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In Memoriam: Maryam Farzanegan
Farzanegan, who earned a Ph.D. in special education with a public health focus, taught at USC and UCLA for many years after a career with UNICEF.
Sarath Pillai is the winner of the 2022 Sardar Patel Award
Pillai won the award for a dissertation entitled "Federal Futures: Imagining Federation, Constitution and World in Late Colonial India," completed at the University of Chicago.
Ketaki Jaywant is the winner of the 2021 Sardar Patel Award
Ketaki won the award for a dissertation entitled "Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India," completed at the University of Minnesota.
Workshop in Oaxaca immerses L.A. teachers in Indigenous Mexican culture
Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.
UCLA Promise Armenian Institute 2023-2024 grant and fellowship recipients
The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute is pleased to announce the following individuals selected for research support during 2023-2024. PAI grants and fellowships are designed to support research across all academic fields, with an emphasis on or connection to Armenia or Armenians.
Gene Block to step down as UCLA's chancellor next summer
After 17 years at the helm of the nation's top-ranked public university, the campus's ninth chief executive will conclude his tenure in July 2024.
Bilingual and bicultural migrant students bring assets, not deficits, to their educations
A webinar series on education of children who grow up on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border has created a unique resource for teachers, social workers and policy makers looking to learn more about this unique youth cohort.
UCLA alumnus Noah Mamet appointed to U.S. presidential arts committee
Mamet, a former U.S. ambassador to Argentine, earned a B.A. in political science at UCLA and is a long-term entrepreneur and business consultant.
In memoriam: Richard Hovannisian, 90, celebrated professor of Armenian history
An illustrious researcher and educator, Hovannisian made monumental contributions to the study of the history of modern Armenia and the Armenian Genocide.
The Croatian Diaspora of Los Angeles and Its Archival Documentation
Tamara Štefanac, Senior Archivist at the National and University Library in Zagreb, shares her research work on the Croatian diaspora of Los Angeles and answers questions about her experience as a Fulbright visiting scholar at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
New faces join International Institute leadership
Two centers name interim directors for the 2023-24 academic year, and the institute appoints a new faculty director for the International Education Office.
International Institute commencement 2023
A visual storybook of the 2023 commencement ceremony at Royce Hall on June 17, at which Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian delivered the keynote address to International Institute undergraduate and graduate students. Watch the
commencement video
. (Photos by Oliver Chien/ UCLA.)
Global Development Lab showcases student-designed projects, awards funding
The GDL's Project Incubator culminated in an evening of presentations on May 31, 2023, when three student teams presented community engagement projects for potential seed funding.
International Institute seniors distinguish themselves through activism, research and academic performance
Four stellar International Institute seniors won awards from the International Development Studies Program, and a global studies senior built an impressive foundation in consulting and research skills that led to a full-time job.
Global studies framework connects senior's life, family heritage and international interests
“I stumbled upon global studies, which, as an interdisciplinary major, felt very much geared toward what I wanted to study. I felt the skills that I would learn were very malleable and transferable,” says graduating senior Jordy Magallanes.
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Faculty in the News
Indigenous Mexican migration and migrant communities
July 31, 2023. In an interview with La Jornada, Director of the Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado speaks about the Mixtec understanding of mobility and work — and how there is no word for migrant in their language. A day earlier, he spoke with
La Opinión
on the occasion of Oaxacan Heritage Month in Southern California and noted how Oaxacan migrant communities sustain deep connections to their culture and hometowns .
Aomar Boum's graphic novel wins IPPY award
Anthropologist Aomar Boum, Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies at UCLA, has received the top award (“Gold Medal”) for 2023 graphic novel/drawn work from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for his work of historical fiction, “Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa” (Stanford, 2023), together with illustrator Nadjib Berber. The IPPY awards have recognized the best independently published books since 1997.
Ralphe Bunche and 'The Problem of Palestine'
May 10, 2023. In an essay for
Zocalo Public Square
, UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala writes, "Bunche's involvement in what he called 'the problem of Palestine' grew out of a lifelong commitment to anticolonialism and racial justice. He strongly believed in the right of all peoples to self-determination."