Reflected in our recent name change, Director Zrinka Stahuljak’s perspective makes us one of the first major entities in the field to adopt a more inclusive approach and employ new…
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Call for Nominations: CMRS-CEGS Supplemental Recruitment Fellowships
Published: December 13, 2021The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies will award three Supplemental Recruitment Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year. The purpose of these awards is to provide departments with another…
Read MoreApply Now for Editorial Positions: Comitatus Volume 53 (2022)
Published: November 10, 2021Comitatus is the graduate research journal sponsored by the CMRS-CEGS, featuring the work of graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval or Renaissance studies. The annual journal…
Read MoreNew Supplemental Recruitment Fellowships
Published: October 21, 2021Our new CMRS-CEGS Supplemental Recruitment Fellowships to departments assist in the process of bringing new graduate students to UCLA. The awards, consisting of up to $5,000 a year for two…
Read MoreGraduate Students Enroll in Graduate Certificate in Global Medieval Studies
Published: October 19, 2021Graduate students Julie Ershadi (NELC, Iranian Studies) and Jodie Miller (ELTS, French) have enrolled in the Center’s certification program in global medieval studies. Julie Ershadi‘s research centers on the life…
Read MoreCMRS Is Now CMRS-CEGS
Published: October 13, 2021Dear faculty, staff, and friends, I am pleased to share exciting news regarding UCLA’s world-class hub for scholars working in periods from the 3rd to the 17th century CE across…
Read MoreDirector’s Annual Letter, Fall 2021
Published: September 20, 2021Over the past year and a half of the continuing biggest upheaval – racial, social, political, health – that we have known in our lifetimes, it was essential to continue…
Read MoreAfghan Assistance at UCLA
Published: September 1, 2021CMRS faculty member Domenico Ingenito (Associate Professor of Persian Literature at UCLA and Director of the Program on Central Asia) has been assisting Afghan refugees flown to Italy to clear…
Read MoreCMRS Co-Sponsors Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia Workshop
Published: July 15, 2021CMRS is pleased to co-sponsor the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia workshop “Historicizing Disaster Risk Management: The Ecology of Mt. Isarog and its Environs,” This series of eight panel…
Read MoreLAMAR Seminar for Fall 2021: Digital/Medieval: Resistant Archives
Published: June 9, 2021Professor Matthew Fisher (English) is teaching the next LAMAR Seminar in the Fall. The course, English 257, “Digital/Medieval: Resistant Archives” will focus on the theoretical and practical complexities of contemporary…
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