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Carla Pestana to Give Online Book Talk
November 22, 2021
Carla Pestana, Department Chair & Distinguished Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair...
NY Times Magazine Discusses Work on School History Curriculum Conducted by the Late Gary Nash
November 9, 2021
A recent New York Times Magazine piece on the 1619 project and the changing understanding of the...
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 (...

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
Iris Clever, "The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science."
Monday, November 29
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College), “History, Liturgy, and the Formation of Christian France”
Tuesday, November 30
L’Encyclopedie noire: An Assembly of Shadows
Thursday, December 02
Deadlock in Israel-Palestine Part 2
Sunday, December 05
European Colloquium: Anthony Grafton's Talk
Wednesday, February 09
Featured Publications
A Fake Saint and the True Church
[Spanish Translation] Feminismo para América Latina: Un movimiento internacional por los derechos humanos
Command and Persuade
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Lecturer Positions 2021 - 2022
Faculty Honors
Teo Ruiz Named A Winner of The American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction
October 18, 2021
Teo Ruiz has been named a winner of the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction!This award goes to senior...
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...

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
Deborah Bauer Publishes First Book
November 19, 2021
Deborah Bauer (PhD 2013), now Associate Professor at  Purdue University Fort Wayne, has just published her first book, Marianne is...
Alumni Kelly Midori McCormick Publishes Washington Post Op-Ed
November 10, 2021
Kelly Midori McCormick (PhD 2019) recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Why was Japanese WWII propaganda on display outside...
Student Highlights
Fullbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Recipients
November 15, 2021
Congratulations to Rebeca Martinez, Ethan Mefford, and Tatiana Sulovska, three of the eleven UCLA graduate students receiving a Fulbright-...
Avery Weinman Participated in the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies Discussion of Liora Halperin's Book, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past
November 15, 2021
Doctoral student Avery Weinman participated in the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center's discussion of Liora Halperin's new book, The Oldest...