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Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed receive Mellon grant

Published: July 24, 2023

Zrinka Stahuljak (left) and Shannon Speed Jonathan Riggs | July 24, 2023 Professors Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a project…

UCLA professor shares experience as Rome Prize recipient

Published: July 1, 2023

Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Sarah Beckmann, an assistant professor of Roman archaeology in the classics department and a faculty member at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, has…

Exploring the fraught nature of memory and comparison

Published: June 23, 2023

Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom Michael Rothberg, UCLA’s 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Professor of Holocaust Studies, was one of the first scholars to discuss and write about the links between remembrances…

5 UCLA professors receive 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships

Published: April 11, 2023

Clockwise from top left: Prineha Narang, Michael Berry, Alex Purves, Michael Rothberg and Scott Cummings. Sean Brenner | April 7, 2023 Five UCLA professors are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for…

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in classics shares experience

Published: February 17, 2023

Courtesy of Julio Vega-Payne BY ANUSHKA CHAKRABARTI Julio Vega-Payne joined the classics department as a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow this academic year.  According to the fellowship website, “The Chancellor’s Postdoctoral…

UCLA English student to publish debut novel 

Published: November 21, 2022

Image courtesy of Arushi Avachat By Anushka Chakrabarti Arushi Avachat, a third-year English and political science undergraduate student at UCLA, will see her debut novel, “Arya Khanna’s Bollywood Moment,” hit…