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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...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam to Deliver Inaugural Address for Congress of the Society of Jewish Studies
June 20, 2019
Sanjay will deliver the plenary and inaugural address of the Premier congrès de la Société des...
Article about Gary Nash and National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) Appears in UCLA Magazine
June 4, 2019
An article about Gary Nash and the establishment of the National Center for History in the Schools...

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Events
UCLA History Department Open House
Tuesday, September 24
Vikram Tamboli, “Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
Thursday, October 10
Jaimie D. Crumley - "Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and The Politics of Black Women’s Liberation"
Friday, October 18
127th Faculty Research Lecture by Professor Brenda Stevenson
Wednesday, October 30
Manuel Covo, "The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions. The French Colony of Saint-Domingue and Commercial Republicanism"
Thursday, November 14
Comparing the Histories of China and India: A Round Table
Tuesday, November 19
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Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
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Faculty Honors
Theodore M. Porter Awarded 2019 Cheiron Book Prize
August 12, 2019
Theodore M. Porter was awarded the Cheiron (The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) 2019 Book...
Geoffrey Robinson Awarded the 2019 Raphael Lemkin Book Award by the Institute for the Study of Genocide
August 5, 2019
Congratulations to Geoffrey Robinson who has won the 2019 Raphael Lemkin Book Award by the Institute for the Study of Genocide (ISG) for...
Alumni Highlights
Max Flomen (PhD 2018)
June 20, 2019
Max Flomen has been appointed an Assistant Professor of pre-1800 North American History in the West Virginia University History Department...
Adam Woodhouse Mowl (PhD 2018)
March 28, 2019
Adam Woodhouse Mowl (PhD 2018) was awarded the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for his dissertation, “Liberty and Empire in Florentine...
Student Highlights
Kelly McCormick (2019 PhD Candidate)
September 6, 2019
Congratulations to Kelly McCormick, who will join the History Department at the University of British Columbia as an Assistant...
Masayoshi Yamada (2022 PhD Candidate)
August 20, 2019
Masayoshi has contributed a book chapter, entitled "You're My Pin-up Girl!: The Politics of Jazz Fandom and the Making of Mary Lou Williams...