Department of History

The Departments of History and Geosciences and the Humanities Center
Stony Brook University
Present

Conevery Bolton-Valencius
Department of History, University of Massachusetts Boston

Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes:

Creating Knowledge in the Early United States

In the winter of 1811-12, a series of sizable tremors rippled out from the middle Mississippi Valley.  What we now term the New Madrid [...]

Dangerous Trade
Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World

edited by Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling
Is now out from Temple University Press, December 2011.
Based on a December 2007 conference at Stony Brook University.  Follow the further discussion on our Facebook page:
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for [...]

Environment, Medicine, Techno-Science
Crosby, Alfred. Ecological imperialism : the biological expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Drayton, Richard. Nature’s government : science, imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Foucault, Michel. The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Haraway, Donna. Primate visions : gender, [...]

A Continuing Series on Environmental Studies and History Presents:
A talk by Professor Andrew Hurley
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Interpreting History in 3D:Applications of the Virtual City
in Communities, Classrooms, and Scholarship
Professor Hurley, a leading environmental and cultural historian, will speak about his and colleagues’ creation of the Virtual City, a “simulated world of downtown St. Louis from [...]

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 [...]

As a research project for my history of industrial hazards class (History 414), students created wikis on the history of some of Long Island’s hazardous waste sites, regulated under the EPA’s Superfund site.  We’ve now converted the results into publicly available websites.  Check it out if you are interested….
Overview
Suffolk County: Farmingdale area, Holbrook area,  Port [...]

Check out the following coverage of a joint effort by Stony Brook faculty and leaders and residents of the small suburban town of Port Jefferson, NY, to “Green Port Jefferson.” Page 12 details an effort to study Port Jefferson’s carbon footprint, led by Chris Sellers of the History Department, and Jessica Gurevitch, of the Department [...]

Please feel free to visit the website for the conference I recently convened at Stony Brook, along with University of Exeter’s Joseph Melling, December 13-15, 2008, on “Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World.”
Among the results of the conference are a planned edited volume, as well as a proposal for a Code [...]