Awards & Achievements

Among the awards and fellowships earned by Stony Brook History Graduate Students, 2005-2008, are:

Dissertation Writing Fellowship, American Association of University Women

Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, Tinker Foundation

Erskine A Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Notre Dame

The Madeline Fusco Fellowship Award, Stony Brook University

Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship, TIAA-CREF Institute

Scobie Award, Conference of Latin American History

Fulbright Award (Brazil)

Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France

Social Science Research Council Fellowship

CONICIT Fellowship (Mexico)

Taiwan Ministry of Education Fellowship

Faculty-Staff Graduate Fellowship

Among the institutions where those with Stony Brook History doctorates now work are:

Brandeis University

College of Saint Rose

Hofstra University

Indiana University

Kansas State University

Ohio State University

Mississippi State University

Penn State University

Simon Fraser University

SUNY Albany

SUNY College of Technology

University of Delaware

University of Southern Alabama

Wellesley College

Westfield State College

York University

See the lists below for more details on all that recent Stony Brook history graduate students have been doing (2005-2006) :

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

Annessa Babic (2005) Hofstra University Faculty Development Grant, $400. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
Brenda Elsey (2005) Dissertation Writing Fellowship, $20,000. American Association of University Women, Washington, DC.
Yvonne Fabella (2005) Camargo Foundation Fellowship, $3,000. Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France.
Yvonne Fabella (2006-2007) Dissertation Fellowship, $18,000. McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
María Consuelo Figueroa (2005) Scobie Award. Conference of Latin American History (CLAH).
Luis Gomez (2005) TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowhip, $10,000. TIAA-CREF Institute, New York, NY.
Luis Gomez (2005) LASA’s XXVI International Congress Travel Grant, $500. Latin American Studies Association. Pittsburgh, PA.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) Dissertation Year Fellowship Travel Grant, $2,000. North American Conference on British Studies.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) Pre-doctoral Fellowship in British Art, $3,000. Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) Research Support Grant, £2,000. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2005) Tinker Research Foundation Summer Travel Grant, $1,100.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2005) Chincilla-Aguilar Fellowship, Spring/Summer, $300.
Sarah Marchesano (2006) The Madeline Fusco Fellowship Award, $2,500. State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
Matthew Scalena (2005-2009) Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Hernan Sorgentini (2005) Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, $1,245. Tinker Foundation. Latin American And Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
Katrina Thompson (2006) Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellowship/Visiting Scholar in the Social Sciences, $32,900. Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
Katrina Thompson (2006) Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellowship/Visiting Scholar in the Social Sciences, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ.
Katrina Thompson (2006) Erskine A Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship, $28,000. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

Conferences, Colloquiums, and Presentations

Allesandro Buffa (2005) The Cinematic Space: Memory, Place, and Urban Culture. Do the Right THing. Albany, NY.
Allesandro Buffa (2005) Race, Music and Urban Youth in Postwar New York. African Studies Group. Stony Brook, NY.
Allesandro Buffa (2005) Times of Harmony? Black/Italian Interactions in New York in the Age of Doo-Wop. History Colloquium Series. Stony Brook, NY.
Alessandro Buffa (2006) Black and Italian Youth in the postwar Bronx. Third Biennal Conference Urban History Association, Tempe, AZ.
Mark Chambers (2005) Contact and Cartography: Euroepan and Native Ameican Collaboration Produces NY Maps. 6th Annual Transatlantic History Conference: Cartography and Cartographic Imagery: Cultures and Consciousness, 1000-2005 AD. Arlington, TX.
Eric Cimino (2005) German Bourgeois Feminists Envision America, 1890-1914. Annual Meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians. West Point, NY.
Eric Cimino (2005) The Significance of the United States and the American Women’s Movement to the Development of German Bourgeois Feminism, 1890-1933. The International History Workshop. Philidelphia, PA.
Ron Van Cleef (2006) A Transnational Perspective on Homosexual Identity in West Germany. International History Workshop at Temple University’s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy
Dianne Creagh (2005) Treading the Margins of Whiteness: Substitute Parents and Standards of Fitness During the Great Depression. Adoption and Culture. Tampa, FL.
Yvonne Fabella (2005) An Empire Founded on Libertinage: the Mulatresse and Colonial Anxiety. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Claremont, CA.
María Consuelo Figueroa (2005) Female’s Honor: Collective Imaginaries and Everyday Practices, Chile, 1750’s-1850’s. Women Change America. Stony Brook, NY.
María Consuelo Figueroa (2005) The Said and the Silenced: War Accounts in the Creation of the Chilean Nation, 1879-1884. Open Horizon/Abriendo el Horizonte. New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latin America. Stony Brook, NY.
María Consuelo Figueroa (2006) The Said and the Silenced. War Accounts in the Creation of the Chilean Nation. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Luis Gomez (2006) El Señor de los Milagros: an invented Peruvian Tradition in the Americas. XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association: De-Centering Latin American Studies. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Alberto Harambour (2006) Metropolitan Racializations. Argentinean and Chilean Travelers to Patagonia, 1970-1930’s.Open Horizon/Abriendo el Horizonte. New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Latin America. Stony Brook, NY.
Alberto Harambour (2005) Chilostes y Federados: Race, Ethinicity, and Class in the Federacion Obrera de Magallanes, Chile, 1911-1925. Patagonia: Myths and Realities. Manchester, UK.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) Gardens of the Dead: Cemetaries and Landscape in Early Nineteenth Century Britain. Yale British Studies Colloquium. Yale University, CT.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) Minding One’s Mournings: Burial and Manners in Victorian Britain. Victorian Visual Culture Studies Reading Group. Yale University, CT.
Sarah Hoglund (2005) The Birth of the Cemetary: Death and the Construction of British Identities. Southern Conference on British Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Jeremey Hubbell (2005) The Globalty of Milling Machines. Diagram and Scribbles Archive. Stony Brook, NY.
Jeremy Hubbell (2006) Panel: Pondering the Urban Environmental History of Minneapolis. Rivers Run Through Them: Landscapes in Environmental History. St. Paul, MN.
Jeremy Hubbell (2006) Minneapolis as Urban Environment. Rivers Run Through Them: Landscapes in Environmental History. St. Paul, MN.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2006) Chair and Presenter fo the First Black Champions and the Exodus of “Gentleman” from Brazilian Football: Issues of Race and Class in Brazil 1900-1930’s. LASA 2006 Conference Panel on Critical Perspectives in Media and Popular Culture. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2006) The First Black Champions, Vasco de Gama, and the Exodus of “Gentleman” from Brazilian Football: Issues of Race and Class in Brazil 1900-1930. 5th Annual Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Manhattan, NY.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2005-2006) Organizer for the Durable Inequalities Workshop for the Rockefeller Fourndation, New York, NY.
Michael Murphy (2005) A Revolutionary with a Job: The Life Story of General Baker. Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association. Providence, RI.
Seth Offenbach (2006) Power and Portrayal: The Media and Young Americans for Freedom, 1960-1968. Journal of Policy History Conference. Charlottesville, VA.
Stephen Patnode (2006) I’m gointo send an A-6 over your factory and bomb it: Masculinity and Corporate Culture in the Post-war United States. The 120th Annual AMerican Historical Association Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
Matthew Scalena (2006) Lives Remembered: an Exploration of the Life Stories of Chilean Exiles. Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Annual Interdiciplinary Conference. SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
Matthew Scalena (2006) I was Part of IT! Exploring Gender and Class in the Narratives of Chilean Exiles. Oral History Association Annual Meeting. Providence, RI.
Arieh Sclar (2006) A Sport at Which Jews Excel: The Search for Basketball in American Jewish History. Stony Brook University History Department, Spring 2006 Colloquium Series, Stony Brook, NY.
Hernan Sorgentini (2005) The Politics of the Past During the Democratic Transition in Argentina. 30th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Portland, OR.
Hernan Sorgentini (2006) Battles for Historical Representation at the Times of Dictatorship, Argentina 1976-1982. 5th Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Student Conference “Miradas desde el Sur/Views from the South.” Stony Brook, NY.
Katrina Thompson (2006) The Tainted and the Bleached: Black Performance and White Audience. Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Buffalo, NY. Mid-West Popular Culture Association. St. Louis, Missouri. Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference. University of Colorado, CO.

Publications and Reviews

Annessa Babic (2005) Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources. The Essential Primary Source Series. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda WIlmoth Lerner (eds.). New York: Thompson Gale.
Annessa Babic (2005) Gender and Sexuality Issues: Essential Primary Sources. The Essential Primary Source Series. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda WIlmoth Lerner (eds.). New York: Thompson Gale.
Annessa Babic (2005) Civil and Human Rights: Essential Primary Sources. The Essential Primary Source Series. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda WIlmoth Lerner (eds.). New York: Thompson Gale.
Gregory Jackson Jr. (2005) Roundtable Discussion: Tinker Research Foundation Field Report.

Professional Appointments

Christin Cleaton (2006) Assistant Professor. Department of History, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA.
Christine Contrada (2005) Assistant Professor of History. History Department, Germanna Community College, Fredericksburg, VA
Brenda Elsey (2006) Assistant Professor. History Department, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
Terry Hamblin (2005) Assistant Professor. History and Economics Department, SUNY College of Technology at Delhi, Delhi, NY.
Joel Vessels (2005) Instructor. History/Political Science/Geography Departments, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY.
Tong Xu (2006) Assistant Professor. Departmetn of History, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY.

Graduate Blog

HIS 542–Modern Latin American History (Graduate Field Seminar)

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level students who intend to go on to a Ph.D. in Latin American History, though advanced students from other geographic concentrations, disciplines, and area universities are more than welcome.

The focus is mainly historiographical or methodological: We critically engage–via intensive readings, weekly discussions, and debate–about ten model monographs in the field. Rather than cover all of the “great books” in this vibrant field, whether of trendy or classic vintage, we’ll concentrate on a broad theme found through much recent historiography: nation-building, nationalisms, nationality, and the construction of national identities in the region. The seminar begins by revisiting Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (a book which has worked its influence everywhere) and by sharpening some perspectives on questions of nationality. Then, with close readings of a dozen or so major new monographs, we’ll examine diverse angles on Latin American “nationalisms”: from the cultural, peasant, regional, and ethnic nation to the revolutionary, gendered, and even trans-national kind. (Sorry: some obvious topics, such as economic or labor nationalism, or citizenship and nation, get overlooked here) We hope to end up with a critical awareness of how well Latin American historians–at least those working in the United States– have deployed such concepts for post-colonial Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

- Requirements/Expectations
- There are a few basic requirements for the seminar. 1) Consistent commitment to readings and to energetic participation in weekly group discussions. 2) A collective writing assignment–of 7-9 pages–during Weeks 6-7, to evaluate how you think and write on paper. 3) Concurrent participation in the New York City Workshop in Latin American History (NYCWLAH), a collaborative project with scholars from Columbia and NYU. The Workshops are scheduled from 12-2 on three Fridays (Sept. 24, Oct. 26th, Nov. 30) at Stony Brook Manhattan (28th and Park Ave). Students report on at least one of these seminars 4) A final paper, due December 11, of 12-15 pages, surveying a national historiography of “nationalism/national identities” for one Latin American country, or a comparative essay on a specific thematic approach to nationality across several historiographic sites. Paper topics should be narrowed by Week 8, in time for the scheduled individual student conferences.
- Readings
- Major Latin-Americanist Monographs:
- Benedict Anderson, IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: REFLECTION ON THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF MODERN NATIONALISM (Verso, 1995, revised version)
- Claudio Lomnitz, DEEP MEXICO, SILENT MEXICO: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF NATIONALISM (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2001)
- Mark Thurner, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED: CONTRADICTIONS OF POST-COLONIAL NATIONMAKING IN ANDEAN PERU (Duke Univ. Press, 1997)
- Ada Ferrer, INSURGENT CUBA: RACE, NATION AND REVOLUTION, 1868-1898
- (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999)
- Greg Grandin, THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA: A HISTORY OF RACE AND NATION
- (Duke Univ. Press, 2000)
- Nancy Appelbaum, MUDDIED WATERS: RACE, REGION, AND LOCAL HISTORY IN COLOMBIA, 1846-1948 (Duke University Press, 2003)
- Daryle Williams, CULTURE WARS IN BRAZIL: THE FIRST VARGAS REGIME, 1930-45
- (Duke University Press, 2001)
- Eric Zolov, REFRIED ELVIS: THE RISE OF THE MEXICAN COUNTERCULTURE
- (Univ. Of California Press, 1999)

Conference: “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner”

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries.” Military man and engineer, chronicler and diplomat, lord of a New English manor married to a Dutch woman, Gardiner led a life replete with crossings: of the English Channel to engage in Continental wars, of the Atlantic, of the lesser waters of Long Island Sound, of national, imperial, and colonial borders, of racial divides, and of the very bounds of colonial law. The many crossings in which he and his contemporaries were involved did much to create boundaries between things previously less clearly separated.

Conference website, schedule, and other info

On-line Registration

Stony Brook Initiative in the Historical Social Sciences

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Please click here for this fall’s schedule of papers and speakers in this initiative. The series is a collaborative effort of the History and Sociology Departments at Stony Brook.

Conferences (2008-09)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Mark your calendars for two major conference being sponsored by the History Department in 2008-2009.

I. “Cosmopolis 18th Century in the Age of Sail”

Stony Brook Manhattan October 23 and October 24, 2008

Schedule, Abstracts, Bios of Main Speakers

II. “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner, c. 1599-1663: Crossings and Boundaries”

Stony Brook, New York, March 20-21, 2009

Conference site, schedule, and other info

Registration

Link to the call for papers

Department Colloquium Series (Spring 2007)

Monday, January 15th, 2007

All presentations will be held in SBS N303.

Dr. Chris Sellers, “What was Earth Day?”
Thursday, February 9, 2007, 2:20-3:40pm

Dr. Robert Goldenberg, “When did ‘the Jews’ begin to Notice Christianity?”
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm

Dr. April Masten
“The Challenge Dance: Mid-Nineteenth Century Migrations of Afro-Celtic Popular Culture”
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm

Alberto Harambour
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm