Congratulations to Gregory Rosenthal, whose article “Life and Labor in a Seabird Colony: Hawaiian Guano Workers, 1857-1870″ has been accepted for publication in the journal Environmental History. Environmental History is the world’s leading scholarly journal in environmental history and the journal of record in the field. Gregory prepared and wrote the first versions of this paper last year, in the department’s core seminar for entering graduate students.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists in its eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada.  One of this year’s recipients: Mrinalini Sinha, Stony Brook History Ph.D., who is an Alice Freeman Palmer Professor in the Department of History and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. She has written on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism, gender, and transnational approaches. She has recently become interested in the different forms of political imaginings, beyond the nation-state, that animated anti-colonial thought in India at least until the interwar period. Her Guggenheim project, with the title “Complete Political Independence: The Curious History of a Nationalist Indian Demand,” will explore the contingency of the development of the nation-state form in India. Congratulations!

Mwagi Njagi, Stony Brook History Ph.D., has become Director of American University Programs in Kenya and adjunct professor in its School of International Service. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Froylán Enciso, History Department, Ph.D. candidate, on his recent award from the SSRC in its highly competitive Drugs, Security and Democracy (DSD) Fellowship program. The DSD program supports research on organized crime, drug policy, issues of governance, and associated topics across the social sciences and related disciplines in Latin America and the Caribbean. The fellowship seeks to develop a concentration of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant outcomes and membership in a global interdisciplinary network.

Congratulations to Mark Rice, History Department, Ph.D. candidate, whose article entitled “Transnational Business and U.S. Diplomacy in Late Nineteenth-Century South America: W. R. Grace & Co. and the Chilean Crises of 1891″ was selected for print into the Journal of Latin American Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. The Journal presents recent research in the field of Latin American studies in economics, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, social anthropology, and history.

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

Fall Semester: August 27

The Departments of History and Technology and Society and the Humanities Institute

Stony Brook University

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Ann Green
Department of History and Sociology of Science

University of Pennsylvania

“Rethinking Energy Histories and Landscapes”

Current concerns over energy consumption and environmental consequence are creating growing scholarly interest in energy history, and especially in understanding the energy transitions of the past.   Changes in the kinds of energy consumed and in levels of energy consumption have long been central to an understanding of industrialization.   Yet the focus has been largely on wood, coal and oil, overlooking other forms of widely consumed energies.  This talk emphasizes the critical role of animal power in American industrialization, and reexamines how the question of transition away from animal power is understood in historical literature.
Monday, April 30, 2012
3:30 p.m. Humanities 1008

Ann Green is the author of, among many publications, “Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America” (Harvard UP, 2008), winner of the 2009 Pioneer America Society Fred B. Kniffen Award for best book.

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.

Summer Session I (May 29 – July 6)

TuTh 6:00-9:25

As featured in television shows like “Dirty Jobs” and “Deadliest Catch,” and in current news about clean-up workers exposed to toxic dust at Ground Zero, the interrelationships between work and environment are sometimes exciting, and sometimes downright dangerous and deadly. This is nothing new. Work environments have long been important sites of courage and risk, a stage for performing and proving one’s gender, racial, or national identity. Work environments have also been sites of cooperation and conflict between diverse peoples, and between people and non-human nature.

Child Coal Miners (1908)
(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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This course examines the relationships between work and environment in United States history from the colonial period to the present day, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will use books, articles, films, and students’ own real-world experiences with, and explorations of, work, to arrive at a common understanding of the place of work and environment in United States history. We will also seek to discover the parallels, if any, between the historical events and processes we study, and current issues in American society and politics. Students are expected to complete all readings, write two short papers, and produce a final project.

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