Prof. Lisa Materson will present her new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY Friday, Nov 7, @ Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras 8:00 a.m. (California) / 11:00 a.m. (Puerto Rico) and will stream on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/CIHUPR

Professor Chuck Walker in Ayacucho, Peru hands over a newly digitized archive to ANFASEP, an organization of relatives of victims of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict. Walker leads a team funded by UCLA-Modern Endangered Archives Program that is digitizing three major human rights archives in Peru.

Congratulations to UC Davis PhD Alum Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge, who won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize at the American Academy of Religion! Read more at this link aarweb.org/news/2025-aa...

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Professor of History, discussing her new book _America Under the Hammer_ (UPenn, 2024) lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/auctions-ear...

New publication by Sabujkoli Mukherjee, History PhD candidate specializing in South Asian and environmental history. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"Modern Palestinian History" contextualizes the 1948 Nakba–the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes with Israel’s establishment–with sources ranging from Ottoman maps to British commission reports and Palestinian writings and poetry.

"The Arab American Immigrant Experience" narrates the history of Arab immigration to the United States and how these immigrants navigated racial stereotyping. Focused attention is paid to how Arab Americans were represented in popular culture.

"Middle Eastern Jewish Life and Early Zionism, 1880-1920" presents a variety of voices from Arabic-speaking and Sephardic Jewish communities alongside European Jewish perspectives.

"Premodern Elite Culture in Andalusia" introduces students to the multicultural world of medieval Iberia, where Muslim, Jewish, and Christian elites shared cultural practices across political and religious divides.

A yearlong partnership between the Department of History and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has resulted in the publication of four new inquiry sets on Middle Eastern and Arab American history!

Prof. Cecilia Tsu led an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate and graduate students on this research project! At #ucdavis undergrads have the opportunity to graduate level #research. www.ucdavis.edu/student-rese...

Justin Sollit has won the Walter Woodfill Prize for the best undergraduate research paper for the 2024-25 academic year in recognition for “Medical Reform Debates for the Union Army After the First Battle of Bull Run” Congratulations, Justin! www.instagram.com/p/DMl7sxLPGi...

Stuart has spent her career illuminating some of the most complex and haunting parts of the human past, from early modern justice systems to the unsettling phenomenon of “suicide by proxy” in 18th-century Germany. Read more about her work at the L&S Magazine!

History professor Kathy Stuart at @ucdavis.bsky.social has recently been chosen by her students to receive the Excellence in Education Award! In her nomination, students cited her empathy, clarity, and the way she connects the darkest moments of the past to timeless human struggles.

Congratulations to PhD student Xiwen Yang, awarded the runner-up Scholz Prize for her paper titled "“The Sufi Reimagining of Copernican Cosmology in Eighteenth-Century Anatolia”. The yearly Scholz prize recognizes the best paper written in the 2nd-year research seminar (HIS 203).

Prof Marian Schlotterbeck wins #ucdavis Humanities Institute Fellowship for Collaborative Research supporting the publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies. lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

Professor Charles Walker is working on a groundbreaking digitization project in Peru, bringing fragile human rights documents online. #skystorians #Peru #humanrights

Professor Lisa Materson’s new book RADICAL SOLIDARITY receives an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians! Congratulations, Professor Materson! #skystorians

The Department of History is saddened by the passing of our colleague Mario Biagioli, who taught at UC Davis from 2010 to 2019. Read more about Dr. Biagioli at the link below and in our bio. history.ucdavis.edu/mario-biagioli

Join us tomorrow, Monday, May 19 for a Symposium on Puerto Rico and the Diaspora organized by the Davis-Puerto Rico Initiative. 9:00-3:00, Sproul 912. History Professors Lisa Materson and José Juan Pérez Meléndez are among the speakers. #puertorico #skystorians

Congratulations to Sofia Hosseinzadeh on her 2nd Place Lang Prize win for her honors thesis “‘How that Stevenson Rumor Started’: The 1952 Election and Cold War Gender and Sexuality”! #skystorians

Amy Fallas will join the History Department Fall 2025 as a #ucdavis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow to work on her book manuscript “Their Own Poor: Communal Identities, Charitable Societies, and the Making of Sectarianism in Modern Egypt, 1879-1939.”

Join us Wed 5/21, 12-1:30 PM, for a discussion of the methodological and historical challenges of studying violence in Peru. This Spanish language event features international social science and humanities scholars. SSH 4217. History Department Library. #skystorians

Congratulations to UC Davis PhD candidate ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anoba who won a Huntington/Birmingham Exchange Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year! He will be at the Cadbury Research Centre, University of Birmingham, working on Orisà Religion's encounters with Western-articulated modernities.

Don Romesburg, Historian and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies @ Sonoma State University, will discuss his new book, Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School (Rutgers UP, 2025), Wed, 5/21, 4pm, 3201 Hart Hall!

UC Davis PhD student Charlotte Hansen Terry has been appointed as Assistant Professor in U.S. history at Utah State University Uintah Basin campus starting this fall. Congratulations Charlotte!

#ucdavis History PhD Seth Rockman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_! Congratulations! www.pulitzer.org/finalists/22... #pulitzerprize #skystorians

#ucdavis History Ph.D. Kathleen DuVal wins the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for _Native Nations: A Millennium in North America_! Congratulations! www.pulitzer.org/winners/22696 #PulitzerPrize #skystorians

Professor Stacy Fahrenthold & California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) deputy director Beth Slutsky discuss bringing "academically grounded lessons about Middle Eastern history into K-12 classrooms." diversity.ucdavis.edu/news/bringin...

Graduate student Brianna Tafolla Riviere, Ph.D. expected June 2025, has been appointed Assistant Professor of History @bostonu.bsky.social starting Fall 2025! Congratulations, Brianna! www.bu.edu/history/2025... #ucdavis #bostonuniversity

Professor Adam Zientek has been awarded the Tomlinson prize, awarded annually by the World War One Historical Association for the best work of history in English on World War One. Congratulations, Professor Zientek! #skystorians

APRIL 24: we will host Dr. Charlotte Albrecht to lead a conversation about gender, sexuality, and race in Arab American History, and why we need ethnic studies now more than ever. 5pm at the @ucdavis.bsky.social campus. All are welcome.

This week! On Wed, April 23 (7pm EST), Professor Stacy Fahrenthold joins Titas Chakraborty and Justin Jackson for a discussion of their new books with the @lawcha.bsky.social virtual series. Everyone is welcome and you can register at bit.ly/LAWCHAAprilBT

Featuring research by Professors Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa Materson!

The AHA’s Congressional Briefing from March on the history of deportation will air on C-SPAN American History TV on Saturday, April 19, at 3:30 PM ET, and will be available to watch on C-SPAN American History TV’s website. 🗃️

REMINDER: TOMORROW!

Professor Andrés Reséndez was elected to the Society of American Historians! Congratulations, Professor Reséndez! sah.columbia.edu #skystorians

This evening Professor Greg Downs appeared on MSNBC’s #PoliticsNation with the Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the administration’s war on #history. #skystorians us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/tczpz2

Where did Californians stand during the Civil War? Thurs.4/17, 12 PM, Louisa Brandt, #ucdavis history Ph.D. candidate, will speak on Zoom about the diversity of views in the Golden State. Register: ucberk.li/civil-war-roundtable Talk hosted by the Bancroft Library.

REMINDER: TOMORROW!

Greg Downs, #UCDavis, said it warps history. “A country that cannot tell the truth about itself cannot assess what has led it to moments of greatness in the past ..." www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p... @history-ucdavis.bsky.social

Ph.D. student Louisa Brandt will give a talk, "We Pledge Allegiance: Public Demonstrations of Patriotism in Civil War California" @ with the Bancroft Library Roundtable, 4/17, 12PM. Register for Zoom link. www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancro...

Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month by reading these books by #ucdavis authors, including two by Professor Stacy Fahrenthold! #skystorians lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

Prof. Kathy Stuart was awarded an “Excellence in Teaching for Global Learning Award” by @ucdavisglobal.bsky.social for her design and teaching of the "Vienna: Crossroads of Central Europe" Summer Abroad Program. Congratulations, Professor Stuart! globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/teachi.../20...

We are proud to host Dr. Charlotte Karem Albrecht on April 24 to discuss her work in Arab American gender and sexuality history! She will share research from her book, Possible Histories, and lead a conversation on the significance of ethnic studies during times of repression.

Professor Lisa G. Materson discusses her new book _Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence_ with @feministkelly.bsky.social on the Unsung History Podcast: www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/RuthReynolds/

The AHA has released a statement condemning "the dismantling of federal departments and agencies through the indiscriminate termination of federal employees and elimination of programs, including historical offices.” 🗃️

Join us as Prof. Ali Anooshahr, historian of Mughal India and the “Persianate World” during the early modern era, introduces his new book, _Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)_. 5/22/2025, 12 pm, SS&H 2203 Andrews Conference Room. #skystorians

The UC Davis History department would like to congratulate Manoel Rendeiro Neto on his new position as a Yale Postdoctoral Associate for 2025-2026 and an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Yale University starting Fall 2026! Congratulations Manoel!