Fall 2013 newsletter
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From the Chair Dear Friends, As you read through this newsletter, you will get a sense of the vibrancy of the UCLA History Department. You will learn of the accomplishments of our world-renowned faculty. You will come to meet one of our outstanding new Ph.Ds., Terenjit Sevea, who won the inaugural Thomas Lifka Prize for the best dissertation in the Department. And you will hear the story of our HistoryCorps, a group of dedicated undergraduates who mix classroom studies with work as historical interns for a variety of private and public sector organizations. What may be less evident, though no less important, is the role played by our thousands of alumni after they leave us. They are our best ambassadors, infusing historical depth into every corner of society—from universities to banks to museums to schools. The knowledge they bring with them adds nuance and perspective to all that they do. They make clear that the relevant question today is not the somewhat skeptical “what does a history degree prepare you for,” but rather “what DOESN’T a history degree prepare you for!” We are delighted and proud of our alumni. They enable us to realize our mission as a great public university. They are also our active partners in providing material sustenance for UCLA and the Department. Without them—without YOU—we wouldn’t be able to be one of the top history departments in the world. There are many ways to be involved. One important path is to connect back to the Department and help guide future graduates to meaningful employment. We want to continue to build a thick web of relations with our alumni on which our new grads can rely. Please do let us know of any ideas, prospects, and opportunities that you might have to share with our new grads. (I can be reached at myers@history.ucla.edu.) Another key way to support the Department is by making a financial contribution. As a public institution that draws less and less of its budget from public sources, we must be proactive in seeking out partners to support the work of the Department. If you are a proud History Bruin—or if you understand how important historical knowledge is to society—I invite you to invest in the future by investing in the study of the past. Donate to the Department ( GIVE HERE ) and send the message that history truly matters! Many thanks for all you have done for the Department. Warmly,
David N. Myers Robert N. Burr Department Chair
Faculty Highlights Peter Loewenberg was unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Deutschen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung in recognition of his scientific and clinical contributions to national and international psychoanalysis.
David Sabean has been elected to serve in 2013 as President of the Central European History Society. He has previously served as Vice-President of the organization.
Jan Reiff is serving as Chair of the Academic Senate from 20132014. She was first elected to serve in 2012/13 as Vice Chair/ Chair Elect
Sarah Abrevaya Stein has been named co-editor, with David Biale (UCD), of the Stanford University Press Series in Jewish History and Culture. She is also assuming coeditorship, with Tony Michaels and Kenneth Moss, of the prestigious journal Jewish Social Studies.
John H. M. Laslett
J. Arch Getty
sunshine was never
practicing stalinism: bol-
enough: los angeles
sheviks, boyars, and the
workers, 1880-2010
persistence of tradition
University of California Press, 2012
Yale University Press, 2013
Ivan T. Berend
Joyce Appleby
case studies on modern european economy: entrepreneurship, inventions, and institutions
shores of knowledge: new world discoveries and the scientific imagination
Routledge, 2013
W.W. Norton & Company, 2013
Brenda Stevenson
Robert Dallek
the contested murder of latasha harlins: justice, gender, and the origins of
camelot’s court: inside the kennedy white house
the la riots
Oxford University Press, 2013
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Harper Collins Publishers, 2013
Sanjay Subrahmanyam delivered his inaugural lecture, entitled “Aux origines de l’histoire globale,” as Chair and Professor of Early Modern Global History at the Collège de France on November 28, 2013.
Margaret Jacob and Teofilo Ruiz were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.
Edward A. Alpers the indian ocean in world history
Michael Meranze is the co-editor and main writer of online blog Remaking the University. His most recent article is titled, “Curating the Humanities.”
Mary Terrall will have a visiting fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from January through March 2014.
NEW FACULTY BOOKS Sanjay Subrahmanyam is indian civilization a myth?: fictions and histories
Oxford University Press, 2013
Permanent Black, 2013
Vinay Lal, ed.
Katsuya Hirano
the oxford anthology of the modern indian city
the politics of dialogic imagination: power and popular culture in early mod-
volume i: the city in its
ern japan
plenitude
University of Chicago Press, 2013
volume ii: making and un-
David N. Myers, ed. & Alexander Kaye, ed.
making the city-politics, culture, and life forms
the faith of fallen jews: yo-
sef hayim yerushalmi and the writing of jewish history
Oxford University Press, 2013
Brandeis University Press, 2013
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NEWS New Faculty Katsuya Hirano
Associate Professor Early Modern/Modern Japanese History
Katsuya Hirano received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. His teach-
ing and research explore the intersection between history and critical theory with a focus on questions of ideology, political economy, and subject/subjectivity. His current book project examines the correlative operations of capitalism and racism in the making of the Japanese empire. The project seeks to deepen our understanding of the history of Ainu experiences through the perspectives of global histories of empire, capitalism, and colonialism. He is also co-editing a translation volume, entitled The Archive of Revolution: Marxist Historiography in Modern Japan, with Professor Gavin Walker. This volume will be the first major introduction to the rich yet long neglected Japanese Marxist historiography that played a decisive role in the formation of critical social science in modern Japan.
Jessica Goldberg
Associate Professor Late Antiquity/Early Medieval History
Jessica Goldberg studies the medieval history of the Mediterranean basin, Christian Eu-
rope, and the Islamic world, specializing in economic and legal institutions and culture. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 2006. She is currently working on a monograph on the emergence of Genoa in the eleventh and twelfth centuries as a major player in the Mediterranean world, and re-examining the bases of the city’s economic and political growth and centrality within the context of both European and Mediterranean institutional development. She is also leading a multiinstitutional working group to develop a research website to make these sources more accessible to scholars, teachers, and the interested public.
Stephanie Koscak
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow Late Antiquity/Early Medieval History
Stephanie Elaine Koscak received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2013. She is a
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of the Material Text in the History Department and the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. She specializes in the cultural history of eighteenth-century Britain, early modern Europe, and the Atlantic. This year she is completing research for her book (from her dissertation), titled The Age of Monarchical Reproduction: Pictures, Print, and the Rise of Popular Royalism in England, 1649-1760. This work explores how images of the monarchy, with the unprecedented explosion of print and engraving, transformed the exercise of state power during the birth of a consumer society and the emergence of representative politics. She was also a former book review editor at the Victorian Studies journal.
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NEWS Student Awards
THOMAS LIFKA DISSERTATION PRIZE WINNER The UCLA History Department
is pleased to announce that Dr. Terenjit Sevea has been awarded the inaugural Thomas Lifka Best Dissertation Prize. The Prize was given by History Board member Tom Lifka, a trained historian and former UCLA administrator, as a way of recognizing and furthering the high quality scholarship produced by our Department’s graduate students. The initial Lifka Prize winner, Terenjit Sevea, is an historian of South and Southeast Asian history who has assumed the position of assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Terenjit’s dissertation, which required extraordinary historical breadth, linguistic range, and conceptual nuance, was written under the supervision of Professor Nile Green. His dissertation focuses upon peripatetic, godly and technologically advanced Muslim miracle-workers or pawangs who operated upon and were pivotal to rice, mining, game and armed frontiers in 19th and early 20th century Malaya. It is written with an understanding that a study of miracleworkers is fruitful in providing a microcosm of the characteristics of particular socioeconomic strata and socioeconomic trends. Redressing the conspicuous academic silence on these miracle workers, this dissertation explores how a
Pawangs on the Malay Frontier:
Miraculous Intermediaries of Rice, Ore, Beasts and Guns by
Terenjit Sevea variety of socio economic activities in 19th and early 20th century Malaya were premised and dependent upon the miraculous expertise of pawangs; namely agricultural colonization, forest clearing, rice production, alluvial tin and gold mining, elephant trapping and the bearing of hand-held firearms. Moreover, this dissertation uncovers a series of sophisticated cosmopolitan worlds in which miracleworkers capitalized upon their predominance within subaltern communities as spectacular intercessors of eclectic supernatural beings, and in which networks of indigenous and non-indigenous entrepreneurs engaged in extracting the natural resources of the Peninsula. Terenjit will be presented his award at the American Historical Association’s 128th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
Cassia Roth recently won the 2013 Coordinating Council for Women in History/Berks Award for her dissertation “Reproduction, Medicine, and the law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1890-1940.” The CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing. CCWH seeks to broaden both the organization of women historians and the study of women’s history to represent as fully as possible the diversity of women in the United States and internationally.
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STUDENT PROFILE Undergraduate Serena Wu is a fourth year History
major. She entered UCLA undeclared and explored a variety of classes offered by different departments on campus. After taking courses led by History faculty, including Professors Patrick Geary and Teofilo Ruiz, she quickly realized how much she was drawn to the subject. She recalls: “Courses like Medieval history with Teo made history so real. It felt as if you were actually present in that time period.” Serena’s parents, who fully supported her decision to become a History major, are also very much immersed in history. She and her parents enjoy discussing history together, and this was especially helpful when choosing a research topic for her senior honors thesis. She is currently working on her senior thesis under the guidance of Professor Andrea Goldman. Her research examines the historical significance and memory of the Soong Sisters, Soong Ai-ling, Soong Chingling, and Soong Mei-ling. Serena notes the shifting historical perspectives on these sisters in books, press, and even film. She explains, “Without doubt, all three were influential figures in the early 20th century. It is interesting to see society’s perception of the sisters change over the course of their lives.” In addition to her writing, Serena serves as President of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (PAT). She thanks Undergraduate Advisor, Paul Padilla, for helping her get more invol
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-ved within the major. Through Paul, she was able to find out about PAT and the undergraduate history journal, Quaestio. As President, her mission is to make the History major more accessible to undergraduate students. She wants to provide other students with the same support she received from Paul. “Many times, students remain unfamiliar with the Department and their professors during their years in school. I think increasing outreach and visibility is very important for building a stronger undergraduate community.” PAT has organized a series of lectures, inviting the History faculty to speak about their research and life as historians. Also, PAT is working with the Public History Initiative and History Graduate Students Association to plan a joint event that will present unique career options for history degree holders. Serena hopes that events like these will encourage students to take advantage of personal and academic opportunities inside the major. She also welcomes students to submit their work to Quaestio. The most recent publication is available online. Upon graduation, Serena is looking to join Teach for China or attend graduate school in China. She has already spent time in China and Taiwan through her internship and volunteer work. Now, her main motivation for going abroad is to improve her Chinese language skills.
Serena Wu “Increasing outreach and visibility is very important for building a stronger undergraduate community.”
STUDENT PROFILE Graduate Ziad Abu-Rish is a current History
Ziad Abu-Rish “I’ve had the opportunity to build relationships with a terrific mixture of people both in the Middle East field and beyond.”
Department Ph.D. candidate in the Modern Middle East field. He entered the graduate program in Fall 2007, and intends to file his dissertation at the end of this academic year under the title of “Making the Economy, Producing the State: Conflict and Institution Building in Lebanon, 19461955.” He is also currently working on submitting one of his dissertation chapters for publication to a peer-reviewed academic journal. The scholarship, mentorship, and camaraderie offered by both faculty and colleagues were central to Ziad’s overall experience in the Department. As he explains, “I’ve had the opportunity to build relationships with a terrific mixture of people both in the Middle East field and beyond.” Ziad came into the Department to work with Professor James Gelvin. He also took multiple courses with Professors Gabriel Piterberg and Lynn Hunt, who together with Dr. Gelvin form the core of his committee. In the program, Ziad also had the opportunity to teach his own undergraduate seminars. While having significant discretion over the design of the courses, he notes the importance of feedback and support from Professor Kelly LytleHernandez who coordinated the 96W courses. Ziad believes this unique teaching experience was especially valuable when applying for jobs. Research has required Ziad to work with various archives across the
United States, as well as in England, France, and—most extensively—in Lebanon. His fieldwork in the Middle East coincided with the Arab uprisings, which exposed him to the various reactions, hopes, and fears that swept the region at the time. He recalls, “I was privileged to be able to tap into the various conversations and activities in Lebanon that the regional uprisings spawned.” Ziad recently accepted a tenuretrack position at Ohio University’s Department of History, beginning Fall 2014. Fortunately, he was able to negotiate the ability to postpone his start date should he receive a post-doctoral fellowship. Upon filing his dissertation, Ziad plans to transform his dissertation into a book and subsequently shift research projects to examine state formation in Jordan. Outside of the Department, Ziad is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, a leading online publication for scholarly and activist analysis on the Middle East. He is also the author of a chapter on Jordan in a forthcoming edited volume on the Arab uprisings from Oxford University Press. Born in Lebanon, but raised in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, Ziad resided in various US cities before moving to Los Angeles. During his free time, Ziad takes full advantage of living in the area by going to the beach at least once a week. He also bikes regularly and enjoys dancing to electronic, Middle Eastern, and South Asian music.
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CLUSTERS 2013-2014 Alongside our existing 12 sub-fields, the History Department supports a number of cross-field clusters. Clusters are intended to attract students and faculty to important current themes in the historical discipline. These clusters will offer new courses, sponsor outside speakers, and convene Department-based workshops and seminars. The three clusters for the 2013-2014 academic year are:
Atlantic History The primary goal of this cluster is to generate innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas in the development of Western capitalism and modernity. Relevant themes include the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and PanAfrican ideologies; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
Modern World Economic History
History of Women, Men, and Sexuality
This cluster takes the form of a pioneering, two-quarter course devoted to the History of Modern World Capitalism. The teamtaught course will discuss and analyze the birth, rise, challenge and transformation of modern world capitalism across the globe. In the first quarter, this cluster course covered the period from the late 18th century to World War II; the second quarter will discuss the period from 1945 to the present: welfare capitalism, globalization and rise of Asia and Latin America.
This cluster brings together faculty from the US, Asia, Africa & Latin American fields who have a common interest in gendered difference in the past. Ranging in focus from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, affiliated faculty will offer a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2014-2015, the HWMS cluster will sponsor a year-long series of programs and courses entitled “Historicizing Masculinities.�
upcoming cluster events
Atlantic History Speaker Series: Molly Warsh, January 16 Alison Games, January 30 Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, February 13 Sharla Fett, February 27 HWMS Cluster Events: Estelle Freedman Book Talk, January 31 Guest Speaker Lecture, February 12
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HistoryCorps Starting in 2012-13, the Public
History Initiative expanded the National Center for History in the Schools’ internship program to create “HistoryCorps.” Through HistoryCorps, undergraduate History majors have a unique opportunity to connect with K-12 schools and community organizations such as museums and nonprofits. The Public History Initiative works closely with each site to cultivate positions that will allow students to implement their historical research skills while contributing to the mission of the institution.
Visit the Public History Initiative website!
HIGHLIGHT
In the first year, 16 undergraduate students served at sites including the Wende Museum, the Autry National Center, the Natural History Museum, El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum, the School of History and Dramatic Arts, the LA Alliance for a New Economy, and the Los Angeles Black Worker Center. This year, PHI is looking forward to collaborating with new sites including the new Museum of Social Justice, the Chinese Historical Association, as well as working with history classes at UCLA Tie-In schools Emerson Middle School and University High School.
Stefani Drown worked closely with the Director of Education at The Autry Museum in Griffith Park, conducting research and revising the museum’s docent training manual. She was active in compiling research on the American Western Frontier, the experience of Native and African Americans in the West, and Women of the West for ongoing and upcoming exhibitions.
HISTORY ONLINE COURSES
In the 2013 summer session, the History Department launched two new online courses to add to our existing group of online offerings. These courses – all of which are lower division, general education courses – were developed in conjunction with UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television’s online course team, which has created some of the most dynamic, academically challenging, and aesthetically beautiful online courses to be found. Each course is taught by some of the most esteemed History faculty and features real-time dialogue with instructors and teaching assistants as well as vibrant images and animations. The online courses have also presented exciting new opportunities to our graduate students, who can serve as teaching assistants from wherever they happen to be; some have conducted their sessions from places such as Paris and Madrid. Because the courses are offered during the summer, anyone with access to the internet can enroll; last summer a group of students enrolled from Afghanistan. In the words of Professor Teofilo Ruiz, who was the instructor for History 1B online, “The class provides a range of images and close connection between visuals and lectures that is impossible to replicate in the classroom.” For a look at the video demo of History courses created by the TFT Online team, visit http://www.online.ucla.edu/courses/#history.
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Why History Matters How Climate Science Became a Debate in America
Left to Right: David N. Myers, Daniella Perry, Marissa Petrou, Caroline Ford, Erik Conway, Jonathan Parfrey, David Neelin, Jon Christensen
“...bringing together scientists, historians, and policymakers to promote collaboration in a public forum” “Why History Matters” is the Department’s flagship public events series. Each quarter, WHM features a conversation involving historians, thought leaders, and public officials on issues of great contemporary concern. The series is part of the Department’s overall mission of introducing historical depth and perspective into public discourse as a way of creating an informed and engaged citizenry. The most recent WHM, which focused on the history of science and the debate over climate change, was held on October 30, 2013 at the California NanoSystems Institute. This WHM event was initiated by two History Department graduate students, Daniella Perry and Marissa Petrou. They considered various topics including artificial Intelligence, Big Pharma, biotechnology, nanotechnology, GMO’s, space travel, and contraception and the war on women. Daniella and Marissa explain their inspiration and objective behind the symposium topic they chose: “We feel strongly that academics have a responsi-
biity to communicate our work to the larger general public in an accessible manner. We thought the “Why History Matters” series would be a great way to both introduce our field to the public and demonstrate its relevance to current events. As historians of science, we are also sensitive to the federal defunding of science, the social sciences, and the humanities. We were inspired by debates over public reception of climate as a particularly local and current topic, which highlights the importance of science communication. Historians of science are attuned to long-term political decisions, social practices, and cultural traditions associated with local and global relationships between science, society, and policy. We felt the history of climate science was a great topic to bring the north and south campus disciplines together.” Invited Panelists Erik Conway, Caroline Ford, David Neelin, and Jonathan Parfrey reflect another important goal of this symposium: bringing together scientists, historians, and policymakers to promote collaboration in a public forum. The next “Why History Matters” event is scheduled to take place on March 4, 2014. The topic of discussion will be women’s rights as human rights. For this event, the History Department will be collaborating with the UCLA School of Law.
panelists
Erik Conway, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caroline Ford, UCLA Department of History David Neelin, UCLA Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics and the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Jonathan Parfrey, Climate Resolve
moderator
Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute of the Environ-
ment and Sustainability and the UCLA Department of History
Click to watch a live recording of Why History of Science Matters.
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ALDEN-BERG LECTURE 2013-2014 Wilson by A. Scott Berg The Alden-Berg Lecture honors two distinguished
alumnae and friends of the Department, Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg. Devoted students of history and mainstays of the Friends of History group, Geraldine and Barbara have contributed in manifold ways to the well-being of the Department. The lecture invites esteemed scholars, facculty, and writers to address important issues of the past and present. This year’s Alden-Berg Lecture was held on the evening of December 11, 2013 at the Faculty Center. Now in its third year, the lecture featured Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner A. Scott Berg’s newest book, Wilson (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013). Each of Scott Berg’s subjects has been an iconic American figure: legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn, aviator Charles Lindbergh and actress Katharine Hepburn; and each portrait has been characterized by three essential qualities: the sweeping away of myth and legend to unveil a living, breathing human being behind the image; meticulous scholarship, aided by a remarkable ability to gain access to previously unavailable sources; and an elegant, fluent prose that propels the reader onward. Every one of these attributes is amply present in Berg’s new book, his first in more than ten years, a biography of the enormously important and influential but enigmatic and often mischaracterized twenty-eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. Filled with new insight and detail, Wilson is not only the biography of a great and often misunderstood President whose ideas and ideals promise to endure for centuries to come, but a riveting narrative that spans seven crucial decades of American history, and above all a deeply emotional exploration of the entirety of Woodrow Wilson’s life – his dreams, his accomplishments, his affairs of the heart, and his alltoo-human failings. A. Scott Berg gives us not just Wilson the icon, but Wilson the man.
Left to Right: Rick Berg, Barbara Berg,Tony Berg, A. Scott Berg, Jeri Alden, David N. Myers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A. Scott Berg graduated from Princeton Uni-
versity in 1971 and is the author of four previous bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) received the National Book Award; with a Guggenheim Fellowship, he published Goldwyn: A Biography in 1989; Lindbergh (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) was published in 1998; and his biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered, was the #1 bestseller for most of the summer of 2003.
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Upcoming Events january 14 | lecture
European History Colloquium “Familiar Strangers: Muslims in Europe (16th-18th centuries)” Lucette Valensi (EHESS) Open to the public
january 16 | lecture
“The Political Ecology of the Early Spanish Caribbean” Molly Warsh (Pittsburgh)
Sponsored by the Atlantic History Cluster and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair
january 16 | lecture
“Changes in the Humanities Ph.D.: Examples from the Language and Literature Fields” Russell Berman (Stanford) Open to the public
january 23 | lecture
European History Colloquium “Microhistory and World History: Some Reflections” Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA) Open to the public
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january 27 | symposium
A Case for Cases: The Varieties of Casuistry Andrew Berns (South Carolina) Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA) A. Katie Harris (UC Davis) Brinkley Messick (Columbia) Suzanne Stone (Yeshiva)
Organized by Carlo Ginzburg and Gabriel Piterberg
january 30 | lecture
“English and Dutch in Suriname: Entangled Atlantics in the Seventeenth Century” Alison Games (Georgetown)
Sponsored by the Atlantic History Cluster and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair
january 31 | book
talk
“Redefining Rape”
Estelle Freedman (Stanford)
Sponsored by the History of Women, Men, and Sexuality Cluster Open to the public
For more information please contact Lisa Kim at lisa@history.ucla.edu
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The Impact of Philanthropy A Meeting of Two Extraordinary Minds: Ron and Anne Mellor Two prominent faculty members in the College of Letters and Science ce-
mented their combined 65-year legacy of distinction at UCLA by making a joint testamentary pledge of $1 million, to be divided between the History and English Departments. Anne Mellor, distinguished research professor of English, and her husband, Ronald Mellor, distinguished professor emeritus and former chair of the History Department, recently established endowments for graduate student fellowships in their home departments as well as the Ronald and Anne Mellor Endowed Educational Fund, which will provide resources for visiting lecturers, summer travel-study opportunities, and new acquisitions for UCLA’s special library collections. Anne Mellor is credited with creating and shaping the scholarly field of 18th- and 19th-century British women’s literature; she is also an eminent scholar of feminist theory and the visual arts. Ron Mellor is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on ancient religion and Roman historiography.
The Enduring Legacy of Sady and Ludwig Kahn The legacy of Sady and Ludwig Kahn has been woven indelibly into the
fabric of UCLA through major gifts distributed by the Sady Kahn Trust since her death in 2009. The most recent is a $2 million-dollar endowment to establish the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History in the History Department. The Sady Kahn Chair will provide funds for the chair holder’s research, graduate student support, and annual public seminars and symposia. Sady and Ludwig were among thousands of German-Jewish refugees who fled Germany in the late 1930s when the Nazis rose to power, with little more than the clothes on their backs. The Kahns forged a new life for themselves in Los Angeles, ultimately establishing a successful hat-making business. Long-time family friend Jim Keir helped Sady identify beneficiary charities for her Trust, one of which was UCLA. Keir began distributing the trust’s assets after Sady’s death in 2009, beginning with a transformative $2-million gift to establish the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Directorship of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies.
GIVING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
You can have a positive impact on history teaching and scholarship at UCLA by making a gift of any size to the Department. Gifts from alumni and friends like you allow the Department to realize our mission by inparting historical knowledge to our students, the UCLA campus, and society at large. Through your support, the Department can retain its exceptionally high standing, enrich the educational experience of our students, and reach new heights of distinction in the future. For more information of ways to make a gift to the Department, please contact Kim Morris, Associate Director of Development in the UCLA College of Letters and Science at 310-825-1151 or kbmorris@support.ucla.edu.
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UCLA History Department
BOARD OF ADVISORS Barbara Berg
Co-Founder, UCLA Friends of History
Tom Lifka
Associate Vice Chancellor (Retired) UCLA Student Academic Services
Leiv Blad
Partner Bingham McCutchen LLP
Scott Bottles
Executive Vice President Commercial Real Estate Wells Fargo Bank
Benjamin E. Nickoll Chief Investment Officer Ore Hill Partners
Chet Pipkin
Founder and Chairman Belkin International, Inc.
Alan Buckelew
Chief Operations Officer, Carnival Corporation & plc
Laura Dawson
Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs NBC Universal Entertainment
Clare DeBriere
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer The Ratkovich Company
Michelle Ebersman Former history teacher
Kristin Rolla
General Manager, TV Land Digital at MTV Networks
Dean Rydquist
Senior Vice President The Capital Group
Paul Turovsky
Principal True North Management Group, LLC
Michael Tyler
Don Eversoll
Senior Vice President & General Counsel Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.
Edwin B. Kanner
Kenneth L. Wilton
Partner, Timber Ridge Development
Chairman Emeritus, American Insulated Wire Corporation
Partner Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
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