Our former Public History student Anthea Hartig is interviewed this week on the radio program called ON THE MEDIA. You can find it on NPR or at OTM.org. She is talking about creating archives and the impact of covid 19. The problem is made more difficult because of the digital nature of so much information...
Online proctoring is another area that has drawn new attention with the shift to remote learning. Proctors take control of students’ computers, demand views of students’ workspaces, and even track eye movements to detect possible cheating. “I hate it profoundly. I will never use ProctorU,” said Juliette Levy, an associate professor of history at the...
This year, the annual meeting of the Society of Classical Studies was held in Washington DC, where Prof. Salzman presented "The Constantinian Revolution and the Resilience of Roman Senators." Prof. Salzman, our department chair, presented her research as part of a seminar, "State Elites: Senators, Emperors and Roman Political Culture 25 BCE-400 CE." Prof. Colin...
Upcoming talk! The Ides of March: the Context and Consequences of Caesar's Death On Saturday, March 14, 2020, Dr. Steve Chrissanthos will give a talk, "From the Consulship to the Ides: Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic 59–44 B.C." at the Getty Museum. His talk is part of a series on Julius...
Last fall, Professor Jody Benjamin gave a lecture titled "Dress Codes: Cloth Mobility and Self-Fashioning in Western Africa during the Age of Revolutions" at the University of Chicago's African Studies Workshop The " Distinguished Africanist Lecture series" is designed to bring both "senior and up-and-coming scholars of Africa" to the share their work with the...
Few legal phenomena have been so relevant to premodern European societies as entails, a specific strategy that evolved to protect family inheritances and reproduce elite social status. Continued in modern practices such as trusts and LLCs, entails, as corporate bodies, functioned as a key site of social agency across Europe in the early modern period...
Over the summer during her archival research, Dr. Fariba Zarinebaf was interviewed by the History & Culture program, Medyascope in Istanbul. Watch her interview on YouTube. Medyascope is an independent program devoted to debates and discussion with leading scholars of their contributions to the history of the Ottoman Empire. It is the most watched program...
"Asaka's in-depth research, graceful prose, and expert analysis not only reinterprets Seattle's history but provides a model for urban historians." This article develops the concept of erasure to understand the contemporary memory of Yesler Terrace, a New Deal–era public housing project in Seattle, and why this memory diverges so sharply from the history revealed in...
"My name is Carlos, not Carl," young Carlos Cortés told the teacher at his new school, just before being sent to the principal's office. Seven decades later, Professor Emeritus Cortés emphasizes the importance of embracing one's full background across ethnicity, birthplace, language, and religion. He shares with us the need to honor cultural identity and...
"This article provides a different view of Apalachees in the eighteenth century southeast—not as the victims of English settlers and Creek slavers, but as agents in their own right, who used mobility to maintain their culture and traditions in ways that previous historians have overlooked." READ Article The Bolton-Cutter Award is a $500 prize given...
For Kat Boniface, the history of horses goes far beyond the famous thoroughbred. Boniface, a doctoral student in the history department at the University of California, Riverside, arrived at UCR in 2015. Since then, she’s narrowed the focus of her research from medieval history to horses and horsemanship, topics in a rising field known as...
Weekly podcasts, a virtual reality experience involving Che Guevara, and a learning game with zombies are among the digital platforms a history professor has used to enhance her teaching and make the subject engaging, especially for large classes of hundreds of students. Juliette Levy, an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside, described her...
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 READ MORE Full Schedule
Catherine Gudis, 55, of Los Angeles, has been appointed to the California Cultural and Historical Endowment. Gudis has been an associate professor and director of the public history program at the University of California, Riverside since 2007, where she was an assistant professor from 2005 to 2007. She was director of education at the Los...
If you were once a fourth-grader in California, you probably remember learning about the state’s trail of 21 historic missions. Maybe you even made a model of one of them with Popsicle sticks or papier-mache — or maybe that’s something you’d prefer to forget. Created between 1769 and 1823, the missions are central to California’s...
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...
UC Riverside History Alum Anthea M. Hartig becomes the first woman to be permanent director of Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Read More
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 poet Venantius Fortunatus...
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...
Tuesday, November 27, 1:15-2:45pm - HMNSS 1303 Two UCR PhD students in Ancient Mediterranean History will share upcoming conference presentations: John Haberstroh, “The Social Networks of the Persian Satraps of Lydia,” to be delivered at “Networking in the Ancient World: Tracing, Understanding, and Interpreting Trade and Social Connections in the Ancient World,” University of Liverpool...
