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.” Serving as the grant’s Principal Investigator, Zrinka aims the project to align with the Mellon Foundation’s mission – to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking. The project’s goals include elevating Native American, Pacific Islander and other Indigenous scholarship on historical articulations of “race” and “Indigeneity” across the globe, and supporting efforts to recruit and retain Indigenous faculty at UCLA. For more details about this ambitious project, please read the bulletin posted on the UCLA Newsroom website.

2026-27 Call for Applications – UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Applicants are requested to apply through the UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows Program. The application portal will be open on September 1, 2025, and the deadline for application is November 1, 2025. More information can be found at https://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how‐to‐apply/.
Apply online at https://ppfpapply.ucop.edu/. The UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows Program stipulates the support of a UC faculty mentor. For all inquiries prior to applying, please contact both Prof. Shannon Speed, sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu, and Prof. Zrinka Stahuljak, zs@humnet.ucla.edu.
Upcoming Events:
April 25, 2026 
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #7
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)
February 7, 2026 
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #6
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)
October 26, 2025
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #5
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)
Past Events:
April 5, 2025 
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #4
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)

February 1, 2025
Royce Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #3
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)

November 3, 2024
Royce Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #2
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)

March 2, 2024
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Workshop #1
(CLOSED INVITE ONLY)

November 5, 2023
Mellon Grant Community Convening
Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses Project Meeting
Royce 306, 12-3pm, IN PERSON