The Department honored 4 undergraduate students at our Spring Banquet who won awards for their research. Anastasia Manvelyan won the Cornerstone Award for a paper entitled “ ‘Well! Burn me, or hang me, I will stand in the truth of Christ!’: Defiance in the Salem Witch Trials.” Manvelyan’s essay brought to life a group of...
Dead bodies hadn’t been all that common at Boy Scout Camp Matulia. Nestled in the rugged, forested, relentlessly hilly southwestern corner of Missouri, it was an accident waiting to happen. Consider the odds. Four hundred and fifty young teenagers arriving every other Monday for a twelve-night camping session. Of course, mishaps occurred. The death of...
Professor Emeritus James Brennan's book Argentina's Missing Bones was recently featured in a review by The Village Voice on " The Disappeared: MAGA's Performative Cruelty is a Warning to Us All."
At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) April 3-6, 2025, two UCR History graduate students were recognized for their important work. The OAH, which met in Chicago this year, is the largest professional society dedicated to United States history, guided by the principles of advocacy, professional integrity, and the advancement of...
UCR history students are diving deep into diverse and compelling research, exploring everything from Native Hawaiian resistance and Soviet cultural diplomacy to Armenian survival narratives and Revolutionary War music parodies. These dynamic investigations were just some of the topics History students presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium. The symposium, held...
This year over twenty History students, supported by twelve History faculty members, presented their research at the 2024 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium. The symposium provides an opportunity for undergraduate students from all disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the UCR community. Over two hundred undergraduate students presented their emerging...
The UCR History Department is pleased to announce the 2024 Kenneth Barkin Graduate Travel Award Endowed Fund which will allow students to consult archives in Europe. See the flyer for more details!
At nearly 800,000 acres, Joshua Tree National Park could comfortably house the entire state of Rhode Island atop its sun-bleached terrain. Here, under skies that boast world-class stargazing once the sun sets, prehistoric-looking Joshua trees mingle with elephant-sized boulders that seem designed to convince you that yes, in fact, you very well might be on...
What do pirates, revolutionaries, deafness, museums, and gambling have in common? These were just some of the research topics History students presented at the 2023 Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium. The symposium provides an opportunity for undergraduate students from all disciplines to share their research and creative activities with the UCR community. Over...
Two UC Riverside doctoral students have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Hays fellowships that will fund their research abroad. Sean Keenan, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in history, and Hannah Snavely, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, were notified on Sept. 23 that they were awarded Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad fellowships. Read Full Article
An homage to her family and future generations of Latino children encapsulates Daisy Herrera’s educational journey. A first-generation Chicana and current Ph.D. student at UC Riverside’s Department of History, Herrera is eager to move on to the next step of her path: a fellowship with the Latino Museum Studies Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum...
When Belen Cardenas, 20, a third-year English major, visited the UC Riverside Library Special Collections and University Archives to research Chicano history she had no idea how personal it would become. She and her classmates visited the Tomás Rivera Library as part of a summer class researching Chicano history. She ended up finding a personal...
On April 29, Dr. Shirley Weber — California’s first African American Secretary of State — spoke to the UCR community about her efforts to create the first statewide reparations task force (CA-AB3121).
A large contingent of UCR’s History Department attended the 42nd annual Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) conference in Las Vegas, held April 1-3, 2022. SOHA California co-delegate Daisy Herrera led the effort, bringing UCR students, alumni, and Public History program director, Dr. Catherine Gudis, to their first SOHA conference. Their presentations offered different oral history...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given several explanations for his country's war on Ukraine, and some are more plausible than others. They include stopping NATO's advance towards Russia's borders, protecting fellow Russians from "genocide" or the baseless claim of "de-Nazifying" Ukraine. The top-ranking priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, meanwhile, has offered a very different...
The public dialogue about the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been dominated by 20th-century historians and political scientists, according to UC Riverside Department of History Professor Georg Michels. Michels, who specializes in early Russian, Ukrainian, and Hungarian history, acknowledges the relevance of 20th-century history, including World War II analogies and Stalinist influences, in framing the...
Spring 2022. [HIST 198I] ***EARN CREDITS TOWARD YOUR B.A. *** Scan, record, & organize content from digitized newspapers in the Riverside County area, for articles about, or referencing cattle-raising on the reservations of the Mission Indian Agency, i.e. the Morongo, Soboba, Cahuilla, or Agua Caliente (Palm Springs) reservations, as well as Native people who worked...
In an essay published in Zocolo, UCR History Professor Michele Renee Salzman considers how we should use the example of the Romans to respond to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Fifth senators took responsibility, accepted the punishment, and restored trust in government after the damaging sacking of Rome by the Visigoths and their...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved a grant of $225,000 to the University of California, Riverside to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures titled "Unarchiving Blackness.” Jody Benjamin, an Assistant Professor in History, is the Principal Investigator of the project. Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, also an Assistant Professor in History is a...
The Sterling Stuckey Lecture Series: Our First Year The Sterling Stuckey Lecture Series grew out of conversations the UC Riverside History Department had in the summer of 2020 about race, racism, policing, violence, and the deep historical roots of our current political climate. In an effort to educate ourselves and develop better tools, vocabulary, and...
