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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.
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
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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.
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/self-society...
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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"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!
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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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).
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.
history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli
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.”
Join us Wed 5/21, 12-1:30 PM, for a discussion of the methodological and historical challenges of studying violence in Peru. This Spanish language event features international social science and humanities scholars. SSH 4217. History Department Library. #skystorians
May 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Join us Wed 5/21, 12-1:30 PM, for a discussion of the methodological and historical challenges of studying violence in Peru. This Spanish language event features international social science and humanities scholars. SSH 4217. History Department Library. #skystorians
Congratulations to UC Davis PhD candidate ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anoba who won a Huntington/Birmingham Exchange Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! He will be at the Cadbury Research Centre, University of Birmingham, working on Orisà Religion's encounters with Western-articulated modernities.
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Congratulations to UC Davis PhD candidate ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anoba who won a Huntington/Birmingham Exchange Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! He will be at the Cadbury Research Centre, University of Birmingham, working on Orisà Religion's encounters with Western-articulated modernities.
Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!
May 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!
UC Davis PhD student Charlotte Hansen Terry has been appointed as Assistant Professor in U.S. history at Utah State University Uintah Basin campus starting this fall. Congratulations Charlotte!
May 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
UC Davis PhD student Charlotte Hansen Terry has been appointed as Assistant Professor in U.S. history at Utah State University Uintah Basin campus starting this fall. Congratulations Charlotte!
#ucdavis History PhD Seth Rockman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_! Congratulations!
www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22...
#pulitzerprize #skystorians
www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22...
#pulitzerprize #skystorians
May 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
#ucdavis History PhD Seth Rockman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_! Congratulations!
www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22...
#pulitzerprize #skystorians
www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22...
#pulitzerprize #skystorians
#ucdavis History Ph.D. Kathleen DuVal wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for _Native Nations: A Millennium in North America_! Congratulations!
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22696
#PulitzerPrize #skystorians
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22696
#PulitzerPrize #skystorians
May 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
#ucdavis History Ph.D. Kathleen DuVal wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for _Native Nations: A Millennium in North America_! Congratulations!
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22696
#PulitzerPrize #skystorians
www.pulitzer.org/winners/22696
#PulitzerPrize #skystorians
Graduate student Brianna Tafolla Riviere, Ph.D. expected June 2025, has been appointed Assistant Professor of History @bostonu.bsky.social starting Fall 2025! Congratulations, Brianna!
www.bu.edu/history/2025...
#ucdavis #bostonuniversity
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#ucdavis #bostonuniversity
May 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Graduate student Brianna Tafolla Riviere, Ph.D. expected June 2025, has been appointed Assistant Professor of History @bostonu.bsky.social starting Fall 2025! Congratulations, Brianna!
www.bu.edu/history/2025...
#ucdavis #bostonuniversity
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#ucdavis #bostonuniversity
Professor Adam Zientek has been awarded the Tomlinson prize, awarded annually by the World War One Historical Association for the best work of history in English on World War One. Congratulations, Professor Zientek! #skystorians
April 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Professor Adam Zientek has been awarded the Tomlinson prize, awarded annually by the World War One Historical Association for the best work of history in English on World War One. Congratulations, Professor Zientek! #skystorians
APRIL 24: we will host Dr. Charlotte Albrecht to lead a conversation about gender, sexuality, and race in Arab American History, and why we need ethnic studies now more than ever. 5pm at the @ucdavis.bsky.social campus. All are welcome.
April 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
APRIL 24: we will host Dr. Charlotte Albrecht to lead a conversation about gender, sexuality, and race in Arab American History, and why we need ethnic studies now more than ever. 5pm at the @ucdavis.bsky.social campus. All are welcome.