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Category Archives: UCLA
Lynn Hunt and the Cultural Turn
Lynn Avery Hunt (b. 1945) remade the study of the French Revolution and the wider practice of cultural history. Her work pulled historical scholarship away from explanations built on class and economic structure toward the study of culture, language, symbol, … Continue reading
Between Archive and Advocacy: The Career of David N. Myers – Part One
Part Two. David N. Myers, born in 1960 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA. His career spans more than three decades and encompasses Zionist historiography, German-Jewish thought, diaspora nationalism, and American … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Grok says: UCLA Luskin (ranked #16 nationally in 2025–2026 U.S. News) combines Public Policy, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning into one public-affairs school with an explicit mission to “advance solutions to society’s most pressing problems” through equity, anti-racism, and community-engaged … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Grok says: UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) is a top-20 research medical school (U.S. News 2025–2026) with massive NIH funding, world-class clinical training through UCLA Health (one of the nation’s best hospital systems), and a highly diverse patient … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television (TFT)
Grok says: UCLA TFT is one of the most prestigious film/theater schools in the country (consistently top 3–6 nationally) with unmatched industry pipelines to Hollywood, the largest university-based media archive, and an explicit mission to “empower diverse artists, scholars, and … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Department of Psychology
Grok says: UCLA Psychology is a large, high-output department in the College of Letters & Science, consistently ranked in the national top 8–12 and world top 15. It is exceptionally strong in cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, affective science, quantitative methods, … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Grok says: UCLA Fielding (ranked #8 nationally in 2025 U.S. News & World Report, top-10 in every specialty) is one of the premier public-health schools in the country, with five departments (Biostatistics, Community Health Sciences, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Grok says: UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (Ed&IS) is a top-5 nationally ranked education school that merges the Department of Education (urban schooling, teacher prep, leadership) with the Department of Information Studies (library/informatics, digital equity, archival studies). … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In UCLA’s Anthropology Department
Grok says: UCLA Anthropology has a strong four-field structure and a dominant cultural-anthropology profile centered on race/ethnicity/diaspora, visual/media anthropology, urban studies, medical anthropology, migration, and engaged/public work. Its location in Los Angeles — the ultimate global, multicultural, media-saturated city — … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders At UCLA Now
UCLA’s leadership believes its position as a world-class public research university serving California’s diverse population represents a coherent institutional identity rather than an increasingly unstable combination of incompatible missions, serving underprepared first generation students while competing for Nobel laureates, maintaining … Continue reading
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