Alison Perchuk (CSU Channel Islands), one of our California Medieval Seminar Steering Committee members, will give the first plenary lecture at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS), sponsored…
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CMRS-CEGS Faculty, Jamie Kreiner (History), receives 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
Published: April 16, 2026
We are delighted to congratulate CMRS-CEGS Faculty, Jamie Kreiner, Professor of History and Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, on receiving the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. This year’s fellows…
Read MoreIntroducing Giulia Giamboni, John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellow at the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
Published: April 6, 2026
The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to introduce Dr. Giulia Giamboni, our next John W. Baldwin Postdoctoral Fellow. The Baldwin fellowship is awarded to a recent…
Read MoreApply for CMRS-CEGS Fellowships by April 17, 2026
Published: March 25, 2026Dear Graduate Students, Applications are now open for CMRS-CEGS Fellowships for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 17, 2026. Please review the application procedure carefully…
Read MoreCMS Community Celebrates Multiple Recognitions from the Medieval Academy of America
Published: February 12, 2026We’re pleased to share that members of our stellar California Medieval Seminar Steering Committee have recently received a series of well-deserved recognitions. Rowan Dorin received the Medieval Academy of America’s…
Read MoreCall for Papers –Translations: People, Texts & Objects in Motion Across the Early Global World
Published: January 9, 2026
The UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Student Association, sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, is pleased to announce the call for papers for our 6th Annual…
Read MoreIn Memoriam of Efraín Kristal
Published: December 17, 2025
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, on November 14. Professor Kristal was a devoted, long-standing member…
Read MoreELTS PhD Candidate received the 2025 Grandgent Award
Published: December 2, 2025We are pleased to share that one of our recently published Comitatus articles, “Unfolding Dante’s Map” by Hugo Fortin (ELTS), was awarded the 2025 Charles Hall Grandgent Award by the Dante Society of…
Read MoreCMRS-CEGS co-sponsors “Living Threads” at the Fowler Museum, led by Solsiré Cusicanqui, with master craftswomen from San Miguel, Cajamarca
Published: November 7, 2025
This past Saturday, October 25, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS-CEGS) co-sponsored “Living Threads: Ancestral Textile Knowledge from the Peruvian Andes,” a public program at the Fowler Museum…
Read MoreAssistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh hosts three leading scholars through CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program
Published: October 22, 2025
This past Spring, Assistant Professor Choon Hwee Koh (History) offered HIST 208A: History of Money through the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar program. With support from CMRS-CEGS, Koh invited three leading scholars…
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