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Axis-Based Research
UCLA’s world-class research hub promotes and sustains transdisciplinary studies of the periods from the 3rd to the 17th century CE across the globe. More than a half-century after its founding, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) is now known as CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS–CEGS).
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Publications at CMRS-CEGS
The volumes published under the CMRS-CEGS aegis include the highly-regarded journal Viator, the graduate student journal Comitatus, the Cursor Mundi book series, and the proceedings from many of our conferences.
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Student Support
CMRS-CEGS supports graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in their academic and research activities through fellowships, travel grants, research assistantships, research funds, publication projects, and classes.
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Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses
Congratulations to our director, Zrinka Stahuljak, as she and Professor Shannon Speed (Director of UCLA American Indian Studies Center) have received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support their project called “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses.”
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News at CMRS-CEGS
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Call for Papers –Translations: People, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World
The UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, is pleased to announce the call for papers for...
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In Memoriam of Efraín Kristal
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, on November 14. Professor Kristal was a...
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ELTS PhD Candidate received the 2025 Grandgent Award
We are pleased to share that one of our recently published Comitatus articles, “Unfolding Dante’s Map” by Hugo Fortin (ELTS), was awarded the 2025 Charles Hall Grandgent Award by the...
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CMRS-CEGS co-sponsors “Living Threads” at the Fowler Museum, led by Solsiré Cusicanqui, with master craftswomen from San Miguel, Cajamarca
This past Saturday, October 25, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS-CEGS) co-sponsored “Living Threads: Ancestral Textile Knowledge from the Peruvian Andes,” a public program at...
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Assistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh hosts three leading scholars through CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program
This past Spring, Assistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh (History) offered HIST 208A: History of Money through the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program. With support from CMRS-CEGS, Koh invited...
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2025-2026 Annual Newsletter
Welcome to the new academic year and the start of the Fall Quarter! Please take a look at our annual newsletter, which we’ve shared below, celebrating the past...
