Archive for June, 2011

NY Times Editorial

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Our Professor Sara Lipton, in her New York Times editorial, offers real “lessons of the past” for the current “Weinergate” scandal.  See link below for the editorial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17lipton.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Award News

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

We are very proud to announce that Nancy Tomes, history of medicine, women and gender studies and US cultural history, is the winner of the 2011 Arthur J. Viseltear Award, presented by the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Medical Care section. The honor is given annually to a historian who has made outstanding contributions to [...]

HIS 301.02: The World of the Indian Ocean (Fall 2011)

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

SBS N-310
Wednesdays
5:20-8:10 PM
Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider several different [...]

New Social Studies Education web site

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

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

A Notable Promotion

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has appointed our colleague Harald Braun as Staatssekretär (State Secretary, equivalent to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State) effective July 2011.
Harald is Research Professor for Global Studies and Diplomacy in the Department of History and at the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies (SBIGS). According to a recent article in [...]