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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
Emeritus Faculty
Karl S. Bottigheimer, Early modern Europe, Britain, and Ireland.
David Burner, Political history, 20th century U.S. history
Ruth S. Cowan, History of science and technology, U.S. history.
Elizabeth Garber, History of science, European social and intellectual history.
Temma Kaplan (Women’s Studies), cultural and social movements, comparative history.
Joel T. Rosenthal Medieval history, Britain, social and family history
Fred Weinstein, History and Theory, Psychohistory, European History.
John A. Williams, South Africa, South Asia, expansion of Europe, European imperialism.
Judith Wishnia, France, women’s history, social history.
Faculty Blog
(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 [...]
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