Department News
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Our 2012 Graduates Give Back For the first time in the history of our department, or any UCB department, our graduating majors are initiating the donation of a class gift specifically for their home unit. The New Alumni Challenge will support this initiative by matching and thus doubling the contributions of our students. And the chair of the department has pledged to... Read More |
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Commencement 2012: Information for Guests History Department Commencement Ceremony When to Arrive:... Read More |
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Revered Historian Barbara Daly Metcalf to Give Keynote Address at Commencement Professor Barbara Daly Metcalf,an esteemed scholar of South Asia who specializes on the Muslim populations of India and Pakistan, will give the keynote commencement address at the Department of History’s Graduation Ceremony on May 15. She was elected as president of both the American Historical Association and the Association for Asian... Read More |
Professor Ethan Shagan Named Department Chair  Professor Ethan Shagan has been named as Chair of the Department of History. Shagan is preceded by Professor Mary Elizabeth Berry, who concludes her five-year tenure as department chair in June. A British historian by training, Shagan has published widely on the15th to the 18th centuries, with an emphasis on religion and politics in... Read More |
Geoff Koziol Pens New Manuscript “The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas”  Department of History Professor Geoff Koziol has authored a new book titled The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) from Brepols Publishers. Based upon a ‘performative’ interpretation of royal charters, The Politics of Memory and Identity offers a new... Read More |
History Alumna Earns Prestigious Bancroft Prize  UC Berkeley Department of History graduate Anne F. Hyde (Ph.D. 1988) has been named winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize for her book Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860 (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2011). Awarded by the trustees of Columbia University, the Bancroft Prize recognizes... Read More |
Susanna Elm Authors New Book “Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church”  Department of History Professor Susanna Elm has penned a new book titled “Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome.” This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken... Read More |
Welcome New Faculty: Prof. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann  Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman, a social and intellectual historian of modern Germany, whose work has spanned both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, joined the department in January. Hoffmann received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Bielefeld. Along the way, he was the recipient of numerous... Read More |
Visit by Prominent Modern Historian Jürgen Kocka  The Department of History was pleased to welcome Jürgen Kocka to Berkeley on February 16 for a departmental colloquium. Kocka taught Social History at the University of Bielefeld (1973-1988) and History of the Industrial World at the Free University of Berlin (1988-2009). He was a Permanent Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study (... Read More |
Digital Humanities Project Now Underway  The Digital Humanities Project is part of a larger initiative to introduce new collaborative technologies into our department. This project has two goals. First, a new online community for our graduate students is being added to the departmental website. This graduate history network, managed by the Digital Humanities Coordinator, will house... Read More |
In Memory: Professor Emeritus Delmer Myers Brown, 1909-2011  DELMER MYERS BROWN, 1909-2011 University of California, Berkeley Professor Emeritus in Japanese History The following obituary was prepared by Ren Brown, the son of Delmer Brown. Professor Delmer M. Brown died of a stroke on November 9, 2011. He will long be remembered as a scholar of Japanese... Read More |