Alumni Highlights

Joshua McGuffie (PhD 2023) Awarded 2023 Norris Hundley Prize

Joshua McGuffie was awarded the 2023 Norris Hundley Prize for…
January 12, 2024/by Mary Johnson

Lisl Schoepflin (PhD 2023) Awarded 2023 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize

Lisl Schoepflin’s dissertation, "Making Inca History: Authors…
January 12, 2024/by Mary Johnson

Mathew Luckett (PhD 2014) featured in Los Angeles Times

Mathew Luckett (PhD 2014), currently Director and Professor,…
November 16, 2023/by Edward Trujillo

Anthony Vivian Coauthors and Coedits “A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations”

Anthony Vivian coauthored and coedited (with Michael Shally-Jensen) A…
October 24, 2023/by Edward Trujillo

Laura Talamante named Presidential Outstanding Professor 2023

Laura Talamante (Professor and Chair of the Department of…
October 24, 2023/by Edward Trujillo

Naveen Kanalu Wins Prix du College de France in Paris

Congratulations to Naveen Kanalu (PhD, 2021), who won the…
September 22, 2023/by History WebTechs

Alfred Flores Publishes First Book

Alfred Flores (PhD 2015), currently an Assistant Professor…
September 6, 2023/by History WebTechs

Dr. Nana Osei-Opare Joins Rice University’s History Department and Center for African and African American Studies

 

We're excited to share that Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, an…
August 8, 2023/by Edward Trujillo

Allison K. Shutt (Ph.D. 1995) Named Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Chair of History at Hendrix College

We are pleased to share exciting news from our UCLA History…
June 27, 2023/by History WebTechs

2022 History/PreMed Graduate Andrew Panosian Featured in UCLA College News

2022 History/PreMed graduate Andrew Panosian was featured in…
May 5, 2023/by History WebTechs

Scottie Buehler (PhD 2020) Accepts New Position and Awarded Grant

Congratulations to History Graduate Student Alumna, Scottie…
April 28, 2023/by Mary Johnson

Cynthia E. Orozco Wins the 2023 NACCS Scholar Award

 



Congratulations to Cynthia E. Orozco (PhD. 1992),…
April 18, 2023/by History WebTechs

Ph.D. student Rachel Kaufman published an article in Comedia Performance

Ph.D. student Rachel Kaufman published an article in Comedia…
April 14, 2023/by History WebTechs

Congratulations to Amanda Martinez on award of the Carolina Postdoctoral Fellowship

Recent alumna Amanda Martinez has been awarded the Carolina Postdoctoral…
March 6, 2023/by History WebTechs

David Spielman Has Accepted Position in African History at NYU

David Spielman has accepted a tenure-track position in African…
February 9, 2023/by History WebTechs

Congratulations to Dr. Max Daniel on Winning the 2022 Hundley Prize

Dr. Max Daniel was awarded the 2022 Hundley Prize by the Department…
January 17, 2023/by History WebTechs

Congratulations to Dr. Fredrick Walter Lorenz on Winning the 2022 Lifka Prize

Dr. Fredrick Walter Lorenz was awarded the 2022 Lifka Prize by…
January 17, 2023/by History WebTechs

Enrique Salvador Rivera Contributed a Piece to NPR

Enrique Salvador Rivera, Ph.D. contributed a piece to National…
September 1, 2022/by History WebTechs

Frederick Walter Lorenz’s Peer-Reviewed Article Accepted for Publication

Fredrick Walter Lorenz’s peer-reviewed article titled “‘Agents,…
June 23, 2022/by History WebTechs

Frederick Walter Lorenz (PhD, Spring 2022), to Start a Tenure-Track Position At The University of North Georgia

Fredrick Walter Lorenz (PhD, Spring 2022), will start a tenure-track…
June 17, 2022/by History WebTechs

Naveen Kanalu and Nivedita Nath contributed to The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge

Naveen Kanalu and Nivedita Nath contributed to the recently published…
May 31, 2022/by webteam

Nivedita Nath Awarded a UC President’s Postdocs at UCI

Nivedita Nath,alumni and PhD candidate at UCLA, has just been…
May 31, 2022/by webteam

Preston McBride Accepts Offer For Tenure-Track Position at Pomona College

Preston McBride accepted an offer for a tenure-track position…
April 13, 2022/by webteam

Spanish Edition of Alumni Enrique Salvador’s Book Published

The Spanish-language edition of alumni Enrique Salvador Rivera’s…
April 11, 2022/by webteam

Teren Sevea Wins Association for Asian Studies’ Harry J. Benda Prize for Best First Book on Southeast Asian Studies

 



Alumni Teren Sevea (now Assistant Professor at…
March 28, 2022/by webteam

Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (PhD 2021) Named to Post of Maitre de Conferences

 



Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (PhD 2021) has been named…
March 23, 2022/by webteam

Thomas Ingersoll (PhD 1990) Passes Away at the Age of 73

Thomas Ingersoll (PhD 1990) passed away recently at the age of…
January 26, 2022/by webteam

Catherine Ceniza Choy in “How Will the History Books Remember 2021?”

Alumna Catherine Ceniza Choy (Professor of Ethnic Studies at…
January 3, 2022/by webteam

Deborah Bauer Publishes First Book

Deborah Bauer (PhD 2013), now Associate Professor at  Purdue…
November 19, 2021/by webteam

Kelly Midori McCormick Publishes Washington Post Op-Ed

Kelly Midori McCormick (PhD 2019) recently published an op-ed…
November 10, 2021/by webteam

Enrique Rivera Publishes Book

Enrique Rivera (PhD 2019)…
October 14, 2021/by webteam

Cassia Roth Won the MacLeod Book Prize

Cassia Roth, currently Assistant Professor of History & Latin…
October 4, 2021/by webteam

Adam Woodhouse Appointed to a Three-Year Fellowship at Robinson College

Adam Woodhouse (PhD 2018)  - currently a Harper-Schmidt Fellow…
September 3, 2021/by webteam

Thabisile Griffin Awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship

Thabisile Griffin has been awarded an American Council of Learned…
August 23, 2021/by webteam

Sandy Moats’s Second Book “Navigating Neutrality”

Sandy Moats (PhD 2001, currently Professor of History, University…
July 26, 2021/by webteam

Mary Momdjian Included in “Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period”

Mary Momdjian wrote an article included in a book titled Aleppo…
April 26, 2021/by webteam

Marjan Wardaki Awarded the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship at Yale

 



Marjan Wardaki (PhD 2019) has been awarded a postdoc…
April 19, 2021/by webteam

Iris I. Clever Interviewed by “Speaking of Race”

Iris I. Clever, currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the…
March 18, 2021/by webteam

Cassia Roth published article in Women’s History Review

 



Cassia Roth, a UCLA alumna, now teaching at the…
March 17, 2021/by webteam

Henry Lovejoy Awarded 2020 Isaac Oluwole Delano Book Prize

 



Congratulations to Henry Lovejoy, whose Prieto:…
January 29, 2021/by webteam

Anthea Hartig, the Director of the National Museum of American History, reflects on her time at UCLA

 



Anthea Hartig, now the Director of the National…
December 4, 2020/by webteam

Susan Rosenfeld’s Dissertation Received the Norris Hundley Prize

Susan Rosenfeld's dissertation, “Apparitions of the Atlantic:…
November 13, 2020/by webteam

Sohaib Baig’s Dissertation Won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize

Sohaib Baig’s dissertation, “Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of…
November 13, 2020/by webteam

Nana Osei-Opare to Give a Presentation, “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism”

Thursday, November 12 | 12:00 pm PT | Via Zoom

For more…
October 26, 2020/by webteam

Awet Tewelde Weldemichael Elected into the Royal Society of Canada

Awet Tewelde Weldemichael, Ph.D. 2008, Professor and Queen’s…
September 14, 2020/by webteam

Bob Edgar and Son Featured in News Stories about Black Lives Matter

Alumni Bob Edgar and his son were featured in two recent news…
September 14, 2020/by webteam

Sohaib Baig’s Islamic Law Program at Harvard

Sohaib Baig (2020 Doctoral Recipient) began his Research Fellow…
September 10, 2020/by webteam

History Alumnus Marco Greenberg’s New Book

History alumnus Marco Greenberg (BA 1986) has written a new…
September 4, 2020/by webteam

Preston S. McBride Becomes Charles Eastman Postdoctoral Fellow for Darthmouth College

 

Upon receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA over the summer…
August 20, 2020/by webteam

Bill Katin’s Book to be Published this Fall

Bill Katin’s book, Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies,…
August 5, 2020/by webteam

Yatta Kiazolu Awarded a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to Yatta Kiazolu, who was awarded a President’s…
July 6, 2020/by webteam

Rob Sierakowski’s Sandinistas Wins a Book Prize

Rob Sierakowski's book Sandinistas, which was born as a UCLA…
July 6, 2020/by webteam

Jill Watts’ The Black Cabinet Reviewed in the New York Times

A new book by Jill Watts, The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story…
June 12, 2020/by webteam

Nana Osei-Opare Published in the Washington Post

Nana Osei-Opare published a piece in the Washington Post giving…
June 5, 2020/by webteam

Grace Ballor accepts position as Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School

Grace Ballor has accepted a position as the Newcomen Fellow at…
May 27, 2020/by webteam

Elizabeth Comuzzi accepts position as Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University

Elizabeth Comuzzi has accepted a position as Assistant Professor…
May 12, 2020/by webteam

Sam Keeley to Be Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute für Europäische Geschichte

Sam Keeley has accepted a 12-month position as a Research Fellow…
May 7, 2020/by webteam

Nicole Gilhuis accepts position as Assistant Professor of History at Pepperdine University

Nicole Gilhuis has accepted a position as Assistant Professor…
May 7, 2020/by webteam

Iris Clever (PhD 2020)

Iris Clever will begin a two-year postdoctoral position at the…
May 1, 2020/by webteam

Michael O’Sullivan Named a Prize Fellow

Michael O’Sullivan (PhD. Spring 2019) was recently named a…
February 3, 2020/by webteam

Jyoti Balachandran Publishes New Book

Jyoti Balachandran (PhD. Spring 2012), Assistant Professor at…
February 3, 2020/by webteam

Guillermo Ruiz Stovel Awarded the Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize

Guillermo Ruiz Stovel was awarded the Norris Hundley Dissertation…
January 14, 2020/by webteam

Pauline Lewis Wins the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize

Pauline Lewis won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for…
January 14, 2020/by webteam

Grace Ballor (Ph.D. 2018)

Alumna, Grace Ballor, earned an honorable mention at the 2020…
January 10, 2020/by webteam

Zeynep Turkyilmaz (Ph.D. 2009)

A diary found in an online archive by academic researcher, Zeynep…
January 9, 2020/by webteam

Cassia Roth (PhD 2016)

Cassia Roth has a forthcoming book, A Miscarriage of Justice:…
December 17, 2019/by webteam

Phoebe Musandu (PhD 2013)

The American Historical Association has recently announced that Phoebe…
October 8, 2019/by webteam

Max Flomen (PhD 2018)

Max Flomen has been appointed an Assistant Professor of pre-1800…
June 20, 2019/by webteam

Adam Woodhouse Mowl (PhD 2018)

Adam Woodhouse Mowl (PhD 2018) was awarded the Thomas E. Lifka…
March 28, 2019/by webteam

Max Baumgarten (PhD 2017)

Max Baumgarten (PhD 2017) was awarded the Norris Hundley Dissertation…
March 28, 2019/by webteam

William Katin (PhD 2018)

Congratulations to William Katin, whose dissertation has been…
March 19, 2019/by webteam

Sabrina Smith (PhD 2018)

Congratulations to Sabrina, who has earned a position as an Assistant…
September 25, 2018/by webteam

Alfred P. Flores (PhD 2015)

Congratulations to Alfred Flores who is joining Harvey Mudd College,…
June 18, 2018/by webteam

Rachel Schley, (PhD 2015)

Congratulations to Rachel Schley who has been appointed an Assistant…
June 18, 2018/by webteam

Michael Weismeyer (PhD 2017)

Congratulations to Michael Weismeyer, who has become an Assistant…
June 8, 2018/by webteam

Stephanie Truskowski

The German Academic Exchange Service has awarded a DAAD  fellowship…
April 25, 2018/by webteam

Deidre Cooper-Owens (PhD 2008)

Congratulations to Deidre Cooper-Owens (PhD 2008, now Assistant…
April 17, 2018/by webteam

Pablo M. Sierra Silva (PhD 2013)

Congratulations to Pablo Sierra Silva on the publication of his…
April 9, 2018/by webteam

Joshua Herr (PhD 2017)

Josh Herr is now based in the Hong Kong office of Perrett Laver,…
March 16, 2018/by webteam

Erika Pérez (PhD 2010)

Congratulations to Erika Pérez on the publication of her first…
February 8, 2018/by webteam

Deirdre Cooper Owens (PhD 2008)

Congratulations to Deirdre Cooper Owens for the publication of…
February 8, 2018/by webteam

Peter Klaren (Ph.D. 1968)

Press Release: Washington, DC (September 15 2017)—The Peruvian…
February 1, 2018/by webteam

John Edward Philips

Congratulations to John Edward Philips on his new book, Black…
January 16, 2018/by webteam

Linda Civitello (Ph.D. 2017)

Congratulations to Linda Civitello, one of our PhD recipients,…
November 21, 2017/by webteam

Constanze Weise (Ph.D. 2013)

Congratulations to Constanze Weise who begins a tenure-track…
August 24, 2017/by webteam

Kristin Mirek

Kristin Mirek, history undergraduate alumna and member of the…
August 1, 2017/by webteam

Cassia Roth (Ph.D. 2016)

Congratulations to Cassia Roth, who is the UCLA nominee for the 2017-18…
July 17, 2017/by webteam

Miles Stanley

Congratulations to Miles Stanley, who earned a B.A. in History,…
July 5, 2017/by webteam

Nwando Achebe (Ph.D. 2000)

Congratulations to Nwando Achebe, who has just been named Jack…
June 13, 2017/by webteam

Patrick Sharma (Ph.D. 2010)

Congratulations to Patrick Sharma on the publication of his book, Robert…
April 19, 2017/by webteam

Daniel Lynch (Ph.D. 2015)

Congratulations to Dan Lynch for being awarded the the Western…
March 10, 2017/by webteam

Bruce Thomson

The governing body of California high school sports has announced…
February 14, 2017/by webteam

Subah Dayal

Congratulations to Subah Dayal (recent UCLA PhD and now assistant…
January 12, 2017/by webteam

NEH Grant to 3 PhD Alumni

Alumni Catherine Cymone Fourshey (PhD 2002), Rhonda M. Gonzales…
August 12, 2016/by webteam

Susan Solt (C.Phil)

Congratulations to History graduate student Susan Solt (C.Phil,…
August 10, 2016/by webteam

Lois Johnson (PhD 1970)

Congratulations to history department alumna Lois Johnson…
June 23, 2016/by webteam

Aaron Benanav (PhD Winter 2015)

Aaron Benanav has accepted an appointment as Harper-Schmidt Fellow…
May 13, 2016/by webteam

Laura Redford (PhD 2014)

Alumna Laura Redford has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor…
May 5, 2016/by webteam

Melanie Arias (PhD 2013)

Congratulations to Melanie Arias (PhD 2013) who will be stepping…
April 22, 2016/by webteam

Benjamin Cowan (PhD 2010)

Congratulations to Benjamin Cowan (PhD 2010) on the publication…
March 23, 2016/by webteam

Rachel Deblinger (PhD 2014)

Congratulations to Rachel Deblinger (PhD 2014) who just accepted…
March 15, 2016/by webteam

Henry Lovejoy (PhD 2012)

Congratulations to Henry Lovejoy (PhD 2012), who just received…
February 9, 2016/by webteam