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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...
Distinguished Research Professor Gary Nash Passes Away
July 30, 2021
We are sad to announce that Distinguished Research Professor Gary Nash passed away from cancer...
Peter Loewenberg Presented Lecture at International Psychohistorical Association Convention
May 24, 2021
Professor Peter Loewenberg presented the Keynote Lecture on "The Psychodynamics of Nationalism in...
Congratulations to Dr. Rosie Bermudez, new assistant professor at UC San Diego
May 18, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Rosie Bermudez, who has accepted a position as an assistant professor in the...

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...

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Featured Publications
[Japanese Translation] The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
[French Translation] Empires entre Islam et Chrétienté
[Spanish Translation] Feminismo para América Latina: Un movimiento internacional por los derechos humanos
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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
Adam Woodhouse Appointed to a Three-Year Fellowship at Robinson College
September 3, 2021
Adam Woodhouse (PhD 2018)  - currently a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the...
Thabisile Griffin Awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship
August 23, 2021
Thabisile Griffin has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices fellowship at the Institute for Comparative...
Student Highlights
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/...
The Carey McWilliams and Mary Ritter Beard Awards Recipients
June 2, 2021
Carey McWilliams Award is to recognize the best History Honors Thesis.  The Award winner(s) will be announced at the departmental...