Department of History

Congratulations to Gregory Rosenthal, whose article “Life and Labor in a Seabird Colony: Hawaiian Guano Workers, 1857-1870″ has been accepted for publication in the journal Environmental History. Environmental History is the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental history and the journal of record in the field. Gregory prepared and wrote the first versions of this paper last year, in the department’s core seminar for entering graduate students.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists in its eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada.  One of this year’s recipients: Mrinalini Sinha, Stony Brook History Ph.D., who is an Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. She has written on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism, gender, and transnational approaches. She has recently become interested in the different forms of political imaginings, beyond the nation-state, that animated anti-colonial thought in India at least until the interwar period. Her Guggenheim project, with the title “Complete Political Independence: The Curious History of a Nationalist Indian Demand,” will explore the contingency of the development of the nation-state form in India. Congratulations!

Mwagi Njagi, Stony Brook History Ph.D., has become Director of American University Programs in Kenya and adjunct professor in its School of International Service. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Froylán Enciso, History Department, Ph.D. candidate, on his recent award from the SSRC in its highly competitive Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Fellowship program. The DSD program supports research on organized crime, drug policy, issues of governance, and associated topics across the social sciences and related disciplines in Latin America and the Caribbean. The fellowship seeks to develop a concentration of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant outcomes and membership in a global interdisciplinary network.

Congratulations to Mark Rice, History Department, Ph.D. candidate, whose article entitled “Transnational Business and U.S. Diplomacy in Late Nineteenth-Century South America: W. R. Grace & Co. and the Chilean Crises of 1891″ was selected for print into the Journal of Latin American Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. The Journal presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in economics, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, and history.

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History Department URECA Itinerary
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PRESS RELEASE: A team headed by two Stony Brook professors, Elizabeth Stone, Department of Anthropology and Paul Zimansky, Department of History, found evidence of an ancient settlement during the first archaeological excavation in Iraq outside of Kurdistan by any foreign team in a decade and the first by an American team in more than 20 years.

Undergraduate Research & Creativity (URECA)
April 25th at the SAC – Mark your calendars and plan to stop by!

An annual event that showcases undergraduate research and is open to all SBU undergraduates conducting faculty-mentored research and creative projects.