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 [...]
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
The Social Studies Education web site has moved! The new URL is http://history.sunysb.edu/sse/.
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 [...]
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Spring 2011 Calendar:
Thursday, March 24th, 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
Author Meets Critic Session
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, New School, will comment on the recently published book “Human Rights and Memory” by Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider (Penn State Press, 2010).
Thursday, April 28th – Saturday, April 30th
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., N320
National Borders in [...]
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
“Reinventing Chronic Disease in the 20th Century”
George Weisz, PhD, McGill University
Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine in the
Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill Univ.
I: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 4:00-5:00 PM
Health Sciences Center, Level 2, Lecture Hall 4
II: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 12:45-2:00 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS), 3rd Floor, N318
For more information, visit, [...]
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of Professor Dominick Cavallo, a Stony Brook graduate who was Professor of History at Adelphi University. A native of Long Island, he received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Stony Brook, his dissertation directed by William Taylor and Fred Weinstein. He published often, his [...]
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
All presentations will be held in SBS N-318 from 12:50PM to 2PM.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011:
Suzanne Swartz, Medical Women, Eugenics, and Power: The Changing Positions of Female Physicians and Medical Students in Germany, 1931-1939
Wednesday, March 16, 2011:
Tim Nicholson, Cold War Educators in Tanzania
Wednesday, March 23, 2011:
Eric Cimino, Encounters between Travelers and the Travelers Aid Society: New York [...]
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The History Department has recently established a combined, 5-year BA/MA program in history. This program will allow highly qualified and motivated undergraduates to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 10 semesters. The program will provide a challenging 5th year of study that will serve as a springboard for those considering applying for doctoral [...]
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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 [...]
Department of History
