News and Announcements Archive:
This Wednesday! Come along to the History Club to discuss Women's History, Now in SBS N-303
Catch up on all of our recent faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student achievements in our Fall Newsletter!
Over the winter break, Professor Shobana Shankar is joining a faculty trip to the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) in Kenya, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, headed by Dr. Carl LeJuez, to support Stony Brook's new Collaborative for the Earth. TBI engages in research and education on energy, food, health, human environmental interactions, water, as well as the paleosciences, evolutionary biology and ecology. Students interested in early and modern history of environment, health, and science can check out TBI’s projects here.
The History Department's Spring Newsletter has just been published. Learn all about our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate accomplishments and other doings in the department this past spring semester! Attached HERE.
History Club Presentation Night
11.15.2023 I SBS N318 I 1pm
Come along on Wednesday evening for Disney's Pocahontas in SAC 312.
SBS N310 TODAY
Everyone's favorite TV game show comes to Stony Brook History Club.
Exciting new vinyl workshop hosted by Profesor Zolov. Please click on the image to view full details.
Join us in Harriman 201 for this exciting collaboration
Come along to the History Club Mixer on August 30 at 1pm, SBS Floor 3 Lobby.
Tamara Fernando has co-edited a special e-issue of Past & Present called "Flows of History," exploring the recent historiography on the topic of water through time. This is quite a coup for an early-career scholar. Congratulations, Tamara!
Congratulations to History Lecturer Dr. Mark Chambers, whose book Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840 (University of Tennessee Press) has just won the Clark C. Spence Book Award for 2023. The Mining History Association gives this award biennially to the best book in mining history.
CONGRATULATIONS to our Graduating Seniors! The History Department Graduation Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 19th in the Student Activities Center (SAC), Ballroom A. A breakfast reception starts at 8:15am with the ceremony to follow immediately at 9am sharp. Everyone is welcome and there is no limit on the number of guests attending.
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We are proud to announce awards to the following undergraduate students for History Department Scholarship Awards. Richard B. Martin Scholarship (demonstrating significant promise in the study of History): Alessandra Dimtchev, Brandon Chavez, Peiyao Guo, Angie Encarnacion, and Nicholas Mango. RDL Gardiner Scholarship (for a talented major focusing on American history): Kelcie Eberharth. Mitchell Scholarship (Recognizing student excellence and financial need): Tripp Hayes, Bethany Gatto. Congratulations to all!
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Phi Alpha Theta
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LACS Speaker Series
The Department of History mourns the loss Mike Davis, a former member of the department and author of numerous works dealing with themes of historical sociology, political economy, and social criticism. For a remembrance by Professor Sara Lipton see here.
Documentary Presentation
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Graduate History Conference
Join us for our 2022 Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Conference! See details HERE.
Colloquium
The History Department Colloquium presents Adrián Márquez (PhD Candidate). Join us online on September 28th at 1:00 P.M. EST for the presentation of "The Dawn of a Place of Vice: Montevidea in the 1920s-1920s." To access the event click here or contact Karl Nyckelymore.
Paul Gootenberg (Professor)
Dear Colleagues, students, and Friends of History: As I pass on the reins, after six years, to our new interim Chair of History, Professor Sara Lipton, let me say what a pleasure it was to serve a department that engages so many fine students, historians, and publics in the work we do as educators and scholars. The world needs clear historical perspectives now more than ever, and I am confident Stony Brook History will meet that urgent challenge. Crescat scientia; vita excolatur! Paul Gootenberg, Chair (2016-22)
Shirley Lim (Professor)
The department is excited to announce the newly appointed Graduate Program Director, Professor Shirley Lim. Professor Lim has served as Graduate Director in the past and while doing so earned the prestigious Dean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director.
LACS Discussion Panel
Congratulations to all who participated in "Chile After the Plebiscite: What the Vote on the New Constitution Means for Chile's Future." The bilinguial discussion panel was hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and moderated by Professor Eric Zolov. Keep up with all LACS events HERE.
Ximena López Carrillo (PhD 2022)
Congratulations to Ximena López Carrillo on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, "Chicano Activism, Professional Democratization, and the Community Mental Health Movement in Texas, 1954-1978" (thesis advisor: Nancy Tomes). Ximena will be returning to Yale where she is on a three-year teaching fellowship. We'll miss you Ximena!
Matías Hermosilla (PhD 2022)
Congratulations to recently minted PhD, Matías Hermosilla, who successfully defended his dissertation, "Creating a Playlist for the Third World: Cosmopolitan Solidarity, the New Left, and the Global Protest Song Movement, 1955-1975." A rich and intellectually stimulating defense — ¡felicidades!
Congratulations to our 2022 Graduates! Enjoy this short presentation of the wonderful accomplishments by our students this past year.
Graduation Presentation Spring 2022
Undergraduate History Journal
"Congratulations to the editorial team of the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal on the recent publication of Vol. 2 no. 4 of the journal! Pick-up a print copy of the journal in the History Lounge and visit the journal's homepage to read the digital version and past submissions."
Department Panel
Rob Chase (Professor)
Associate Professor Robert Chase has won a major Public Engagement grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), "Writing Beyond the Prison: Reimagining the Carceral Ecosphere with Incarcerated Authors," in collaboration with Susan Scheckel (English), Zebulon Miletsky (Africana Studies) and the Humanities Institute. The project involves creating a "Living Archive" and building a curriculum around the written work of over one-hundred incarcerated authors and their families. It is also an outreach effort beyond Stony Brook that involves two grass-roots organizations: HERSTORY and the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation (UBFSF), which was founded by an incarcerated author who turned to writing and a life of the mind as an escape from his 23-hour-a-day isolation cell.
Paul Gootenberg (Professor)
Book Launch:
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
Paul Gootenberg, Department of History, General Editor
Moderated by Liliana Dávalos, Ecology and Evolution
Thursday, April 14, 2022 | 4:00 pm
Register via Zoom | More details
Presented by the Institute of Globalization Studies
Conference
This conference is co-organized by Eric Zolov (History), Shimelis Gulema (Africana Studies), Sohl Lee (Art History), and Ben Tausig (Music).
For inquiries about the conference please contact eric.zolov@stonybrook.edu
Department Talk
Don't miss this historic debate sponsored by the History Club! Wednesday, April 6th at 1pm, N320
Pizza lunch and drinks for attendees!
Luncheon Discussion
Lunch provided but students must RSVP here by Monday, March 21st.
Book Presentation
Come along on March 23 to hear Professor Mark Chambers discuss his fascinating new book.
Colloquium
The History Department's Colloquium, on March 11th, 1:00 PM EST presented by Will Mack.
Please contactkarl.nycklemoe@stonybrook.edu for the zoom link.
March Madness Discussion
Come along to the History Club March Madness discussion on March 2nd @1pm.
Round Table
Stony Brook in the Global Sixties, Zuccaire Gallery (Staller Center, 1st Floor), Wed., Feb. 23rd, 4-7pm
Join us in part or whole for two fascinating roundtable discussions on the “Global Sixties.”
Film Screening
In honor of Black History Month, the History Club will be leading a discussion following a screening of the documentary The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, on February 16th at 1pm in N310 of SBS. Known as "the King of Soul," Sam Cooke was also a committed civil rights advocate who used his influence to promote the cause of justice and equality.
In Memoria: Dr. Christon Archer
Christon Archer, who received his PhD in Latin American History in 1971 at Stony Brook and was Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary (Alberta), passed away on December 19 at age 81. He was a scholar of colonial and independence-era Mexico and a specialist in military politics. For a remembrance see here.
In Memoria: Dr. Floris Barnett Cash
Note: "PhD (SBU, 2019) Aisha Scott (Left) with Dr. Floris Cash (Right)"
The Departments of Africana Studies and History mourn the passing of Dr. Floris Cash, faculty member of Africana Studies and History and former Chair of the original Africana Studies Program (1991-1994). Her research and publication interests spanned from African American whalers to the African American Women's Club Movement and the National Urban League. As Assoc. Professor April Masten reflected, "She was instrumental in attracting African American graduate students to the history department and gave her time and expertise generously to them as they wrote their dissertations."
Book Sale
University Speaker Series
Book Launch
Book launch for the Spanish edition of The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes , co-edited by Paul Gootenberg (History) and Liliana Dávalos (Ecology & Evolution), with a chapter contribution by María Clara-Torres (PhD, '20). Friday, November 19th, 9am (EST). For registration click here.
Department Talk
"Sprechen sie Deutsch?: Fascism in Korea, 1940-1950," Wednesday, November 10th, 2:40pm with Professors Young-Sun Hong and Janis Mimura in conversation with the speaker. Zoom registration via this link.
Department Event
"Lost in Latinx Brooklyn: Help Reconstruct a Family Photo Album," Thursday, November 11, 6:30pm, SBS N320
Department Newsletter
Our Fall Newsletter is out! Read about departmental happenings, faculty & student accomplishments, and more.
Phi Alpha Theta
Congratulations to our 2021 Phi Alpha Theta inductees! They celebrated their initiation into the History Honors Society with pizza and a discussion led by the History Club around the documentary, Bobby Kennedy for President.