Stephen Aron will become President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West on July 1, 2021, upon his retirement from UCLA. Steve has been a member of the history department faculty since 1996, and for many of those years served concurrently as Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of the […]
Brenda Stevenson has been appointed the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St John’s College, Oxford University. Brenda’s work explores the intersections of gender, race and politics, putting women – and particularly women of color – at the center of accounts of political and social developments. She will serve from November 2021 […]
Geoffrey Robinson will be part of a panel on April 29 titled “Self-Determination, Remedial Secession and International Law: The Artsakh Crisis in Comparative Perspective” hosted by the UCLA Law School. You can learn more about the panel here.
The French magazine La Croix L’Hebdo just did an interview with Sanjay Subrahmanyam on France’s role in today’s world. Links: https://www.la-croix.com/France/Sanjay-Subrahmanyam-France-toujours-place-tenir-monde-2021-04-03-1201149166
Jeff Dymond has just published “Human Character and the Formation of the State: Reconsidering Machiavelli and Polybius VI,” in the Journal of the History of Ideas 82.1 (2021): 29-50. An interview with Jeff about the significance of his article is published in in the journal’s blog here.
Professor Emeritus Peter Loewenberg published an article, “The Historian’s Self-Reflection and American Racism,” in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), Vol. 69/ No. 2. pp. 343-53. A pdf of the article is available here.
Peter Loewenberg led and participated in a “Roundtable on the January 6th Insurrection” in Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Spring 2021), pp. 273-289.
Hollian Wint was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies faculty fellowship, to further her work on Mobile Households: The Intimate Economies of Obligation Across the Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1960.
Kelly Lytle Hernandez was one of eight women awarded a Women of The Year Awards by the Los Angeles County Commission For Women. The virtual celebration for the 36th annual awards, given for work to bring about social and economic change, will take place Thursday March 25, 2021. List of Awardees
PhD student Matthijs Tieleman published an article in Itinerario titled “‘No Intrigue Is Spared’: Anglo-American Intelligence Networks in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic.”
