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Andrew Apter Receives Funding for Africa-Forward Initiative
October 12, 2021
Professor Andrew Apter has received two years of funding (2022-24) for “Quiet Revolutionaries:...
Eric Avila Appointed as the New Waldo W. Neikirk Term Chair in the Division of Undergraduate Education
October 12, 2021
Dean of Undergraduate Education Adriana Galván announced the appointment of Professor Eric Avila (...
Congratulations to Post-Doc Brian J. Griffith Recipient of the SIHS Prize
October 8, 2021
Brian J. Griffith, holder of the Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship in European...
Former Ph.D. Student, Shiferaw Assefa, Passes Away
September 7, 2021
We announce with sadness the sudden death of former student, Shiferaw Assefa (Ph.D. 2011) in late...

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
Mario Biagioli, "From Anti Science to Science Mimicry: Inventing Ethics in Trump's EPA."
Monday, October 18
Corinna Treitel (Washington University), "Gesundheit! Seeking German Health, 1750-2000"
Thursday, October 21
Chris Willoughby, "Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum."
Monday, November 01
Why History Matters: Making a Difference: Historical Scholarship and Social Justice (A Conversation in Honor of Gary Nash)
Thursday, November 11
Iris Clever, "The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science."
Monday, November 29
Featured Publications
[French Translation] Empires entre Islam et Chrétienté
[Spanish Translation] Feminismo para América Latina: Un movimiento internacional por los derechos humanos
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
[Japanese Translation] The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
Lecturer Positions 2021 - 2022
Faculty Honors
Emeritus Professor Saul Friedlander Awarded the Prestigious Balzan Prize
September 14, 2021
Our emeritus colleague Saul Friedlander was awarded the Balzan Prize. Given by the International Balzan Prize Foundation, the award...
Soraya de Chadarevian Awarded the Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award
June 4, 2021
Soraya de Chadarevian has been awarded the Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award for tenured faculty for the book Heredity Under the...

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. Jackson Smith
Dr. Jackson Smith is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Department of History. He will be working with Professor Robin D.G. Kelley. 

Alumni Highlights
Enrique Rivera Publishes Book
October 14, 2021
Enrique Rivera (PhD 2019) has published The Untold History of Capitalism with International Press. A global capitalism, it uses the 1795...
Cassia Roth Won the MacLeod Book Prize
October 4, 2021
Cassia Roth, currently Assistant Professor of History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, recently won...
Student Highlights
Ethan Mefford Awarded Fullbright Fellowship
October 11, 2021
Ethan Mefford, a PhD student of European history working under Professor Caroline Ford, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue...
Amanda Martinez's Publication in the LA Times
June 30, 2021
Amanda Martinez (PhD Candidate, Spring 2021) was published in the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/...