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Professor Emeritus Bariša Krekić (1928-2021)
January 14, 2021
Professor Emeritus Bariša Krekić died earlier this week at the age of 92. A historian of medieval...
Professor Geoffrey Robinson and PhD alumni Dahlia Setiyawan Featured in Daily Bruin Article
January 13, 2021
Geoffrey Robinson and PhD alumni Dahlia Setiyawan were featured in an article in the Daily Bruin...
Carla Pestana Featured in "Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History"
December 17, 2020
Carla Pestana appeared on "Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History" for...
Professor Emeritus Mortimer Chambers Passes Away
December 14, 2020
The department is saddened to announce that Mortimer Chambers died peacefully on December 14, 2020...

Luskin Center for History and Policy

New academic research center devoted to using history to publish knowledge that promotes solutions to present-day issues. Learn more...

  • Listen to our new podcast “Then & Now” 
  • Read faculty reflections in the age of coronavirus
  • A research opportunity is now being offered by the Luskin Center

UCLA Public History Initiative

The UCLA Public History Initiative (PHI)
Why History Matters: Faculty Opinions
Events
Philip Lehmann, “Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.”
Monday, January 25
Sasha Turner, "Negotiating Slavery and Motherhood on the Terrain of Feelings."
Thursday, February 04
Hippolyte Goux, "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man."
Monday, February 08
Discussion of "The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and "Insanity" in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia"
Wednesday, February 10
Roundtable, Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Monday, February 22
History Front Office Virtual Help Desk
Featured Publications
Heredity under the Microscope
Faut-il universaliser l’histoire
The Fury of Covid-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Lecturer Positions 2020-21
Faculty Honors
Kelly Lytle Hernandez Named to the Pulitzer Prize Board
December 3, 2020
Kelly Lytle Hernandez has been named to the Pulitzer Prize Board, which chooses the winners of that prestigious award in journalism,...
Robin Derby to Present the Distinguished Professor Lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Americas
November 19, 2020
Robin Derby will present the Distinguished Professor Lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North...

Post-Doc Scholars

Dr. Brian Griffith
Dr. Griffith is our inaugural Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post Doc who started on July 1, 2020 and will be working with Professor Caroline Ford.

Dr. Rosie Bermudez
Dr. Bermudez is beginning her second year as a UC Presidential Post Doc working with Professor Robin D.G. Kelley.  

Alumni Highlights
Anthea Hartig, the Director of the National Museum of American History, reflects on her time at UCLA
December 4, 2020
Anthea Hartig, now the Director of the National Museum of American History, was featured on a podcast in which she talks about her days as...
Susan Rosenfeld's Dissertation Received the Norris Hundley Prize
November 13, 2020
Susan Rosenfeld's dissertation, “Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia...
Student Highlights
Matthijs Tieleman Won the Research Travel Award from the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interaction
January 13, 2021
Matthijs Tieleman recently won the Research Travel Award from the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interaction (FEEGI) for his...
Fredrick Walter Lorenz's Publication in The International Journal of Middle East Studies
November 18, 2020
Fredrick Walter Lorenz, is the recipient of the First-Article Award from UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies, for his article...