
Madonna Aoun Ghazal (PhD 2024) Awarded 2025 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize
Madonna Ghazal’s dissertation, “Gender, Property, and Kinship…

Tania Bride (PhD 2024) Awarded 2025 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize
Tania Bride’s dissertation, "Entangled Creatures: Intercultural…

Ziad Abu-Rish Publishes New Book
Congratulations to Ziad M. Abu-Rish (PhD 2014), currently Associate…

Erdem Ilter (PhD ’25) Joins Stanford University as Visiting Scholar
Congratulations to Erdem Ilter (PhD ‘25), who will be joining…

Jacob Green Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Francisco
Congratulations to Jacob Green, who has been awarded a postdoctoral…

Nana Osei-Opare Publishes New Book
Alumni Nana Osei-Opare (currently Assistant Professor of History…

Preston S. McBride Publishes Article in California History
Alumni Preston S. McBride, now Assistant Professor of History…

Beatriz Cruz López Wins Francisco Javier Clavijero Prize
Congratulations to Beatriz Cruz López for winning the Francisco…

Joshua McGuffie (Ph.D. ’23) Accepts Tenure-Track Position at Moorpark College
Joshua McGuffie (who was awarded the History Department’s 2023…

Teren Sevea Promoted to Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School
Former PhD student (and Lifka prize winner) Teren Sevea has been…

