History

January 2, 2019

Allan Sharlin Memorial Fellowship — 3/18/2019

This award commemorates the scholarly achievements of the late Allan Sharlin, Professor of Sociology and an innovative scholar in the fields of demography and history at UC Berkeley. The award is made annually to students who show promise of advancing scholarship in the field of historical sociology, historical demography, or…
Iris Lin posing with relatives in Vietnam

November 14, 2018

Tracing My Family History

Master of Social Welfare Student Iris Lin travels around the world to connect with her family members.

March 12, 2018

March is National Women’s History Month

National Women’s History Month is celebrated in March each year to honor the myriad contributions of women in history, culture and society. This annual celebration has local roots in Sonoma, where a school event in the late 1970’s spurred groups across the country to raise awareness and share their…

September 25, 2017

Center for Engaged Scholarship (CES) Dissertation Fellowships — 12/15/2017

The Center for Engaged Scholarship (CES) is accepting applications from Ph.D. students in the social sciences who have already completed all departmental and institutional requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including approval of the dissertation proposal. The only requirement not completed must be the writing and, where required, the defense of the dissertation. The…

September 7, 2017

Soref Fellowship — Applications accepted now

The Washington Institute’s Soref fellowship is for those with an advanced degree who are considering whether to pursue a career in government or journalism. The fellowship is a one-year research position, designed primarily for those who have recently earned a PhD related to U.S. foreign policy or…

February 7, 2017

Sciences Po Teaching Fellowship Positions

Sciences Po welcomes applications from post-doctoral and doctoral students close to their thesis submission for teaching positions on one of its three Anglophone undergraduate campuses in France: Reims, Menton or Le Havre. Each campus focuses on a world region and offers a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree in History,…

May 28, 2014

Bancroft Library — U.S. History Scene Fellowship in Digital History — 6/10/14

The UCB Bancroft Library and U.S. History Scene have announced competitions for a new fellowship in Digital History. The aim of this program is to familiarize scholars with emerging digital technologies and digital archival collections, including the digital publication of original scholarly research. The fellowship will introduce history…

June 11, 2013

Graduate Students Educate Sacramento

On June 4th, a group of deans and graduate students from all UC campuses attended the Graduate Research Advocacy Day in Sacramento. They spoke with lawmakers about the value of graduate education to the State of California.
student waving Cal flag

May 15, 2011

Einhorn, Geissler, and Puckett are officially Distinguished

The Berkeley campus's most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in that endeavor. This year, the recipients were
 Robin Einhorn of professor of history, Phillip Geissler associate professor of chemistry (whose 2000 Ph.D. is from Berkeley), and
 Kent Puckett, associate professor of English.