We are saddened to announce that Professor Jan Reiff died unexpectedly at her home on May 4, 2021. A member of our department since 1992, Jan taught U.S. history and in recent years had been involved in various university initiatives that made her a presence across campus. She will be deeply missed. Please see the […]
PhD student Gregory Sattler’s new article “The Ideological Underpinnings of Private Trade in East Asia, ca. 800–1127” was published in Kyushu University’s Journal of Asian Humanities. Gregory’s article examines the close relationship between merchants and officials in East Asia, and demonstrates a continued use of diplomatic conventions in Sino-Japanese private trade from the late ninth to early twelfth […]
Mary Momdjian wrote an article included in a book titled Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period, edited by Stefan Winter and Mafalda Ade. The volume was part of a series Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Volume: 124 published by Brill. Dr. Momdjian’s article is one of eleven essays in English and French […]
Congratulations to Kelly Lytle Hernandez, who was one of eight UCLA faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Kelly was awarded a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which said her research on “the intersecting histories of race, mass incarceration, immigration, […]
Ben Madley has been awarded a 2021-2022 Huntington Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship for his project Forgotten Forty-Niners: Native American Miners in the California Gold Rush and the Making of the Modern World. Ben is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. He writes about Native Americans as well […]
Marjan Wardaki (PhD 2019) has been awarded a postdoc at Yale, namely the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship in Iranian and Persian Studies. (The program was formally housed in the Yale Program in Iranian Studies and Council on Middle East Studies.) Read more about the Persian Heritage Foundation here.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez will be on a California MacArthur Fellows panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 23. The conversation will be moderated by Gustavo Arellano and will include USC Professor Natalia Molino in a wide-ranging discussion of immigration policy and its historical roots and the origins and evolution of incarceration […]
PhD student Rachel Kaufman published her first poetry book titled Many to Remember released by Dos Madres Press. In this debut poetry collection, Rachel Kaufman enters the archive’s unconscious to reveal the melodies hidden within the language of the past. Many to Remember unravels the histories of New Mexican crypto-Jews and the Mexican Inquisition alongside the poet’s own […]
Miloš Jovanović and Mirjana Radovanović of KURS will be doing a Q&A about their film “Waterfront: A post-Ottoman post-socialist story” at the Melikian Center at Arizona State University on Thursday April 8. The event link is: https://asuevents.asu.edu/content/waterfront-postottoman-postsocialist-story-film-discussion?eventDate=2021-04-08 Miloš Jovanović also took part in a panel hosted by The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities […]
Peter James Hudson’s extended review essay “On Anarchism and the Black Revolution” was published by The Black Agenda Review of Books. You can read his essay here: https://www.blackagendareport.com/review-anarchism-and-black-revolution
