The work of generating alternative futures through the reinterrogation of the past, I believe, is the core mission of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and central to our…
Read MoreDirector’s Letter, Fall 2023
Published: November 10, 2023 
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Associate Director’s Letter, Fall 2023
Published: November 10, 2023
In the southern Chinese port city of Guangzhou (or Canton), on the cemetery grounds of the 1300-year-old Huaisheng Mosque, is a bilingual Chinese and Arabic epitaph of one Ramadan ibn…
Read MorePostdoctoral Fellow Positions, “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses”, [Mellon Foundation]
Published: September 19, 2023
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 two postdoctoral fellow…
Read MoreMellon Foundation Grant Supports “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses” Project
Published: August 14, 2023
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…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS Sponsored RSA Panels
Published: June 21, 2023
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 to send us…
Read MoreGift from Arcadia Will Advance Early Global Studies at UCLA
Published: June 15, 2023
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 will support scholars…
Read MoreOpen Position for Wellman Chair in Medieval History
Published: May 16, 2023
The UCLA History Department seeks a historian of any region of Europe (including the Byzantine world) whose period of focus lies between 500 and 1400 CE. The successful candidate will…
Read MoreProfessor Michael J. B. Allen, 1941-2023
Published: February 27, 2023
We were saddened to hear the news that Michael J.B. Allen passed away on Saturday, February 25. Professor Allen was Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies…
Read MoreApply Now for Editorial Positions: Comitatus Volume 54 (2023)
Published: November 28, 2022
Apply Now for Editorial Positions: Comitatus Volume 54 (2023) Comitatus is the graduate research journal sponsored by CMRS-CEGS, featuring the work of graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of…
Read MoreProfessor Verdel “Del” Kolve (1934-2022)
Published: November 21, 2022
We are saddened to learn of the passing of V. A. (“Del”) Kolve on November 5. Professor Kolve became a member of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (now…
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