David Fedman, assistant professor of history, has been awarded a $6,000 National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend to support the completion of his manuscript The Saw & the Seed: Forestry & the Politics of Conservation in Colonial Korea (under contract with the University of Washington Press). “I’m absolutely thrilled to have received this grant from the NEH […]
Tracing coffee’s evolution from little-used African bean to ubiquitous beverage
Heidi Tinsman, history professor and affiliated faculty in gender & sexuality studies at UCI, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities category and field of European and Latin American history. The award is one of 175 granted by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s board of trustees from among nearly 3,000 applicants. […]
Book co-written by UCI history professor reinterprets Colonial New England practice of ‘warning out’ strangers
Carolyn Boyd, UCI professor emeritus of history, died July 19 at 71. A distinguished historian of modern Spain, she taught at UCI from 1999 to 2010, serving as professor of history, chair of history and dean of graduate studies.
UCI Libraries’ fall exhibit traces its history from bean to beverage, Africa to America, cultivation to cultural staple
Kenneth Pomeranz, UCI expert on China, is new American Historical Association president.
Daniel Do-Khanh ’93 has come a long way since he and his parents fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in April 1975, leaving behind their home and all of their belongings. Today he’s a successful attorney working out of a spacious Irvine office with a sweeping view of the Orange County coast, but Do-Khanh […]
Gail Taylor is pursuing a doctorate in history after a 30-year career in healthcare.
J.H. Everett, who holds multiple degrees from UCI, turned a hobby into a career – helping needy local kids in the process.