UCLA Department of History

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Meranze, who has been awarded the inaugural Distinguished Academic Senate Service Award for academic year 2025-26 by the UCLA Academic Senate. This inaugural award celebrates Senate Faculty who […]

Congratulations to Professor Marino. She was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) 2026 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award.The award “honors an historian whose book, book […]

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Chloe Bell-Wilson, for being awarded the prestigious 2026-27 Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Scholarship from the UC Humanities Research Institute, as well as a […]

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Chase Caldwell Smith, for being awarded the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Fellowship in Early American Religious Studies by the McNeil Center at the University […]

Congratulations to Professor Jamie Kreiner, the Robert and Dororthy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, who is among a group of 223 distinguished scholars, scientists, and creative professionals from the U.S. […]

Professor Fernando Pérez Montesinos received an honorable mention in the 2026 Latin American Studies Association Environmental Awards for his book Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (Austin: UT […]

Graduate student Alex Levine just had his first article published in the history journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft (History and Society). The article titled “Geneva’s Environment and the League of Nations” […]

On March 10, 2026, Benjamin Madley delivered the annual Robert Harris Memorial Lecture at Sonoma State University as part of the 43rd Annual Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series. The title […]

Professor Emeritus James Wilkie passed away peacefully in his Pacific Palisades home on Friday morning, March 20, at the age of 90.   James Wilkie was born in Idaho and received […]

Graduate student Lily Hindy just had an article published in The Conversation drawing parallels between recent Syrian declarations of Kurdish rights and Iraq’s 1970 March Manifesto, which fell apart within […]

Congratulations to Daniel P. Gámez, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, who has been hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis starting July 1, […]

Caroline Ford will deliver the Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and World, entitled “The Shape of Water: An Environmental History of the City of Light,” on 2 April 2026 […]

Madonna Ghazal’s dissertation, “Gender, Property, and Kinship in Late Ottoman Beirut,” was awarded the 2025 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History. Committee members praised the […]

Tania Bride’s dissertation, “Entangled Creatures: Intercultural Dialogues Over Human-Animal Transformation in the New Spain, 1521–1770,” was awarded the 2025 Norris Hundley Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on the American West, California, […]