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Daniel Castaneda accepted into Professors for the Future Program
Graduate student Daniel Castaneda has been accepted into the university's highly competitive Professors for the Future program!
Charles Sills receives Critical Language Fellowship
Graduate student Charles Sills has received a prestigious Critical Language Fellowship to support his study of Arabic this summer in Tangier, Morocco.
UC Davis Historians Bring Women’s Stories to National Parks
UC Davis historians have made the stories of the roles women played in shaping the landscape accessible to historians, park employees, resource centers and the general public for sites in the Pacific and Western United States, where the national parks began.
Teresa Spezio Featured in Los Angeles Times Op-Ed
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.
Daniel Castaneda and Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchland Appointed as Marchand Public Engagement Interns
Congratulations to history graduate students Daniel Castaneda and Vanessa Madrigal-Lauchand!
Miguel Novoa Receives Boren Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD student Miguel Novoa for receiving a Boren Fellowship for his research in Peru!
Three History PhD Students Receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Congratulations to Julio Aguilar, Lucia Luna-Victoria Indacochea, and Dmitri Brown for receiving the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
Dmitri Brown Awarded Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and a Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM
Congratulations to PhD student Dmitri Brown for receiving multiple fellowships!
Sean Gallagher Awarded 2-Year Postdoc at the David Center for the American Revolution
Congratulations to Sean Gallagher, who will continue his research at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia!
Joel Calixto Awarded Fellowship with the Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism
Congratulations to Joel Calixto, a second-year PhD student, for his fellowship with the Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism at UC Davis for Spring 2021!
Melanie Peinado's Article Featured in Recent Issue of AHA Perspectives
Melanie Peinado, a PhD candidate in Latin American History at UC Davis, writes about historians' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
History Graduate Students Selected as 2021 Mellon Public Scholars
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.
Loren Michael Mortimer receives ACLS post-doctoral fellowship
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.
Latin American History Graduate Students Receive Fellowships & Appointments
The History Department would like to congratulate numerous current and former Ph.D. students in Latin American history for their recent accomplishments.
History Department Statement on COLA Movement
We the undersigned officers of the History Department recognize the serious problem many graduate students face in paying increased costs of housing and support efforts to improve their conditions. We call on the administration to refrain from any retaliation against graduate students involved in current actions. We also call on the administration to pursue subsidizing graduate student housing, including in housing currently under construction.
Serpa Wins Bemis Dissertation Research Grant
The History Department congratulates doctoral candidate Ashley Serpa, who has received the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
UCD History Ph.D. Tyson Reeder (2016) has a new book: Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots
Dr. Reeder, who received his PhD from history in 2016, published Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolutions (2019) with University of Pennsylvania Press.
Graduate Students Publish Edited Volume
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.
Luna-Victoria Wins IGCC Dissertation Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate Lucia Luna-Victoria has been awarded a dissertation fellowship from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Lara receives multiple fellowships
History Ph.D. Candidate Genesis Lara has received multiple prestigious fellowships to help fund her dissertation research.
Errazzouki wins multiple research awards
The History Department congratulates graduate student Samia Errazzouki, who has won three prestigious awards to support her research.
Serpa-Flack Wins Fulbright Scholarship
The History Department congratulates doctoral candidate Ashley Serpa-Flack, who has received a Fulbright award for her dissertation research in Portugal during the next academic year.
Fellowship established in memory of Brenda Medina-Hernandez
Friends of a recent UC Davis History PhD, Brenda Medina-Hernandez, created a GoFundMe campaign for a fellowship in her memory.
Congratulations to Ashley Serpa!
Ashley was granted an Oberlin College Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant to conduct research in the Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo Mondlane. Mondlane was the leader of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). Ashley will make a research visit to the Oberlin College Archives in the summer.
Congratulations to History graduate student, Ashley Serpa!
Ashley has recently been awarded the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. This award will allow her to conduct research for her dissertation.
History graduate student Carrie Alexander to work for the Delta Protection Commission
Carrie Alexander has been hired to manage the Delta Protection Commission's historical and cultural archives.
Graduate Application Deadline changed to January 5
There has been a change in the application deadline for Graduate Students applying to the Department of History
Judge Wins Multiple Grants
Congratulations to History graduate student, Rajbir Judge, who was recently award two grants for his dissertation research.
Jessica Fowler wins Pacific Rim Research Graduate Fellowship
The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies has award the Pacific Rim Research Graduate Fellowship for her research on the Inquisition and Heresy in the Spanish Empire. Way to go, Jessica!
Rachel Reeves wins Research Grants
Rachel Reeves has won a $7,500 predoctoral research grant from the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies. This fellowship will cover three months in residency at the Clark Library at UCLA, where Reeves will work on her dissertation entitled “Politeness and Piety of Eighteenth-Century Anglican Clergymen.” She has also won a $2,100 fellowship from the Lewis Walpole Library in Connecticut, where she will also conduct dissertation research.
Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabria wins Research Grant
Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabrina has won a $2,000 research grant from the International Seminar in the History of the Atlantic World. This money will fund overseas travel for her dissertation project, entitled "Dangerous Presence: Pirate and Spanish Colonialism in the Vice-royalty of Peru, 1570-1750."
Cristian Castro receives fellowship
Cristian Castro has received a fellowship to participate in a week-long workshop in Brazil on Globalization of Culture in the Nineteenth Century at the Sao Paulo School of Advanced Studies. Held at USP and UNICAMP, the lead organizer is Roger Chartier.
