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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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Podcasts
Recordings of past lectures and conferences are posted on our podcasts page. Stay tuned for new media as we comb through our archives.
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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.
Awards & Fellowships
News at CMRS-CEGS
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Postdoctoral Fellow Positions, “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses”, [Mellon Foundation]
POSITION DESCRIPTION The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies Center in partnership with the Mellon Foundation are pleased to announce...
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Job Posting: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, 1000-1700
POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Salary range: 74,600-197,100 Review timeline: Review of applications will begin on November 16, 2023. APPLICATION WINDOW Open date: September 8, 2023...
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Mellon Foundation Grant Supports “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses” Project
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...
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CMRS-CEGS Sponsored RSA Panels
CMRS-CEGS is an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America and is submitting sponsored panels for the next RSA conference in March 2024. We invite you...
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Gift from Arcadia Will Advance Early Global Studies at UCLA
A transformative gift from Arcadia establishes the new John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship, named to honor the legacy of the esteemed historian JOHN W. BALDWIN. This gift...
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Faculty Awards and Achievements
Congratulations to our our faculty at the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies for these recent accomplishments! Marianna Birnbaum, Professor Emerita in the UCLA Department of European...
Mission
UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies promotes and sustains transdisciplinary studies of the periods from the 3rd to the 17th century C.E. across the globe. The Center’s mission is grounded in the disciplinary study of early periods and worlds (late antique, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern). Five main research axes structure the multi-faceted inquiry of the Center’s diverse faculty: Sustainability-Repurposing; Fluidity-Permanence; Bodies-Performance; Conversion-Mobility; and Communication-Archive.
This research platform is open to the widest variety of historical and methodological approaches. It enables a transdisciplinary and global research model in response to the challenge of regional world systems and the plurality of early worlds. That is, in addition to the narratives of spatial and/or temporal connectivities, the research platform of connected methodologies and epistemologies and comparison facilitates the study of a range of shared and global phenomena in an unconnected and early-connected world.
The Center has three primary goals:
1. To stimulate and support the scholarship and research activities of its affiliated faculty, associates, students, and scholars;
2. To foster and prepare the next generation of scholars and researchers by providing educational opportunities, and financial, logistical, and other support; and,
3. To create and disseminate knowledge, encourage intellectual exchange, and promote study of the early global periods and worlds at the campus, local, regional, national, and global levels.
CMRS-CEGS is dedicated to promoting research, teaching, and new methodologies in underrepresented and nontraditional areas of study and in traditional fields and frameworks. It is guided by the conviction that without the study of the past, the present and the future are inaccessible and opaque.