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Serpa-Flack, who is fluent in Portuguese, will be researching reactions to U.S. policies on decolonization in the 1960s and 1970s, under the guidance of Professor Kathy Olmsted. Ashley has also received numerous smaller grants supporting her research.

The 2018-19 Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture will be delivered by award-winning novelist and documentary-filmmaker John Crowley at 4:10 p.m., Thursday, April 11, at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center.

Please consider supporting the Brenda Medina-Hernandez College Fellowship. Brenda Medina-Hernandez was a recent History PhD at UC Davis who died tragically in July 2017. Her friends have launched this gofundme campaign to establish a fellowship to support California students with their college expenses.

Congratulations to Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste on receiving the UC Davis Chancellor's Award for International Engagement.

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.

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).

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.”

Historian Gregory Downs has been awarded a 2018 UC Davis Academic Senate's Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award for his leadership in establishing the nation’s first monument to Reconstruction.

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.

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.

Professor Sudipta Sen's new book, Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale University Press, 2019), has made a big splash in newspapers and radio since it came out in January. Check out the reviews:

By Loren Michael Mortimer - On October 26, 2015, the Cross-Cultural Women’s and gender History program (CCWgH) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with a panel discussion made up of faculty, graduate students, and alumni. Leading the panel was Corrie Decker, associate professor of history and ISS Executive Committee member, who currently serves as director of CCWgH. Panelists considered the ways in which the program has enhanced the field of gender history at UC Davis and far beyond by facilitating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue between scholars from diverse fields.