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Congratulations to Professor Stacy Fahrenthold, the 2025 winner of The Nikki Keddie Book Award! Given by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly work in the area of religion, revolution, and/or society in the Middle East.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congratulations to Professor Stacy Fahrenthold, the 2025 winner of The Nikki Keddie Book Award! Given by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly work in the area of religion, revolution, and/or society in the Middle East.
Read Professor Keith David Watenpaugh’s article “Attacks on Public History and America’s National Parks” at the link below and in our bio.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Read Professor Keith David Watenpaugh’s article “Attacks on Public History and America’s National Parks” at the link below and in our bio.
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Prof. Lisa Materson will present her new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY Friday, Nov 7, @ Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
8:00 a.m. (California) / 11:00 a.m. (Puerto Rico) and will stream on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CIHUPR
8:00 a.m. (California) / 11:00 a.m. (Puerto Rico) and will stream on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CIHUPR
Centro de Investigaciones Históricas - Universidad de Puerto Rico | San Juan
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November 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Prof. Lisa Materson will present her new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY Friday, Nov 7, @ Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras
8:00 a.m. (California) / 11:00 a.m. (Puerto Rico) and will stream on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CIHUPR
8:00 a.m. (California) / 11:00 a.m. (Puerto Rico) and will stream on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CIHUPR
Professor Chuck Walker in Ayacucho, Peru hands over a newly digitized archive to ANFASEP, an organization of relatives of victims of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict. Walker leads a team funded by UCLA-Modern Endangered Archives Program that is digitizing three major human rights archives in Peru.
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Professor Chuck Walker in Ayacucho, Peru hands over a newly digitized archive to ANFASEP, an organization of relatives of victims of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict. Walker leads a team funded by UCLA-Modern Endangered Archives Program that is digitizing three major human rights archives in Peru.
Congratulations to UC Davis PhD Alum Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, who won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize at the American Academy of Religion! Read more at this link
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October 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Congratulations to UC Davis PhD Alum Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, who won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize at the American Academy of Religion! Read more at this link
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Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Professor of History, discussing her new book _America Under the Hammer_ (UPenn, 2024)
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How Auctions Shaped Buying, Value and What Can Be Owned in Early America
Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor’s recent book details how auctions created the foundations for our modern economic system as it made and unmade people and communities by collectively setting a price...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Professor of History, discussing her new book _America Under the Hammer_ (UPenn, 2024)
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New publication by Sabujkoli Mukherjee, History PhD candidate specializing in South Asian and environmental history.
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Muddy Lines and Murky Waters: The Making of a Colonial Deltaic Forest, 1816–1828 | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 4
Abstract This article focuses on the extensive, low-lying mangrove forests in the lower Gangetic Delta, commonly called the Sundarbans, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The English East...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New publication by Sabujkoli Mukherjee, History PhD candidate specializing in South Asian and environmental history.
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"Modern Palestinian History" contextualizes the 1948 Nakba–the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes with Israel’s establishment–with sources ranging from Ottoman maps to British commission reports and Palestinian writings and poetry.
September 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Modern Palestinian History" contextualizes the 1948 Nakba–the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes with Israel’s establishment–with sources ranging from Ottoman maps to British commission reports and Palestinian writings and poetry.
"The Arab American Immigrant Experience" narrates the history of Arab immigration to the United States and how these immigrants navigated racial stereotyping. Focused attention is paid to how Arab Americans were represented in popular culture.
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"The Arab American Immigrant Experience" narrates the history of Arab immigration to the United States and how these immigrants navigated racial stereotyping. Focused attention is paid to how Arab Americans were represented in popular culture.
"Middle Eastern Jewish Life and Early Zionism, 1880-1920" presents a variety of voices from Arabic-speaking and Sephardic Jewish communities alongside European Jewish perspectives.
September 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Middle Eastern Jewish Life and Early Zionism, 1880-1920" presents a variety of voices from Arabic-speaking and Sephardic Jewish communities alongside European Jewish perspectives.
"Premodern Elite Culture in Andalusia" introduces students to the multicultural world of medieval Iberia, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian elites shared cultural practices across political and religious divides.
September 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"Premodern Elite Culture in Andalusia" introduces students to the multicultural world of medieval Iberia, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian elites shared cultural practices across political and religious divides.
A yearlong partnership between the Department of History and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has resulted in the publication of four new inquiry sets on Middle Eastern and Arab American history!
September 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A yearlong partnership between the Department of History and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has resulted in the publication of four new inquiry sets on Middle Eastern and Arab American history!
Prof. Cecilia Tsu led an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students on this research project! At #ucdavis undergrads have the opportunity to graduate level #research.
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UC Davis Students Uncover History of a Little-Known Black Community in Woodland
Sam Garcia was in her final year at University of California, Davis, when, like many students in their college years, she had not yet identified a clear future path.Then, through a UC Davis history pr...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Prof. Cecilia Tsu led an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students on this research project! At #ucdavis undergrads have the opportunity to graduate level #research.
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Justin Sollit has won the Walter Woodfill Prize for the best undergraduate research paper for the 2024-25 academic year in recognition for “Medical Reform Debates for the Union Army After the First Battle of Bull Run” Congratulations, Justin!
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July 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Justin Sollit has won the Walter Woodfill Prize for the best undergraduate research paper for the 2024-25 academic year in recognition for “Medical Reform Debates for the Union Army After the First Battle of Bull Run” Congratulations, Justin!
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Stuart has spent her career illuminating some of the most complex and haunting parts of the human past, from early modern justice systems to the unsettling phenomenon of “suicide by proxy” in 18th-century Germany.
Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!
Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!
July 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Stuart has spent her career illuminating some of the most complex and haunting parts of the human past, from early modern justice systems to the unsettling phenomenon of “suicide by proxy” in 18th-century Germany.
Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!
Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!
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History professor Kathy Stuart at @ucdavis.bsky.social has recently been chosen by her students to receive the Excellence in Education Award!
In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.
In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.
Students Honor History Professor Who Connects Today’s Conspiracies with Humanity’s Dark Past
With a frequently playful approach, historian Kathy Stuart invites students to engage deeply with very serious topics like stigma and persecution in early modern Europe. This year, ASUCD, the undergra...
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July 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
History professor Kathy Stuart at @ucdavis.bsky.social has recently been chosen by her students to receive the Excellence in Education Award!
In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.
In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.
Congratulations to PhD student Xiwen Yang, awarded the runner-up Scholz Prize for her paper titled "“The Sufi Reimagining of Copernican Cosmology in Eighteenth-Century Anatolia”. The yearly Scholz prize recognizes the best paper written in the 2nd-year research seminar (HIS 203).
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Congratulations to PhD student Xiwen Yang, awarded the runner-up Scholz Prize for her paper titled "“The Sufi Reimagining of Copernican Cosmology in Eighteenth-Century Anatolia”. The yearly Scholz prize recognizes the best paper written in the 2nd-year research seminar (HIS 203).
Prof Marian Schlotterbeck wins #ucdavis Humanities Institute Fellowship for Collaborative Research supporting the publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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Davis Humanities Institute Awards Fellowships for Collaborative Research
The Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) has awarded two faculty in the College of Letters and Science with Network Collaboration Fellowships that provide $5,000 in support for fellows or their collabora...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Prof Marian Schlotterbeck wins #ucdavis Humanities Institute Fellowship for Collaborative Research supporting the publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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Professor Charles Walker is working on a groundbreaking digitization project in Peru, bringing fragile human rights documents online.
#skystorians
#Peru
#humanrights
#skystorians
#Peru
#humanrights
Preserving Human Rights Archives in Peru: UC Davis Leads New Digitization Project to Safeguard an Endangered History
Charles Walker, a professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science, was recently awarded a $100,000 grant to digitize archives from three major human rights organizations in Peru. W...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Professor Charles Walker is working on a groundbreaking digitization project in Peru, bringing fragile human rights documents online.
#skystorians
#Peru
#humanrights
#skystorians
#Peru
#humanrights
Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson!
#skystorians
#skystorians
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson!
#skystorians
#skystorians
The Department of History is saddened by the passing of our colleague Mario Biagioli, who taught at UC Davis from 2010 to 2019. Read more about Dr. Biagioli at the link below and in our bio.
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history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Department of History is saddened by the passing of our colleague Mario Biagioli, who taught at UC Davis from 2010 to 2019. Read more about Dr. Biagioli at the link below and in our bio.
history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli
history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli
Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 19 for a Symposium on Puerto Rico and the Diaspora organized by the Davis-Puerto Rico Initiative. 9:00-3:00, Sproul 912. History Professors Lisa Materson and José Juan Pérez Meléndez are among the speakers. #puertorico #skystorians
May 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 19 for a Symposium on Puerto Rico and the Diaspora organized by the Davis-Puerto Rico Initiative. 9:00-3:00, Sproul 912. History Professors Lisa Materson and José Juan Pérez Meléndez are among the speakers. #puertorico #skystorians
Congratulations to Sofia Hosseinzadeh on her 2nd Place Lang Prize win for her honors thesis “‘How that Stevenson Rumor Started’: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality”! #skystorians
May 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Congratulations to Sofia Hosseinzadeh on her 2nd Place Lang Prize win for her honors thesis “‘How that Stevenson Rumor Started’: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality”! #skystorians
Amy Fallas will join the History Department Fall 2025 as a #ucdavis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow to work on her book manuscript “Their Own Poor: Communal Identities, Charitable Societies, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt, 1879-1939.”
May 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Amy Fallas will join the History Department Fall 2025 as a #ucdavis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow to work on her book manuscript “Their Own Poor: Communal Identities, Charitable Societies, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt, 1879-1939.”