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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.”

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

Axis-Based Research

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News at CMRS-CEGS

CMRS-CEGS announces sponsorship of 5 panels at upcoming annual meeting of RSA Boston 2025

We are proud to share that UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS-CEGS) is sponsoring five panels at the upcoming annual meeting of the Renaissance Society...

Comitatus 56: Call for Book Reviews

The books in the list below are available for review in Comitatus 56 (2025), the graduate-student journal published by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies....

Master Craftswomen Lucila Romero Mendoza and Dorila Romero Hernández, chosen to represent Cajamarca (Peru) at the Fowler Museum’s celebration of Andean culture

As part of the “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses” project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, and in collaboration with the Fowler Museum, we invite...

CMRS-CEGS Director Zrinka Stahuljak’s book, Fixers, distinguished as a book of the year in the History Today magazine.

We are pleased to announce that CMRS-CEGS Director Zrinka Stahuljak's book Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press) has been recognized...

Call For Papers: On Land and Across the Sea: Boccaccio’s Other Wor(l)ds. Junctions and Interweavings

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, in partnership with the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, the Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies, the...

Comparative Lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system

We are delighted to share the path-breaking teaching of early world literature using AI in CMRS-CEGS Director Zrinka Stahuljak's Comparative Literature 2BW classroom this upcoming Winter quarter....

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