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...
