Current News
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.
Professor Jean-Baptiste wins Chancellor's Award for International Engagement
Congratulations to Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste on receiving the UC Davis Chancellor's Award for International Engagement.
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.
Prof. Sudipta Sen's new book on the Ganges making a splash in the media!
Professor Sudipta Sen's new book, Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale University Press, 2019), has made a big splash in the media since it came out in January. Click here for links to the reviews and more.
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.
Professor Chiang wins the Yu Ying-shih Award in Humanities Research
Professor Chiang won the Yu Ying-shih Award in Humanities Research (Monographic Book Category) to write his next book on the history of Chinese psychoanalysis and transcultural psychiatry.
Department of History's Statement of Values
This campus and others have periodically been the target of hateful posters and other media designed to incite fear and loathing of various groups of people. Recent incidents have attempted to encourage anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, and anti-African-American hatred, among others. As historians, we are all familiar with the frightful history of this type of dehumanizing rhetoric, and aware of its devastating cost to the communities in which it is mobilized and tolerated.
Professor Cynthia Brantley, 1943-2018
The Department of History mourns the passing of Dr. Cynthia Brantley, Emerita professor of African history and friend to many at the university.
Professor Ari Kelman receives Graduate Mentoring Award
Professor Ari Kelman has been awarded a Graduate Studies Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentoring Award. He will be formally honored at the Graduate Studies Honors and Awards Ceremony, Wednesday, May 23, 4pm-6pm at the ARC Ballroom.
Greg Downs elected to the Society of American Historians
Professor Greg Downs was elected to the Society of American Historians in recognition of the literary and scholarly distinction of his historical writing.
UCD History Department awarded AHA Career Diversity Implementation Grant
The UCD Department of History has been chosen as a recipient of the American Historical Association's 2018–20 Career Diversity Implementation Grants, part of the Career Diversity for Historians initiative.
Louis Warren wins Bancroft Prize
Louis Warren, the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of U.S. Western History at UC Davis, was named winner of a 2018 Bancroft Prize for his book, "God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America."
Chuck Walker awarded ACLS Fellowship
Professor Chuck Walker has been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for next year for his research on the history of the Sendero Luminoso in Peru.
Greg Downs wins Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award
Professor Greg Downs has been awarded UCD Academic Senate's Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award, which honors "exceptional faculty who continue the tradition and demonstrate the commitment of the Davis campus to public service.”
Louis Warren wins R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship
Professor Louis Warren was awarded the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellowship in the Humanities at the Huntington Library.
Rachel St. John awarded Huntington Library fellowship
Associate Professor Rachel St. John won a year-long fellowship at the Huntington Library.
Cecilia Tsu wins ACLS fellowship
Associate Professor Cecilia Tsu was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Omnia El Shakry wins both Stanford Humanities Center fellowship and UC Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship
Professor Omnia El Shakry has been awarded both the Stanford Humanities Center fellowship and the UC Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship for next year to support her research on the encounter between Catholicism and Islam in twentieth-century Egypt.
Howard Chiang wins ISS Junior Faculty Research Grant
Assistant Professor Howard Chiang has been awarded the Institute for Social Sciences Junior Faculty Research Grant for his project on "The Cultural Revolution of the Unconscious."
Ian Campbell wins American Councils Research Fellowship
Associate Professor Ian Campbell has been awarded an Advanced Research Fellowship from the American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Program. This fellowship will support a full academic year of research in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2018-19 for Campbell's second book project, The Bleeding Edges: Borderlands Violence and Russia's Enduring Empire, 1800-1917, a study of the culture and practice of counterinsurgency around multiple peripheries of the Russian Empire.
Lorena Oropeza Wins Equity Prize
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.