Graduate News

Congratulations to Nina Farnia, Assistant Professor at Albany Law School, UCD Ph.D. 2022!

She received the Julien Mezey Dissertation Prize by the Law & Humanities Association for her dissertation, "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law."

Ph.D. candidate Joel Daniel Olea-Calixto has been announced as a 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow!

His project focuses on how Mexican refugees-turned-technocrats, Indigenous mining laborers, and foreign mining companies shaped Mexico’s mining industry.

You can read more about his project here. 

Congrats Joel!

Congratulations to graduate student Charlotte Terry!

Terry was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship in Mormon Studies at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Congratulations to graduate student Charles Sills, who has been awarded a prestigious Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellowship to study Arabic in Morocco!

The CASA Program is a highly selective Arabic immersion program that offers students with an advanced level of Arabic full scholarships for a year of intensive study. As a 2023-24 CASA Fellow, Charles will study in Meknes, Morocco.

Ph.D. graduate Habib Saçmalı has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the History Department of Marmara University in Istanbul!

Congratulations Habib!

Congratulations to graduate student Samia Errazzouki, who has been offered a Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University!

Out of more than 900 applicants, only four were selected. Samia will join the Stanford History Department for 2023 and 2024.

Graduate student Daniel Castaneda has been accepted into the university's highly competitive Professors for the Future program!

Daniel will spend the next academic year engaged in workshops and professional development. Congratulations Daniel!

Graduate student Charles Sills has received a prestigious Critical Language Fellowship to support his study of Arabic this summer in Tangier, Morocco.

Congratulations Charles!

Teresa Spezio, a Ph.D. graduate in history from UC Davis in 2011, was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times to discuss the current oil spill at Huntington Beach.

Read Teresa's illuminating opinion piece here.

The History department is proud to announce that the Davis Humanities Institute has selected two History graduate students, Brianna Tafolla Riviere and David Morales, to join the 2021 cohort of Mellon Public Scholars.