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Professor Janice Reiff Passes Away
May 5, 2021
We are saddened to announce that Professor Jan Reiff died unexpectedly at her home on May 4, 2021....
Kelly Lytle Hernandez Will Be On a California MacArthur Fellows Panel at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
April 13, 2021
Kelly Lytle Hernandez will be on a California MacArthur Fellows panel at the Los Angeles Times...
Miloš Jovanović and Mirjana Radovanović to Host a Q&A About Their Film "Waterfront: A post-Ottoman post-socialist story"
April 8, 2021
Miloš Jovanović  and Mirjana Radovanović of KURS will be doing a Q&A about their film "...
Peter James Hudson’s Essay Published by The Black Agenda Review of Books
April 8, 2021
Peter James Hudson’s extended review essay "On Anarchism and the Black Revolution" was published by...

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...

UCLA Public History Initiative

The UCLA Public History Initiative (PHI)
Why History Matters: Faculty Opinions
Events
Stephen Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commisar"
Friday, May 07
Jacy Young, “Psychology, Questionnaires, and the Morass of ‘Big’ Data.”
Monday, May 10
Madison Felman-Panagotacos, "La Difunta Correa"
Wednesday, May 12
Bharat Venkat, “At the Limits of Cure.”
Monday, May 17
Claudio Fogu, "The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians"
Wednesday, May 19
History Front Office Virtual Help Desk
Featured Publications
The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe
Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History
Lecturer Positions 2020-21
Faculty Honors
Ben Madley Awarded a 2021-2022 Huntington Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship
April 22, 2021
Ben Madley has been awarded a 2021-2022 Huntington Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship for his project Forgotten Forty-Niners: Native...
Kelly Lytle Hernandez Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 22, 2021
Congratulations to Kelly Lytle Hernandez, who was one of eight UCLA faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

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
Mary Momdjian Included in "Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period"
April 26, 2021
Mary Momdjian wrote an article included in a book titled Aleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period, edited by Stefan...
Marjan Wardaki Awarded the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship at Yale
April 19, 2021
Marjan Wardaki (PhD 2019) has been awarded a postdoc at Yale, namely the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship in Iranian...
Student Highlights
Gregory Sattler Published in Kyushu University’s Journal of Asian Humanities
April 28, 2021
PhD student Gregory Sattler’s new article “The Ideological Underpinnings of Private Trade in East Asia, ca. 800–1127” was published in...
Rachel Kaufman Published Debut Poetry Book
April 12, 2021
PHD student Rachel Kaufman published her first poetry book titled Many to Remember released by Dos Madres Press.  In this...