UCLA Social Sciences Wendy Fujinami, department manager in UCLA’s Department of Asian American Studies (AASD) has received the 2026 Chancellor’s Excellence in Service Award. Presented by UCLA’s Staff Assembly, the annual awards are designed to shine a spotlight on the exceptional talent that makes UCLA a place of innovation, inspiration and impact. Fujinami, who will…
UCLA Social Sciences UCLA has appointed Justin Dunnavant the Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology recognizing his innovative scholarship and leadership in cultural anthropology and archaeology. Dunnavant is an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Anthropology, a core faculty member of UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and a maritime archaeologist. His research explores…
Her deeply researched historical writing has challenged dominant narratives of U.S. history Citlalli Chávez-Nava UCLA historian Kelly Lytle Hernández, the holder of the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History, has been elected vice president of the Society of American Historians, further cementing her deeply researched historical writing challenging dominant narratives of U.S. history. A…
The artifacts are part of the larger Sally von Dem Hagen Collection discovered during hunting expedition in the 1970s UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Eight remaining artifacts from the Sally A. von dem Hagen Collection of limestone burial objects from the Kulaman Plateau in Cotabato were formally repatriated to the Philippines at a ceremony hosted…