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Image for Feyaad Allie is the Winner of the 2023 Sardar Patel Award

Feyaad Allie is the Winner of the 2023 Sardar Patel Award

Feyaad Allie won the award for a dissertation entitled "Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India," completed at the Stanford University.

Center for India and South Asia
Image for New works by International Institute scholars span a range of disciplines

New works by International Institute scholars span a range of disciplines

New books by Stephanie Balkwill, Marjorie Elaine, Shaina Potts and David Kim arrive this fall.

UCLA International Institute
Image for Utpal Sandesara brings new expertise, courses to global health program

Utpal Sandesara brings new expertise, courses to global health program

In his first year of teaching for the International Institute's global health minor, Sandesara created two new electives for the program.

UCLA International Institute
Image for UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations

UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations

Five recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges in locations such as Cambodia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Vietnam.

UCLA International Institute
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Creating the global university: How Gene Block built bridges from Westwood to the world

A tireless traveler, UCLA's outgoing chancellor has taken an in-person, hands-on approach to positioning the university as a major player on the international stage.

UCLA Global
Image for His Excellency Notonegoro of the Yogyakarta Sultanate host CSEAS for partnership discussions

His Excellency Notonegoro of the Yogyakarta Sultanate host CSEAS for partnership discussions

UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies met with His Excellency Notonegoro, Prince of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, to discuss potential collaborations.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Image for Lifelong anticolonial activist makes significant estate bequest to CNES

Lifelong anticolonial activist makes significant estate bequest to CNES

The Elaine and Mokhtar Mokhtefi Endowment at CNES will support fellowships and scholarships for students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who study the history and cultures of the region at UCLA.

Center for Near Eastern Studies
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International Institute fellowship fills crucial gap in dissertation research funding

The UCLA International Institute recently awarded 25 fellowships to defray the travel costs associated with dissertation fieldwork. Fellowship recipients — all UCLA doctoral candidates — will travel to 25 countries on four continents to conduct research this summer and, in a few cases, this fall.

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Image for Della Vida Conference explores Arabic language and identity in early Islamic period

Della Vida Conference explores Arabic language and identity in early Islamic period

The conference featured keynote addresses by the joint winners of the 2024 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Awards: historian Michael Cook and Islamic law professor and jurist Hossein Modarressi, both of Princeton University.

Center for Near Eastern Studies
Image for Asia Pacific Center hosts “Rethinking Cold War Culture and History in Taiwan” conference

Asia Pacific Center hosts “Rethinking Cold War Culture and History in Taiwan” conference

For more details, click on the title to visit the article page.

Asia Pacific Center
Image for  Global Development Lab hosts annual project showcase

Global Development Lab hosts annual project showcase

At the annual UCLA Global Development Lab showcase, members gave detailed presentations on internships and the international and/or community projects they developed over the past year.

UCLA International Institute
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International Institute Commencement 2024: Video & Photo Album

Listen to the speech of International Institute alumna Ann Wang (UCLA 2013, international development studies) and enjoy an album of photos of our graduating Class of 2024.

UCLA International Institute
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IDS seniors honored for their achievements

The research, internships and volunteer work of five seniors graduating from the international development studies program reveal the diverse ways in which Bruins make an impact on our world.

UCLA International Institute
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Global studies student blazes through UCLA, heads for career in international law

Mischa Gureghian Hall finished his B.A. in three, jam-packed years and soon heads to Oxford University, where he will do a law degree.

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Faculty News

Image for Cecilia Menjivar on how autocrats undermine democracies from within
Sep 23, 2024. Writing in Scientific American with co-author Deisy Del Real (USC), Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA sociology and Center for Study of International Migration) details how "a new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through their own institutions." Read More
Image for Steve Zipperstein receives teaching award
Jun 26, 2024. Steve Zipperstein, a global studies lecturer at the International Institute, was awarded a 2024 Hertie School of Governance Teaching Award after teaching his first course at the private graduate school in Berlin this spring. Zipperstein also teaches regularly for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Tel Aviv University. Read More
Image for Tejas Parasher wins Best First Book Award
Jun18, 2024. The Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded UCLA professor Tejas Parasher (political science & International Institute) the 2024 Best First Book Award for his monograph, “Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought” (Cambridge, 2023). Congratulations, Tejas! Read More
Image for Something to celebrate: A future woman president of Mexico
May 28 & 29, 2024. Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies Gaspar Rivera-Salgado spoke to the LA Times about national elections in Mexico on June 2, and was interviewed by Spectrum News. "Por primera vez una mujer será la presidenta de México, eso es algo histórico y es un avance democrático; hay que celebrar ese hecho ... [Estas elecciones son ]un plebiscito sobre el trabajo que ha hecho Andrés Manuel López Obrador... Read More
Image for Burial jars repatriated to the Philippines
A large collection of ancient Filipino burial jars from Sultan Kudarat was recently repatriated to the National Museum of the Philippines under the custodianship of UCLA anthropologist Stephen Acabado, director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Prior to the return of the collection, it was exhibited at the Filipino American Service Group in Los Angeles. Read More
Image for Biography of Ralph Bunche shortlisted for Elizabeth Longform Prize
May 14, 2024. Kal Raustiala's biography of Ralph Bunche, "The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire" (Oxford, 2022), is one of five books shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longform Prize for Historical Biography in 2024. The press release announcing the short list described his book as "a profile of a major diplomat who embodied the UN and its values, which is simultaneously a powerful commentary on racial issues... Read More

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