Jennifer Anderson, Atlantic history, race, colonialism, labor, commodities.
Michael Barnhart, U.S. foreign policy, U.S.–Japan relations.
Eric Lewis Beverley, South Asia, colonial and postcolonial studies, Muslim world.
Robert Chase, Post-1945 political, labor, and urban history, African American and Chicano/a history, radicalism, political and sexual violence, history of prisons and policing, civil rights, and Black and Brown Power movements.
Alix Cooper, Early modern Europe, history of science, medicine, and technology.
Jared Farmer, Environmental history, history of the American West.
Lori Flores, Mexican American, Latino/a, labor, gender, U.S.–Mexico borderlands, immigration history.
Gill Frank, 20th-century U.S., gender, race, sexuality, conservative activism, religion and culture, youth and childhood, GLBTQ studies.
Larry Frohman, Modern Europe, welfare and social policy, intellectual history of Germany and France, historiography.
Paul Gootenberg, Andes, economic-social history, drug history.
Susan Hinely, European intellectual history, women’s movements, international law, education.
Young-Sun Hong, Transnationalism, race, gender, modern Germany.
Ned Landsman, Colonial America, early modern Scotland, Atlantic history, religion, migration.
Brooke Larson, Peasants, race, and ethnicity, colonialism.
Herman Lebovics, European social and intellectual history.
Shirley Lim, 20th-century U.S. history, Asian-American history, women, cultural history.
Sara Lipton, Medieval Europe, religion, Judaic, gender.
Iona Man-Cheong, Late Imperial China, empire, maritime, transoceanic, diasporic, and transnational history.
Gary Marker, Russia, European social history.
April Masten, U.S. cultural history, 19th century.
Wilbur R. Miller, U.S. social history, police and criminality, Civil War and Reconstruction.
Janis Mimura, Modern Japan, political, economic, intellectual history.
Elizabeth Terese Newman, Mexico, environmental humanities, anthropology, archaeology.
Donna Rilling, U.S. colonial and early America, economic, business, social history.
Wolf Schäfer, Science, technology, global history.
Chris Sellers, U.S. cultural and environmental history, medicine and the body, transnational industrial and urban history.
Nancy Tomes, History of medicine, women and gender, U.S. cultural history.
Kathleen Wilson, Early modern British cultural and political history.
Paul Zimansky, Ancient Near East, ancient imperialism, archaeology.
Eric Zolov, Modern Latin America, U.S.–Latin American relations, popular culture, global 1960s.
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
Harald Braun (Institute for Global Studies), Global studies and diplomacy.
Ian Roxborough (Sociology), War and the military.
Warren Sanderson (Economics), Economic demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM
Congratulations to Prof. Paul Gootenberg, who has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Distinguished professorships are reserved for scholars who have achieved national or international prominence in their field.
Prof. Chris Sellers has written a online blog entry for the journal Dissent, reflecting on recent industrial disasters in Texas and Bangladesh, and drawing on his edited volume Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World.
Prof. Wolf Schafer has won a residential fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a center for advanced study in the humanities, public policy, social sciences, and arts. This is the first time a Stony Brook faculty has won this prestigious prize. Prof. Schafer’s winning project, “Finalization and Failure: A Comparative Management Study of Big Weapons Programs in World War II,” will compare the Manhattan Project with equivalent German efforts.
The online journal Common-place recently released a special issue on “Music and Meaning in Early America,” which features the article “Partners in Time” by Prof. April Masten. Drawing on her new research, Prof. Masten discusses affinities between African American and Irish jigs, and the methodological challenges of interpreting the history of dance.
Prof. Sara Lipton acts as consultant for and appears in a new documentary, Jews & Money, released by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lewis Cohen, which traces the age-old stereotype of the rich Jew, from medieval moneylenders to Nazi propaganda to international capitalism. The first showing is at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival in February. Future releases include the JCCSF in San Francisco, and a possible New York venue.
Prof. Nancy Tomes appears on This American Life, a weekly radio show that airs on more than 500 stations to about 1.8 million listeners. It is produced by Chicago Public Media, distributed by Public Radio International, and has won multiple major broadcasting awards. It is often the most popular podcast in the country, with around 700,000 people downloading each week. The broadcast will initially air Friday, January 25, and will subsequently be available for streaming and podcasting. Professor Tomes offers her views on the “Petticoat Affair” involving Andrew Jackson’s cabinet members and their wives, as part of the program’s theme, “Surrogates.”
Nation-State, Civil Society, Popular Politics
Empire, Colonialism, Globalization
Environment, Health, Science & Technology
Gender, Race, Sexuality