ALUMNI NEWS
What careers are open to you after completing your studies with Stony Brook History? Click on the links below to see what our alumni are up to.
2023:
Sep 2023 - Yalile Suriel (Ph.D. 2021), published "The Making of a University Police Department in an Era of Activism" in The Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Volume 8, Issue 2 (adapted from her dissertation)
July 2023 - Matías Hermosilla (PhD, '22) and Prof. Eric Zolov co-edited a Special Issue, "La pregunta por lat cultura popular" for the journal Autoctonía: Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia,bringing together six articles by Latin American scholars on new directions in popular culture studies.
July 2023 - Dr. Juan Pablo Artinian's new book, "Genocide and Resistance" by University of Buenos Aires Press was recently featured in Armenian Weekly (July 2023)
May 2023 - Mia Brett (PhD, Race & Gender in the US 2020) was recently just hired for a tenure track position at Suffolk Community College to teach African American history and help develop their race and ethnicity courses. Mia feels very fortunate to have been hired for a tenure track position after completing her PhD at Stony Brook.
May 2023 - Heather Barry (PhD, American History, 2002) was recently named Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at St. Joseph's University.
Congratulations to David Purifacto (PhD, 2021) who just landed a tenure-track job at River State College in Florida.
- 2023
2023
Yalile Suriel (Ph.D. 2021), published "The Making of a University Police Department in an Era of Activism" in The Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Volume 8, Issue 2 (adapted from her dissertation)
July 2023 - Matías Hermosilla (PhD, '22) and Prof. Eric Zolov co-edited a Special Issue, "La pregunta por lat cultura popular" for the journal Autoctonía: Revista de Ciencias Sociales e Historia,bringing together six articles by Latin American scholars on new directions in popular culture studies.
July 2023 - Ph.D. alum Yalile Suriel has now published an anthology Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence (University of Washington Press, 2024). Congratuations to Yalile on this important work!
July 2023 - Dr. Juan Pablo Artinian's new book, "Genocide and Resistance" by University of Buenos Aires Press was recently featured in Armenian Weekly (July 2023)
May 2023 - Mia Brett (PhD, Race & Gender in the US 2020) was recently just hired for a tenure track position at Suffolk Community College to teach African American history and help develop their race and ethnicity courses. Mia feels very fortunate to have been hired for a tenure track position after completing her PhD at Stony Brook.
May 2023 - Heather Barry (PhD, American History, 2002) was recently named Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at St. Joseph's University.
Congratulations to David Purifacto (PhD, 2021) who just landed a tenure-track job at River State College in Florida.
- 2022
2022
September 2022 Congratulations to David Purifacto (PhD, 2021) who just landed a tenure-track job at River State College in Florida.
September 2022 - Congratulations to Dexter Gabriel (PhD, 2016) whose dissertation was recently published by Cambridge University Press, Jubilee's Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism. Dexter is already famous for his sci-fi books published under an alias, and which will soon be optioned for a movie!
August 2022 - Congratulations to Magally Alegre Henderson (PhD, 2012) who was recently appointed Director of the archive of the Instituto Riva Aguero in Peru. For more information on the institution click here.
April 4, 2022 - Juan Pablo Artinian (PhD 2013), Assistant Professor of History at DiTella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, recently published two articles commemorating the 1915 Turkish genocide of Armenians, La Red de la Resistencia durante el Genocidio Armenio (clarin.com) and Zabel y Aurora: dos mujeres armenias que sobrevivieron al genocidio de 1915 - Infobae
February 01 2022 - Congratulations to Ronald Van Cleef (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor of History at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), on the publication of his first book, A Tale of Two Movements? Gay Radicalism in West Germany, 1969-1989 (Metropol Verlag).
- 2021
2021
16 November 2021 - Annalyda Álvarez Calderón (PhD, 2009), recently published En búsqueda de la ciudadanía indígena: Puno 1900-1930 (2021).
10 November 2021- Congratulations to Paul Conrad (BA in History, '04) on the publication of his first monograph, The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (UPenn Press). Dr. Conrad is currently Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington.
8 March 2021 - Aishah Scott (PhD 2019) has a secured a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Management Department and Black Studies at Providence College.
15 January 2021 — Michael Conrad (PhD 2019) is working as Program Manager and Executive Officer for Clarkson University's Beacon Institue for Rivers and Estuaries. He recently recorded a podcast about brickmaking in the Hudson Valley for the National Park Service.
8 January 2021— María Clara Torres (PhD 2020) has won the prestigious AHA-Conference on Latin American History's Lewis Hanke Prize for best dissertation, with support to transform it into a book. The title of María Clara's dissertation is “The Roots of an Illicit Peasant Crop: Coca in Colombia, 1950–2010." ¡Felicidades María Clara!
- 2020
2020
29 October 2020— Clarence (Jeff) Hall (PhD 2014), Assistant Professor of History at Queensborough Community College (CUNY), has publicated his first book, A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country (Univ. Mass. Press, 2020). This publication is based on his doctoral dissertation.
13 October 2020 — Chanhaeng Lee (PhD, '12) Secured a tenure track job in the History Department at Chungbuk National University (South Korea) and has published two recent journal articles, “ Chocolate Suburb, Vanilla Power: Race, Space and Civil Unrest in Ferguson” and “ Migration to the ‘First LargeSuburban Ghetto’ in America: Korean Immigrant Merchants in South Central Los Angeles in the early 1980s.”
- 2019
2019
27 August 2019 — Ron Van Cleef (PhD, '14) accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Queensborough Community College (CUNY).
22 October 2019 — Neil Buffett (SCCC) has published an article in the Journal of Urban History entitled, "Crossing the Line: High School Student Activism, the New York High School Student Union, and the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville Teachers’ Strike."
25 July 2019 — Andrés Estefane (PhD, '17) has been promoted to director of CEHIP (a center for political history) at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, and elected president of the Chilean Association of Historians.
2 July 2019 — Kelly Jones (PhD, '17) has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.
30 June 2019 — Ashley Black (PhD, '17) has secured a tenure-track post in Latin American History at California State University-Stanislaus.
- 2018
2018
19 December 2018 — Justin Williams ('11) has received tenure at CUNY's Center for Worker Education, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
19 December 2018 — James Nichols ('12) has received tenure at Queensboro Community College (CUNY).
28 August 2018 — Mark Rice ('14) has published his new book, Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in 20th-century Peru (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Mark is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Baruch College.
30 July 2018 — Sung Yup Kim ('16) is newly appointed Assistant Professor of History at Seoul National University.
16 July 2018 — Raquel Otheguy ('16) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History at Bronx Community College.
1 July 2018 — James D. Nichols ('12) has published a new book, The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexican-U.S. Border , has just been published by Nebraska University Press. A preview is available here. James is Assistant Professor of History at Queensborough Community College (CUNY).
- 2017
2017
5 December 2017 — Stephanie J. Smith (Ohio State) has a new book with UNC Press: The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico.
6 November 2017 — Raquel Otheguy ('16) just won the NECLAS (New England Council of Latin American Studies) annual "Best Dissertation Prize" for her thesis on race and education in Cuba.
30 October 2017 — Mark Rice (Baruch College) just published "Good Neighbors and Lost Cities: Tourism, the Good Neighbor Policy, and the Transformation of Machu Picchu," in Radical History Review. His book is forthcoming from UNC Press.
27 February 2017 — Gregory Rosenthal (Roanake College) has been selected for inclusion the 40th Anniversary Virtual Issue of the journal for an article of his that exemplifies "path-breaking scholarship that has shaped our field."
19 February 2017 — Ying-Ying Chu ('16) has found full-time employment as an assistant professor of history at National Taipei University.
2 February 2017 — Kevin Young (UMass Amherst) just published Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia (University of Texas Press).
9 January 2017 — Nichole Prescott ('15) has landed a great job: Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. In her new position, Prescott will focus on helping minority and underrepresented students succeed in college.
- 2016
2016
15 October 2016 — Paul E. Pedisich ('98) just published Congress Buys a Navy: Politics, Economics, and the Rise of American Naval Power, 1881–1921 (Naval institute Press).
16 March 2016 — Dexter Gabriel has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Connecticut.
3 February 2016 — Gregory Rosenthal (Roanoke College) has been awarded the 2016 Rachel Carson Prize for best dissertation in environmental history from the American Society for Environmental History.
- 2015
2015
1 August 2015 — Kevin Young ('13) has begun a tenure-track position as assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
28 September 2015 — Michael Murphy has secured a full-time position in the Office of the Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives. The position primarily involves the production of oral histories.
12 June 2015 — Clarence Jefferson Hall (Queensborough Community College) has been interviewed by the New York Times, National Public Radio, CNN, and other news outlets in regard to the recent prison outbreak in upstate New York.
31 May 2015 — Gregory Rosenthal ('15) has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
- 2014
2014
19 May 2014 — Eric Cimino has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York.