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From the Chair: I would like to welcome you to the Department of History at UC Riverside. Our 30 full time faculty cover a range of areas, themes and issues that range all periods of history around the globe. We have earned recognition for international and national excellence in research and teaching. Our undergraduate offerings emphasize critical thinking, writing, and research. Our graduate program offers students the opportunity to focus on one or more areas of concentration by working closely with a scholar in her/his field. The Department of History at UC Riverside is an exciting place to study, live and develop a passion for history at all levels. And since history is an important component of any degree program, we offer exciting, interdisciplinary opportunities as well.
Dr. Michele R. Salzman, Department Chair
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Another Greece, Sometimes Forgotten Denver Graninger in Conversation with Jordan Cohen and Jeff Chu
March 08, 2021 @ 2:00 pm
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94317113684
In this next faculty colloquium organized by the Colloquia and Workshops Committee, Professor Denver Graninger will discuss with UCR History Graduate Students Jordan Cohen and Jeff Chu his current book project on ancient Larisa, an important city in the northern Greek world. As open to the more famous and better documented cities…
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"'Fresh Garlands...Upon Broken Statues': Racism and the Re-invention of Atlantic 'Traditions'" N. D. B Connolly
March 11, 2021 @ 4:00 pm
Zoom - https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckdu2rrDIpG9DTKD4fWss-KMLC5eD46jUd
N. D. B Connolly is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, where he occupies the Herbert Baxter Adams chair and directs the program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. Connolly’s 2014 book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, received awards from the Urban…
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07 Mar
Graduate Students Evan Suda, Joshua Little, Carly Maris present @UCRideas Mellon AIS conference, "Polarity, Diversity, Confluence"
Polarity, Diversity, Confluence
Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies Conference
March 7 & 8, 2019
An interdisciplinary exploration in the intersections of economic inequality, religious identity, contested histories and diversity in higher education
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07 Jan
AIA: J. Haberstroh, “A Run Through Time: Travels in Ancient and Modern Greece,” Riverside Public Library, Saturday, January 19, 2-3:30pm
What is it like to live and work in Greece for a year? John Haberstroh will share his experiences as a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). As an ancient historian immersed in the world of classics and archaeology, John will offer his perspectives on the benefits of travel, discuss his…
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05 Dec
Richard Rush UCR History Doctoral student presents at 116th Annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Association
This past quarter, I had the opportunity to propose new authorship for the Latin poem, "Pange lingua gloriosi" to a group of ancient scholars from across the Pacific Coast at Western Washington University. My proposal that the fifth-century priest Claudianus Mamertus was the actual author of this poem, and not the sixth-century…
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09 Nov
Dr. Michele Speaks at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton
On Oct. 11, Michele Renee Salzman, professor in the Department of History, presented a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
The talk was titled: “Why Gibbon Was Wrong: 472 and the Fall of Rome.” Salzman spoke about her new book, “The ‘Falls’ of Rome: Social and Religious History of the City, 273-573.”
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