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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...
Geoffrey Robinson to Appear on a Panel, “Self-Determination, Remedial Secession and International Law: The Artsakh Crisis in Comparative Perspective”
April 6, 2021
Geoffrey Robinson will be part of a panel on April 29 titled “Self-Determination, Remedial...

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

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Why History Matters: Faculty Opinions
Events
Gideon Manning, “False Images Do Not Lie: Medicine, Editors’ Decisions, and the Case of René Descartes’s Treatise on Man.”
Monday, April 19
The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives
Thursday, April 22
Crisis, Unity, & Revolution: UCLA History's 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
Friday, April 23
Y. Yvon Wang, “Sexology Sells: Licentiousness & Sexual Science on fin-de-siècle Beijing Markets”
Monday, April 26
Jacy Young, “Psychology, Questionnaires, and the Morass of ‘Big’ Data.”
Monday, May 03
History Front Office Virtual Help Desk
Featured Publications
The Fury of Covid-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico
Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe
Lecturer Positions 2020-21
Faculty Honors
Stephen Aron to Become President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West
April 6, 2021
Stephen Aron will become President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West on July 1, 2021, upon his retirement from UCLA. Steve...
Brenda Stevenson Appointed the Inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St John’s College, Oxford University
April 6, 2021
Brenda Stevenson has been appointed the inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St John’s College, Oxford University....

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
Iris I. Clever Interviewed by "Speaking of Race"
March 18, 2021
Iris I. Clever, currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of...
Cassia Roth, a UCLA alumna, published an article, "In the family way: incest, fertility control, and the power of the patriarchal family in Brazil"
March 17, 2021
Cassia Roth, a UCLA alumna, now teaching at the University of Georgia, published an article,  "In the family way: incest, fertility...
Student Highlights
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...
Jeff Dymond Published in the Journal of the History of Ideas
April 5, 2021
Jeff Dymond has just published “Human Character and the Formation of the State: Reconsidering Machiavelli and Polybius VI,” in the ...