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 [...]

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 [...]

This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History.  It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program.  All others, including MAT students, must have the instructor’s permission to enroll.
The readings will include a mixture of thematic, theoretical and geographically focused texts.  [...]

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 [...]

Please click here for this fall’s schedule of papers and speakers in this initiative. The series is a collaborative effort of the History and Sociology Departments at Stony Brook.

Mark your calendars for two major conference being sponsored by the History Department in 2008-2009.
I. “Cosmopolis 18th Century in the Age of Sail”
Stony Brook Manhattan October 23 and October 24, 2008
Schedule, Abstracts, Bios of Main Speakers

II. “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries”
Stony Brook, New York, March 20-21, 2009
Conference site, schedule, [...]

All presentations will be held in SBS N303.
Dr. Chris Sellers, “What was Earth Day?”
Thursday, February 9, 2007, 2:20-3:40pm
Dr. Robert Goldenberg, “When did ‘the Jews’ begin to Notice Christianity?”
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm
Dr. April Masten
“The Challenge Dance: Mid-Nineteenth Century Migrations of Afro-Celtic Popular Culture”
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm
Alberto Harambour
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm