UCLA Department of History

The event recording is now available:   Why History Matters: “U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here? featuring Kelly Lytle-Hernández Professor, UCLA Departments of History, African American Studies […]

Congratulations to Dr. Scottie Hale Buehler (PhD, 2020) on accepting a new position as Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. Scottie Buehler previously held a position as an […]

Prof. Brenda E. Stevenson received the Eby Award for Excellence in Teaching and Practice of Teaching, a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. Congratulations to Prof. Stevenson for being recognized with this award from […]

We’re excited to share that Dr. Iris I. Clever (PhD, 2020) is starting as assistant professor in Information, Culture, and Society at the School of Information Sciences at the University […]

Distinguished Professor Soraya de Chadarevian delivered the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Lecture with the title “Rendering the Molecular World: Where Science and Art Meet” at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich on […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. student, Chloe Zheng, for being selected as the 2025-26 Peter Baldwin UCLA History Fellow at the Wende Museum. Peter Baldwin Fellows combine historical methodologies and scholarship with on-the-job […]

The William & Mary History Department selected Prof. Vivien Tejada as their inaugural Tyler Visiting Scholar, which includes a roundtable on the state of the field of Black and Indigenous 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 […]