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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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