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July 14, 2025

Lori Flores published an article in The Guardian, “How US Immigration Raids Hurt Summer Pleasures, From Berries to Barbecues” discussing how recent ICE raids will negatively impact America’s food labor system, exploring the profound harm caused both to immigrant workers and the food supply system they contribute to. Read the full article here.




June 11, 2025

Professor Mae Ngai features in the recently-released documentary “White with Fear,” an “explosive deep dive into the decades-long quest by America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of White victimization.” The documentary is available on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and other streaming services.





Professor Mae Ngai discussed threats by the Trump administration to terminate visas of Chinese international students at a webinar sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies on June 5. 




May 21, 2025

Tunç Şen‘s book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, has been published with Stanford University Press. See more about the book here.





Julia Burke, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, has been named one of this year’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows. Read more about the award here.



May 20, 2025

Karl Jacoby was interviewed for Kevin Costner’s The West, where he provides historical background on Joaquin Murrieta, Cynthia Anne Parker, and other subjects. The series will premier on May 26th, 2025.



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