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UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2026, Part 2: Streaming
NEW! UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report 2026, Part 2: Streaming is now available. Download the full report HERE For any media inquiries, please contact Eddie North-Hager at enhager@stratcomm.ucla.edu or Barbra Ramos at bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu. For donor/sponsor inquiries, please contact Peter Evans at pevans@support.ucla.eduor Lisa Mohan at lmohan@support.ucla.edu To download any of the previous reports in the Hollywood Diversity Report series, click HERE. To learn more about…
Meet UCLA’s 2026 Thomas E. Lifka Staff Excellence Award Winners
Staff from UCLA’s Division of Social Sciences were honored at the second annual Thomas E. Lifka Staff Appreciation Luncheon and Awards Ceremony hosted by Dean Abel Valenzuela Jr. on June 18 at the Luskin Conference Center.
2 UCLA history doctoral students awarded 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships
Two doctoral students, Chiara Di Leone and Benjamin Schneider, from UCLA’s Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History have been awarded the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
UCLA Social Sciences: 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients
Brenda E. Stevenson (History and African American Studies), Steven Peterson (Communication), and Chris Surro (Economics) were named recipients of UCLA’s 2026 Distinguished Teaching Awards on May 28.
UCLA doctoral candidate Paul Melas named 2026 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow
The fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of religion, ethics, morals, or values UCLA Social Sciences The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has named Paul Melas, a doctoral candidate in UCLA’s Department of Anthropology, a 2026 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow….
Q&A: Carnegie Fellow Stuart Soroka on how media technologies and market pressures drive polarizing news content
He is among 24 fellows selected to explore the causes of political polarization and to identify possible solutions Citlalli Chávez-Nava Stuart Soroka, a UCLA professor of communication and political science (by courtesy), has been named a 2026 Carnegie Fellow. He is among 24 fellows selected to receive a $200,000 research stipend from the Carnegie Corporation for their work exploring the…