October 7, 2019
On November 20th, Professor Brian DeLay will be a featured speaker for a Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture organized by the Berkeley Program Committee of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, titled “Arms Trafficking: Its Past, Present and Future”.
September 23, 2019
Berkeley News
On September 16th, Associate Professor Brian DeLay spoke on a panel titled “The 2nd Amendment: American Society’s Interpretation Across Time", at the Free Speech Movement Café in Moffitt Library. The panel, which also included Franklin Zimring, Professor of law, Paul Pierson, Professor of political science , and moderator Hannah Shearer, Litigation Director at Giffords Law Center, debated current issues around the Second Amendement from legal, historical, and political science perspectives.
September 19, 2019
The Southern Historical Association has announced Assistant Professor Caitlin Rosenthal as the 2019 winner of the Francis B. Simkins Award, for Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management (Harvard University Press, 2018).
According to the SHA's press release:
September 10, 2019
Today, Associate Professor Elena Schneider was announced as the winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Southern Historical Association. This prestigious prize was awarded for Schneider’s 2019 title, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World.
August 26, 2019
Undergraduate students, please join us on Tuesday, August 27th from 3-5 p.m. in 3335 Dwinelle.
You will hear from History faculty about the whys and wherefores of studying history,
meet our student group leaders, and have all your questions about the major answered by qualified professionals!
Refreshments will be served. And this year – A HUGE FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY!
August 19, 2019
On August 30th, to mark the 400th anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America, UC Berkeley will host an initiative throughout the 2019-2020 academic school year, called "400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice".
August 2, 2019
On August 2nd, Associate Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers was interviewed for The Washington Post about her most recent publication, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. In this interview, Jones-Rogers details her research process, discusses the stereotypes about white women that her research directly challenges, and the public reaction to her findings.
June 24, 2019
On June 20th, assistant professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers was featured on an episode of KQED's radio program Forum, titled "As House Takes Up Reparations Bill, How Should the U.S. Pay Its Debts to the Enslaved?"
May 24, 2019
Ph.D. candidate Craig Johnson has been named as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for 2019. The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. Each Fellow will receive a 12-month award of $25,000 to support their final year of dissertation work.
May 23, 2019
Berkeley News
Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus David Hollinger has been named to the advisory board of a project to produce an ambitious oral history of former President Barack Obama’s life.
The project, launched by the Obama Foundation and Columbia University, is one of the largest oral history projects ever conceived for a president and will serve as a primary-source record that can be used by future historians. Hollinger, an expert in the history of religion and ethnicity in America, says he and other historians on the project’s advisory committee will help researchers “identify historically important questions to be asked of individuals being interviewed.”
"I’m glad to work with the Columbia Oral History Program, since it is, like Berkeley’s, one of the finest in the world,” said Hollinger. More information about this story can be found here.
April 17, 2019
Dr. Sarah Gold McBride, visiting lecturer in the Department of History, has been selected as a recipient of the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs). The award recognizes faculty who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching at Berkeley and in preparing for teaching in future careers. Faculty receive this award based on nominations from their GSIs and letters of support from departmental chairs. The four recipients of this year's award will be honored at a ceremony and reception on May 15th at the Women's Faculty Club.
April 15, 2019
Two UC Berkeley history professors, Brian DeLay and James Vernon, have been awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim fellowships are grants that allow recipients the time and creative freedom to complete their research, books or other projects.
March 27, 2019
The Department of History recently launched the History Diversity Project, its first-ever crowdfunding initiative. The project, envisioned as an ongoing multi-year effort, will support and explore different kinds of diversity in historical scholarship. Donor gifts made to the project will fund a speaker series, as well as student research and travel funding. For 2019-20, the project will focus on Women and Gender in History.
Ethan Shagan has been selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley's most prestigious honor for teaching. The award, bestowed by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching, recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to celebrate Professor Shagan and three other faculty recipients at a ceremony and reception on April 24, 2019 in Sibley Auditorium at 5pm.
March 17, 2019
Assistant Professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers' book, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019) has been recommended by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice selection. Called a "taut and cogent corrective" by Times critic Parul Sehgal, Jones-Rogers' book was reviewed in depth in the Books of the Times section (Feb. 26, 2019).
Assistant Professor Caitlin Rosenthal has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Early Career Faculty. Caitlin's nomination rose from a pool of numerous nominees for this campus-wide award that recognizes faculty for outstanding mentorship of graduate students at UC Berkeley. The award comes with a financial prize and a commemorative plaque, which will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 4:00-6:00 pm, at Anna Head Alumnae Hall.
March 10, 2019
Assistant Professor Caitlin Rosenthal has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Early Career Faculty. Caitlin's nomination rose from a pool of numerous nominees for this campus-wide award that recognizes faculty for outstanding mentorship of graduate students at UC Berkeley. The award comes with a financial prize and a commemorative plaque, which will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 4:00-6:00 pm, at Anna Head Alumnae Hall.
March 5, 2019
Assistant Professor Elena A. Schneider has won the 2019 FEEGI (Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction) Book Prize for her book, The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press, 2018). FEEGI prizes "recognize outstanding and path-breaking scholarship that furthers our historical understanding of the circumstances, causes, and consequences of increased global interaction, worldwide exchanges, and cross-cultural connections in the early modern period."