Department of History Statement
In The Spotlight
Congratulations!!
Fernando Amador, who defended his dissertation in March, has just accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Digital and Environmental History at California State University.
Bonnie Soper, who recently defended her dissertation, has accepted the position of Assistant Professional Professor at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi where she will start in the fall.
Congratulations to Dafina Nedelcheva (PhD candidate) for winning the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship for her dissertation project, "Europe’s Post-Soviet (Memory) Spaces." The funding will permit Dafina to conduct additional research in Varna, Bulgaria in the coming year.
Congratulations to our Business Administrator, Erin Giuliano (MA, History '13), for being awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Staff Excellence Award! We are so thrilled to have Erin back in the department in this critical administrative role and cannot think of a more well-deserved award to honor her commitment to the History Department. Yay, Erin!
Karl Nycklemoe (PhD candidate) was awarded a "Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Grant" to spend two weeks in May at the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin State Historical Society in Madison, WI for dissertation research. Karl also received a Consortium Dissertation Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies in Philadelphia, PA, where he will be in residence for the 2024-25 academic year.
Congratulations to Will Mack (PhD, 2023) has been selected as the Carr Center Racial
Justice Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He will spend a year revising
his dissertation, "Triple Minority: Haitian Immigrants, Policing, Race and Identity
in New York City and Haiti During the Cold War," as a book manuscript.
News and Announcements
GRADUATION INFORMATION
Please click on the image below for information on Stony Brook University's Main Commencement Ceremony.
In The Media
Yalile Suriel (PhD, 2021) recently published an article that provides historical context to the contemporary police interventions on college campuses for Inside Education, "Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes of the 1960s?"
The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal has published its final article of the year, "The Revolutionary for the People: The Assassination of Fred Hampton," by Kyle DeVinney. DeVinney discusses how Fred Hampton’s assassination was a result of government corruption and prejudice, drawing on a variety of sources ranging from FBI memos, newspaper articles, and interviews to highlight the government’s involvement in Hampton’s death.
Stephanie Kelton, who teaches a course on the "Ideologies of Capitalism" in the History Department, will be on the Daily Show to promote the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) documentary, Finding the Money! Official US/Canadian release will be May 3 in NYC and will run in the city until May 9, locations on the website. The Daily Show is on Comedy Central at 11:00 pm EST and the latest episodes can be found here.
Congratulations to undergraduate Jordan Yang for his recent publication in the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, “’His Terrible Tribunal’: Lay and Ecclesiastical Authority in the Death of Thomas Becket.” Yang discusses how Thomas Becket's assassination resulted from his struggle with King Henry II, one that centered around conflicting notions of royal and ecclesiastical authority in the twelfth century.
Undergraduate Beth Gatto published her article, “Translation of Arabic Literature Under Alfonso X: A Case Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in Castile, 1251-1335” in the latest issue of the student-run History journal. Here she analyzes how the translation of Kalila wa-Dimna under Alfonso X’s reign impacted Castilian literature and portrays a more accurate depiction of Muslim-Christian relations in medieval Spain.
