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Professor Olmsted's op-ed discusses what Watergate can tell us about the current impeachment inquiry and what lies ahead.

Read the Nov. 15th op-ed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/15/watergate-led-sweeping-reforms-heres-what-well-need-after-trump/?arc404=true.

Professor Sen's recently released book, Ganges: the Many Pasts of an Indian River has been reviewed by the New York Review of Books

Read the review here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/10/river-ganges/?fbclid=IwAR3P9k25uvEJ0aOkNE4lsv6w5_ydBSnQ7uiFtlbAbJ3dI8MVR9R0nYA94VA

Professor Tezcan comments on Kurdish oppression amidst Turkey's cease-fire in Syria for the LA Times.

Read the Op-Ed here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-17/turkey-kurds-syria-invasion-ceasefire-erdogan

Check out Dr. Reeder's blog to learn more: https://newbooksnetwork.com/tyson-reeder-smugglers-pirates-and-patriots-free-trade-in-the-age-of-revolution-u-pennsylvania-press-2019/

Professor Olmsted has written an essay in a newly published catalog for New York’s George Adams Gallery exhibition of Arneson’s work. Robert Arneson/The Anti-War Works: 1982-1986 is on view at the Manhattan gallery through Oct. 26.

Read more here: https://www.ucdavis.edu/arts/blog/uc-davis-historian-chronicles-robert-arneson-anti-nuke-art-new-york-exhibition

Professor Greg Downs offers his take on the impeachment inquiry for the Washington Post:

"Impeachment is the right call even if the Senate keeps President Trump in office: Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump’s worst behaviors." https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/07/impeachment-is-right-…

In this interview, Professor Walker provides context for the political crisis unfolding in Perú this week:

http://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/aOJPwJG0Qa

Check out Professor Olmsted’s piece, “Impeaching Trump Will Be Harder Than Impeaching Nixon” published in the October 2, 2019 edition of the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/impeachment-trump-nixon.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Delve into popular conspiracy theories this month with a new podcast from Kathryn Olmsted, professor of history in the UC Davis College of Letters and Science.

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.

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.