Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to the University of California, Irvine's (UCI) Global Forum to give a talk, "Political Debate and Medical Uncertainty in the Age of Pandemics and Epidemics" The event was sponsored by UCI's Global Studies Department, Center for Medical Humanities, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was a panelist at "Broadcasting the Local" at California State University Channel Islands. He spoke to faculty, staff, students, and community members on his upcoming audio documentary commemorating the anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which was funded through the National Endowment for the…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was an invited speaker to California State University Channel Island's History Community Seminar. He presented on his book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problems of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 published in 2022 through University of Nebraska Press

Doctoral students Fabian Rebolledo and Mariah Mena (both History) were selected to receive Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowships for the 2023-24 academic year from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They will receive $30,000 stipends each, help conduct research in…

Carlos S. Dimas (History) was elected as president-elect of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) at the 2023 conference in Antigua, Guatemala. He will serve as president-elect 2023-2024 and then as president 2024-2025. SECOLAS is an association of individuals interested in Latin America established in 1953. Its objectives…

Kristen Phipps (History) has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for the 2023-2024 academic year. 

Michael J Alarid (History) was named as a winner of this years College of Liberal Arts’ Diversity Award. This award is given in recognition for outstanding scholarly work. 

Analiesa Delgado (History) received an honorable mention from the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Program.

Jeff Schauer (History) attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, California. He presented a paper titled, “Friends for Zambia: Rhodesia, the making of a Zambia lobby, and the limits of solidarity, 1964-1974.” This paper examined efforts by the Zambian state and its allies to influence the…

Over the weekend of March 11-12, Susan Lee Johnson (History) gave lectures about the book Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West for the Tesoro Cultural Center's Historic Lectures Series. The Tesoro Cultural Center is a non-profit affiliated with The Fort Restaurant near Denver, and lecturers speak both at The Fort and at…

Susan Lee Johnson's (History) Western History Association presidential address, first delivered at the organization's annual conference last October, will be published in the spring 2023 issue of the Western Historical Quarterly. Advance access online is now available. 

John Haberstroh (History) has published an interview titled, "Making Monsters Beautiful: An Interview with Karen Dee Carpenter," in the Council for European Studies' online journal, EuropeNow. The interview explores Carpenter's (CSU Northridge) virtual reality opera project called "Beautiful Monsters," which retells the stories of famous ancient…