The Center & Clark’s Director, Carla Pestana, UCLA Distinguished Professor and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, recently presented this year’s Annual William and Lois Mathews Samuel Pepys Lecture, “Striving for Expertise,” hosted by our colleagues at @uclacmrscegs . In her lecture, Pestana emphasized Pepys’s lifelong quest for expertise, focusing on his career in the Navy, where he meticulously collected data, organized information, and and strove to surpass his colleagues.