC San Diego. Dr Bermudez held a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Department of History for the past two years, after earning her PhD in Chicana/Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation […]
James Gelvin, professor of modern Middle Eastern history, published an article about the current situation in Israel and Palestine in The Conversation titled “As the Palestinian minority takes to the streets, Israel is having its own Black Lives Matter moment”. Read the article here: https://theconversation.com/as-the-palestinian-minority-takes-to-the-streets-israel-is-having-its-own-black-lives-matter-moment-160958
Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam was featured with Carlo Ginzburg on a radio program on France Culture. Subrahmanyam and Ginzburg discussed the topic: “The origins of laicite and secularism”. Listen to the conversation here: https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-temps-du-debat/le-temps-du-debat-emission-du-vendredi-14-mai-2021
James Gelvin was elected to the Pacific Council on International Policy, an organization focused on generating a closer connection between local community experience and critical international issues. James was also recently inducted into Renaissance Weekend, an invitation-only conference for leaders in business and finance, government, the media, religion, medicine, science, technology and the arts.
