Professor Marissa López examines Robert Becker’s “Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants if 1822-1846 from the Records of the United States District Court, San Francisco” in the…
Max Gordy | September 14, 2021 When a lot of people look at maps they see objective facts: the black lines depicting borders, a blue line tracing the path of a…
Mary Daily | Photos by Claudia Lucia | September 14, 2021 During a trip to Mexico when she was 15, Charlene Villaseñor Black wandered into the Church of Santa Prisca y…
With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and help Scholars at Risk….
By Jonathan Riggs | UCLA College Aspiring novelist Woody Brown is going to have quite the author’s bio on a future dust jacket. “I grew up a mighty weird autistic…
Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies, Marissa López’s digital humanities project, Picturing Mexican America, teamed up with 826LA to create a virtual summer writers workshop for middle- and high-school students. 826LA is…
Photo by Filomena Cruz Madeline Adamo | July 28, 2021 | UCLA Newsroom As you walk along Pacific Avenue in Venice there’s a tattoo parlor — its side wall covered in…
The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated to promoting Spanish around the world, has chosen Barbara Fuchs, UCLA professor of Spanish and English, to receive its inaugural Ñ Prize,…
Left to right: Ambassador of Greece to the United States Alexandra Papadopoulou and UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Director Sharon E. J. Gerstel. (Photo: Courtesy of UCLA SNF Hellenic Center) News…
Photo Credit: Ben Alkaly/UCLA Photo Caption: Devin Fitzgerald, shown here in 2018 working with students, helped create remote-learning alternatives during the pandemic for students to research, think and write about…
Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer. She has worked civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United…
UCLA senior Joseph Matveyenko. (Photo provided by student.) By Peggy McInerny, Director of Communications | UCLA International Institute, June 9, 2021 Joseph Matveyenko (UCLA 2021) will graduate from UCLA later…
Photo by David Mark via Pixabay. By Leanna Kramer, UCLA Russian Flagship Program UCLA International Institute/ UCLA Russian Flagship Program, May 13, 2021 — This year, three of UCLA’s Russian…
On Thursday, May 27, at 1:30pm PST, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Professor, Domenico Ingenito, will be appearing on the KCRW radio show, Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt,…
Barbara and George Olympios in 1934. Photo: Courtesy of the Olympios family The National Herald | May 22, 2021 LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the…
Waseda International House of Literature in Tokyo, designed by Kengo Kuma. (Photo courtesy of Yutaka Iijima) In 2013, the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures faced a troubling possibility:…
Oriah Amit, graduate student in the Department of English, is serving as a historical consultant on the science fiction drama TV HBO series The Nevers. Set in Victorian London, the…
Photo by Rick Loomis UCLA Strategic Communications | May 6, 2021 On the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) 86th anniversary, an effort by journalist and UCLA lecturer David Kipen to revive a…
An image of the French district in downtown Los Angeles. The image shows Aliso Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with signs labeling buildings “Griffins Transfer and Storage Co.” and…
The Division of Humanities is proud to announce that Near Eastern Languages and Culture Professor, Michael Cooperson, has just won the 2020/21 Sheikh Zayed Award Translation Prize for his Arabic…