This month's Books of the Month list features works authored or edited by faculty, focusing on gender, sexuality and societal norms. Learn more about queer theory, the history of hormone replacement therapy and how topics like gender and sexuality are treated in rural areas.
Alum Harry Shontz (LS '12), who majored in history and psychology at UC Davis, received a 2025-26 Milken Educator Award. The award, one of the most highly regarded honors for K-12 teachers, recognizes overall excellence.
Stacy Fahrenthold, a professor of history, has been awarded the 2026 David Montgomery Award for her book Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class. The book also won the 2025 Nikkie Keddie Award.
A recent decision in Virginia restores voting rights based on a law from 1870 that sought to prevent discrimination by the state. Legal briefs written by UC Davis experts provided the historical groundwork for that decision.
Javier Zamora, poet and author of this year’s UC Davis Campus Community Book Project selection, spent the morning with a classroom of students who are learning the immigrant histories of their own families.
As a professor of history and UC Davis associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor teaches and coaches them through both common challenges, like how to connect with a faculty advisor, and very thorny ones that don’t always have clear solutions.
Kathleen DuVal, history Ph.D. alum and 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner, returned to UC Davis to give a talk to a packed audience at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center on February 25 to share her research on Tecumseh, a 19th century Native American leader.
From medieval medical tools and methodologies to modern analyses of health care access for women and marginalized groups, our scholars bring context and new connections to a topic that is both contentious yet necessary to daily life and humanity's existence.
Federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis is part of a larger history of government violence against citizens and non-citizens alike. However, today’s technology, rhetoric and legal tensions are changing what that violence means for society.
For this edition of Books of the Month, as protests and political divides continue to disrupt lives across the U.S., we’ve selected books that grapple with these issues, telling stories of both survival and resistance.
