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Congratulations to graduate student Charles Sills, who has been awarded a prestigious Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellowship to study Arabic in Morocco!

The CASA Program is a highly selective Arabic immersion program that offers students with an advanced level of Arabic full scholarships for a year of intensive study. As a 2023-24 CASA Fellow, Charles will study in Meknes, Morocco.

Interested in a class on conspiracy theories?

C-Span captured Professor Kathryn Olmsted's lecture on the "Red Scare" of the 1940's and 50's and how it evolved into a wide-ranging conspiracy theory.

Watch the lecture here.

Ph.D. graduate Habib Saçmalı has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the History Department of Marmara University in Istanbul!

Congratulations Habib!

Congratulations to graduate student Samia Errazzouki, who has been offered a Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University!

Out of more than 900 applicants, only four were selected. Samia will join the Stanford History Department for 2023 and 2024.

In honor of Black History Month, read Professor Diana Davis' article "Decolonizing Veterinary History?" about the first South African veterinarian, Dr. Jotello Soga. 

Davis highlights his important work in combatting rinderpest, an infectious viral disease of cattle.

Read the article here.

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.

Graduate student Daniel Castaneda has been accepted into the university's highly competitive Professors for the Future program!

Daniel will spend the next academic year engaged in workshops and professional development. Congratulations Daniel!

Graduate student Charles Sills has received a prestigious Critical Language Fellowship to support his study of Arabic this summer in Tangier, Morocco.

Congratulations Charles!

Congratulations to Professor Howard Chiang, whose book, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific, is shortlisted for the 2022 Lammy Award in LGBTQ Studies by the Lambda Literary Foundation!

See all the finalists here.

Watch the recording of the event here.

Professor Greg Downs writes about how the city can engage constructively and democratically with the country's history in their attempt at renaming schools.

Read the Op-Ed here.

Professor Stacy Fahrenthold's article, "Ladies Aid as Labor History," has just been published in the November 2021 issue of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. The article examines mutual aid organizations among Syrian immigrant women in Boston.

Check out the article here!

The Association of American Publishers awarded Professor Charles Walker and Liz Clarke the Nonfiction Graphic Novels award for their work, "Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru."

Read the write-up here!

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.

Read Teresa's illuminating opinion piece here.

Professor Downs was recently featured in the NYT discussing Donald Trump's inaccurate claim about Robert E. Lee's postwar life.

Read the article here.