History Department

Ph.D. candidate Lucia Luna-Victoria has been awarded a dissertation fellowship from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

The Distinguished Mentoring Awards recognize the vital role mentoring plays in the academic and professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UC Davis.

History Ph.D. Candidate Genesis Lara has received multiple prestigious fellowships to help fund her dissertation research.

Her dissertation project, titled "Revolutionary Dominicanidad: The Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Radical Imaginary," examines the intricacies of revolution, state repression and memory in the Cold War Caribbean through the prism of the Dominican revolutionary period and its aftermath (1961-1980). The awards include:

The History Department congratulates graduate student Samia Errazzouki, who has won three prestigious awards to support her research.

From the Press Release on April 10, 2019: 2019 Fellows—United States and Canada On April 9, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-fifth competition.

Serpa-Flack, who is fluent in Portuguese, will be researching reactions to U.S. policies on decolonization in the 1960s and 1970s, under the guidance of Professor Kathy Olmsted. Ashley has also received numerous smaller grants supporting her research.

The 2018-19 Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture will be delivered by award-winning novelist and documentary-filmmaker John Crowley at 4:10 p.m., Thursday, April 11, at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center.

Please consider supporting the Brenda Medina-Hernandez College Fellowship. Brenda Medina-Hernandez was a recent History PhD at UC Davis who died tragically in July 2017. Her friends have launched this gofundme campaign to establish a fellowship to support California students with their college expenses.

Congratulations to Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste on receiving the UC Davis Chancellor's Award for International Engagement.

Associate Professor Lorena Oropeza was awarded the 2017 Equity Award from the American Historical Association for excellence in recruiting and retaining historians from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.