Graduate News

We are thrilled to announce that the American Council of Learned Societies has awarded our newly-minted Ph.D. (2019), Mike Mortimer, one of their 45 Emerging Voices Fellowships.

History Ph.D. candidates Lawrence Abrams and Kaleb Knoblauch are the editors of "Historians Without Border: New Studies in Multidisciplinary History," recently published by Routledge.

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

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.

Graduate student Kelly Kean was selected to attend the University of Virginia and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts' competitive Summer Institute. This year's focus will be the Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. The program allows students to "study the region's economics, social and cultural history through a multidisciplinary approach that includes current methods of research, interpretation, preservation, and analysis of material culture.