Department of History

Check out the link to this video, prepared by the American Historical Association’s film-making team, on our graduate program here in the history department:

Preparing Historians for the Challenge of 21st Century Academia

Here are some pictures from the premiere showing of a video featuring our department’s graduate program, at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in San Diego, CA.   For those of you who couldn’t make it…

Spring 2010 Calendar

Stony Brook Faculty Workshop

Benedict Robinson (Thursday February 11, 12:50-2:10)

(Stony Brook University Department of English)

“DISGUST, C. 1610, FARINGDON WARD WITHOUT.”

New Research in Historical Social Sciences

Pablo Piccato (Tuesday March 9, 12:50-2:10)

(Columbia University, History Department. Director of ILAS – Institute of Latin American Studies)

“MURDER AND POLITICS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MEXICO”

New Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza (Wednesday April 14, 12:50-2:10)

(Stony Brook University Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology)

“HUMAN HISTORY AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR – RICH NEW LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY”

Monday, 14 December 2009, volume 21, issue 1, of the LIHJ went online with six articles, eight reviews, a video interview, the first images of its eMuseum and the “enhanced mission” of writing Long Island history into the larger framework of local, national, and global history.

The Editor in Chief, Charles Backfish, summarized the main content of volume 21, issue 1:

The articles in this first online issue of the Long Island History Journal underscore this enhanced mission. Our publisher and Editor at Large, Wolf Schäfer, sets the conceptual stage using a letter written by Albert Einstein (summering in what is now Cutchogue) to illustrate the intersection of global, national and local history. Joshua Ruff, Associate Editor, offers historical perspective on recent tensions on Long Island involving undocumented day laborers. Joseph Tiedemann’s article on Thomas Jones, a loyalist in the era of the American Revolution, examines the plight of a Long Island man of privilege confronted with the realities of a more democratic society. Frank Cavaioli traces the chartering of a prominent area educational institution in response to the area’s changing economic needs. Neil Buffett studies high school students organizing to call attention to environmental conservation, while Associate Editor Noel Gish profiles Lee Koppelman, whose important work as a planner in Nassau and Suffolk Counties spanned several decades and whose Center for Regional Policy Studies was the previous publisher of the LIHJ. This article serves as a companion piece to video excerpts from an interview with Koppelman, which inaugurates what will be an on-going feature of the LIHJ.

Margaret, Sharon, Gregory, Tao, Nicholas, Erin, Michelle, and William

1st year graduate students at holiday party 2009

September 30
Empire and Toleration: Some Comparative Thoughts
Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

October 28
Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Hyderabad-Bombay Frontier
Eric Lewis Beverley, Department of History, SUNY-Stony Brook

November 18
Be a Shareholder in Victory! Financial Nationalism and the American Citizen Investor in World War I
Julia Cathleen Ott, Committee on Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research

All meetings in Wednesdays 12:50-2:10 pm in SBS N320.

See IHSS homepage for more information.

Today the Emmy nominations for News and Documentaries were released, and our own Jennifer Anderson is among the nominees.  She has been nominated under the category, “Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft:  Research,” for her work on the PBS documentary, “Traces of the Trade,” a study of the DeWolfe family’s Northern slave trade.  Jenny writes, “Dredging the dusty files of the Bristol Historical Society was not terribly glamorous at the time, but still what fun to be nominated.”  Congratulations for the nomination, Jenny, and we look forward to watching you walk down the red carpet on September 21st at Lincoln Center.

The Undergraduate Studies Committee has added a section called “Writing Resources” to the Undergraduate page of this website.  The link will bring you to a useful list of errors to avoid and also a directory of helpful websites.  Pay a visit and let us know what you think.

All events will take place at SBS (Social and Behavioral Sciences Building) N-318

FROYLÁN ENCISO
The Author as Bureaucrat: Debates around the Diplomatic Works of Octavio Paz and the Latin American Traveler-Writers
3/4 (W) 12:50 PM

JUAN PABLO ARTINIAN
Politics of Visual Representation in Argentina; State Power and Popular Creativity: Antonio Berni and Ricardo Carpani (1950-1963)
3/25 (W) 1:00pm

ARIE PERLIGER
Understanding the Politics of Counterterrorism – A Comparative Analysis
4/16 (Th) 2:20pm

TOM BALCERSKI & STEPHEN SANFILIPPO
“The Little Spark of Manhood I Have Left:” Ballads, Petitions, and the “Aged, Decrepit, and Worn-out Seamen” of Sailors’ Snug Harbor
4/22 (W) 1:00pm

JEFF HALL
Olympic Village or Prison Town?: Building the Federal Prison at Ray Brook, New York, 1975-1990
4/29 (W) 1:00pm

JANIS MIMURA
Technocratic Modernity: Planning, Empire, and the State in Wartime Japan
5/6 (W) 1:00pm

Time and location are subject to change.

Flyers including abstracts and more detailed info will be handed out one week prior to each meeting. Please feel free to print, copy, or distribute any of these.

To receive e-mail updates or for further information please contact Sung Yup Kim.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries.” Military man and engineer, chronicler and diplomat, lord of a New English manor married to a Dutch woman, Gardiner led a life replete with crossings: of the English Channel to engage in Continental wars, of the Atlantic, of the lesser waters of Long Island Sound, of national, imperial, and colonial borders, of racial divides, and of the very bounds of colonial law. The many crossings in which he and his contemporaries were involved did much to create boundaries between things previously less clearly separated.

Conference website, schedule, and other info

On-line Registration

The Social Studies Education web site has moved!  The new URL is http://history.sunysb.edu/sse/.