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Katherine Marino Appointed to OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program
November 20, 2019
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) recently appointed Katherine Marino to their...
Celebrating the Life of Paul Padilla
November 15, 2019
Paul Padilla, longtime student advisor for the Department of History, passed away unexpectedly at...
Obituary for Professor Peter Reill
August 28, 2019
Peter Reill, Professor Emeritus of History, former department chair, and former Director of the...
Carla Pestana Elected to American Historical Association Nominating Committee
July 29, 2019
Carla Pestana was elected to a three-year stint on the AHA nominating committee. The committee...

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Why History Matters: Faculty Opinions
Events
Kittiya Lee, "Dressed to Impress: the Tupi sovereign body in Pero Vaz de Caminha's 1500 Letter from Brazil"
Thursday, January 23
Open House at Luskin Center for History and Policy
Friday, January 24
Margaret O'Mara (University of Washington): "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"
Thursday, January 30
Dr. Maria Todorova, "Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins"
Thursday, January 30
Tyler Kynn, “The Seasonality of Ottoman Power: Pilgrims and Imperial Patronage Networks in Early Modern Mecca and Medina”
Thursday, January 30
Truth and Nonviolence in Post-Truth Times: An International Conference on Mohandas Gandhi
Thursday, January 30
Featured Publications
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
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Faculty Honors
Sarah Stein's "Family Papers" named Finalist for a 2019 National Jewish Book Award
January 15, 2020
Sarah Stein's book "Family Papers" was a Finalist for a 2019 National Jewish Book Award.To read more about this honor, click the link below...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam Awarded the International Prize of History
January 9, 2020
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has been awarded the International Prize of History by the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS). The...
Alumni Highlights
Pauline Lewis Wins the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize
January 14, 2020
Pauline Lewis won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History  for her work “Wired...
Guillermo Ruiz Stovel Awarded the Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize
January 14, 2020
Guillermo Ruiz Stovel was awarded the Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the history of the U.S. West,...
Student Highlights
Sean Messarra Honored at Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching Award Ceremony
October 17, 2019
Sean Messarra, who received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants, was recently honored at the Andrea L. Rich Night...
David Spielman Awarded Fulbright-Hays Grant
October 8, 2019
Dawit (David) Spielman has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant from the Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program of the Department of...