Awards & Honors

Among the awards and fellowships earned by our faculty between 2003 and 2008 are:

  • 5 ACLS Fellowships
  • 4 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships
  • 3 National Humanities Center Fellowships
  • 3 President’s Teaching Awards
  • 3 Huntington Library Fellowships
  • 2 American Philosophical Society Fellowships
  • 2 Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships
  • 2 SUNY Chancellor’s Teaching Awards
  • 1 Max Plank Institute Fellowship (Germany)
  • 1 Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship
  • 1 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • 1 Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
  • 1 National Science Foundation Grant
  • 1 USAID
  • 1 Russell Sage Foundation
  • 1 Chemical Heritage Foundation

Multiple:

  • Fulbright Fellowships
  • Nantional Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships
  • Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Grants

Faculty Blog

Summer & Fall Courses

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

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Summer Session 1: May 29-July6
Summer Session 2: July 9-August 16
Fall Semester: August 27

(URECA) Undergraduate Research & Creativity

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

History Department URECA Itinerary
April 25th at the SAC – Room 305 – Please stop by!
An annual event that showcases undergraduate research and is open to all SBU undergraduates conducting faculty-mentored research and creative projects.

SBU Faculty Conduct Archaeological Excavations in Iraq

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

PRESS RELEASE: A team headed by two Stony Brook professors, Elizabeth Stone, Department of Anthropology and Paul Zimansky, Department of History, found evidence of an ancient settlement during the first archaeological excavation in Iraq outside of Kurdistan by any foreign team in a decade and the first by an American team in more than [...]

Department Colloquium Series (Spring 2012)

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Annette Ricciardi’s colloquium presentation, “Concubinage and Miscegenation in the Early Modern Dutch Atlantic World,” originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 28, is postponed until further notice.

Undergraduate Research & Creativity (URECA)

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Undergraduate Research & Creativity (URECA)
April 25th at the SAC – Mark your calendars and plan to stop by!
An annual event that showcases undergraduate research and is open to all SBU undergraduates conducting faculty-mentored research and creative projects.

Stony Brook Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th
1:00-2:15 PM
Social & Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Room N320
“A World of Many Flags: Privateering and the Strange Sovereignty of the Provincia Oriental”
Lauren Benton, New York University

Papers will be posted on the IHSS website:  http://www.stonybrook.edu/sociology/ihss/events.shtml

Talk by Andrew Hurley, Monday, Oct. 31, 11:45-1 pm

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

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 [...]

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Initiative for Historical Social Sciences (IHSS)

Wednesday, October 19th, 12:50 – 2:00 PM, SBS, Room N-320
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives – “Why State Strength and Weakness Persist: The Social Origins of State Power in 20th Century Latin America”
Hillel Soifer, Temple University – Department of Political Science
Wednesday, November 9th, 4:00 – 5:30 PM, SBS, Room N-318
Faculty Workshop – “The [...]

NY Times Editorial

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Our Professor Sara Lipton, in her New York Times editorial, offers real “lessons of the past” for the current “Weinergate” scandal.  See link below for the editorial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/opinion/17lipton.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Award News

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 [...]