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Greetings from the Department of History.
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| Department of History Winter 2024 Newsletter |
Dear History Alumni and Friends,
Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself, for those of you who may not know me.
I recently completed my first semester as chair of the Department of History, having returned from a dream year at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and All Souls College, Oxford. On behalf of our Department, I wholeheartedly thank Paul Kelton, professor and Robert David Lion Gardiner Chair in American History, for his leadership as interim chair last year.
I look forward to sharing a reflection on the current state and future direction of the Department in our spring newsletter. In the meantime, we're pleased to provide an update on the many accomplishments and events over the past semester.
As always, we appreciate your support, and wish you and yours health and good cheer, and a happy and peaceful new year.
All the best,
Sara Lipton
Professor and Chair
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| Welcome New Faculty |
| The Department is thrilled to welcome two new faculty hires this year! We have been hearing from many undergraduate students how much of a positive impact both professors are having in their classes, and are excited about all they will accomplish! |
| Meet Assistant Professor Susannah Glickman (PhD, Columbia University 2023), whose interests span computing, political economy, 20th century US and the World, and histories of science. Of note, Glickman was interviewed this semester for Physics World magazine on why so much money was spent on quantum computers before they even existed. |
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Meet Assistant Professor Tamara Fernando (PhD Cambridge University, 2022), whose interests focus on the Indian Ocean, the Persian/Arabian Gulf, Sri Lanka, histories of science, environment, and labor. |
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Faculty Publications
Christopher Sellers’ new book, Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis (University of Georgia Press) turns an environmental lens on Atlanta's ascent to a thriving capital of the Sunbelt over the 20th century.
 Emeritus Professor Brooke Larson’s latest book, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Duke University Press) maps the moral dilemmas and political stakes involved in the protracted struggle over Indian literacy and schooling in the Bolivian Andes. |
Paul Gootenberg co-authored with History alumna Magally Alegre Henderson '12, PhD, a collection of eight translated essays on the history of cocaine, Hecho en el Perú: Ensayos Históricos sobre la Cocaína, published by the academic press of La Universidad Católica in Peru. Magally is Director of Archives of the Instituto Riva Aguero in Lima. 
Recent articles by faculty include Eric Zolov’s “Marking the Contours of a Mexican ‘New Left’ in the 1960s: Mexico and the Southern Cone in Comparative Perspective” in Mexican Studies; and Zolov and Gootenberg’s interview with John Coatsworth, noted Latin American historian and former president of the American Historical Association, for "From Red Professor to Provost" in The Americas.
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| Undergraduate Students |
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The Department proudly welcomed six new Phi Alpha Theta inductees into the National Honor Society this fall. We're pleased to welcome undergraduates
Kyle DeVinney, Michael Lehner, Dimitra Miloulis, Eric Pentecoste, Evan Stafilias, and Richard Zambrano!
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| History Club |
The History Club has been especially active, hosting historical game sessions, screening movies, organizing a group trip to the Museum of Modern Art, and
co-organizing with Phi Alpha Theta the semi-annual book sale (with plenty of donations from recently retired faculty!).
Meanwhile, the student-run Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, whose editorial team are members of the History Club, proudly published four new articles. The journal’s Fall issue is now in production and will be distributed at a launch at the start of Spring semester. |
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Graduate Students
- PhD candidate Karl Nycklemoe recently published a peer-reviewed article in The Middle West Review, "Sensing Death and Beauty: Mary Henderson Eastman's Dahcotah, the Myth of Indian Vanishment, and the Environment on the Upper Mississippi River," in which he analyzes Henderson's ethnography to identify how sensory elements of literature were a tool of settler-colonialism.
- Willie Mack successfully defended his dissertation, “Triple Minority: Haitian Immigrants, Policing, Race and Identity in New York City and Haiti During the Cold War”(Robert Chase, advisor), and holds a tenure-track position at the University of Missouri.
- Jocelyn Zimmerman successfully defended her dissertation, "George Bogle’s 'Fairy Dreams:' Polygamy, Enlightenment, and the East India Company ‘Discovery’ Mission to Tibet, 1770-1777" (Kathleen Wilson, advisor).
- PhD candidate George Osei won an Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship for his dissertation, “Harm of Heal?: A History of Witch Camps and Humanitarianism in Ghana, 1927-2020" (Shobana Shankar, advisor).
- PhD candidate Gabe Tennen was featured on the Museum of the City of New York's website with his take on Duke Ellington's New York Rise.
- PhD candidate Jacques Coste Cacho recently published an essay in Mexico’s foremost journal of public opinion, Nexos, “Repensar la transición para entender la transformación,” in which he outlines divergent interpretations of Mexico’s “democratic transition.”
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| Faculty Awards |
| Congratulations to alumna Tara Rider '14, PhD, a senior lecturer in the School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook, who received a 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award. |
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Lori Flores, recently named a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for 2023-26. |
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Alumni News
- Matías Hermosilla '22, PhD, recorded an album in Chile, Amigos de Conveniencia, featuring his original music and on which he accompanies the highly acclaimed Chilean singer, Rosario Alfonso.
- Erica Mukherjee '19, PhD, co-founded Elemental Tours, a public history project on the material environment of Manchester that combines in-person walking tours with an online community.
- Rich Acritelli '00, '03 was featured in Stony Brook Matters for his work honoring veterans at Rocky Point museum.
- Matthew Ford '23, PhD, published an article in Jacobin on the mounting tensions between faculty and administration in the California State system, "Management at California State University is Living Large While Faculty Struggle.”
- Nichole Prescott '15, PhD, gave a university-wide lecture as part of the College of Arts and Sciences Sir Run Run Shaw Lecture Series, "More Than an Asterisk: Invisibility, Pretendians, and Reclaiming Indigenous Narratives."
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| Programming |
- Recent events this past semester included the panel, "Fifty Years After the Coups: New Directions in Scholarship on Chile & Uruguay," which featured PhD students in History, José Manuel Baeza-Zúñiga and Nicolás Barrientos. The event was hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) and moderated by Eric Zolov.
- A book presentation by Frank Gerits (Utrecht University), "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" drew support from the Department of Africana Studies, the Institute for Globalization Studies, and the Humanities Institute.
- In late October, we were co-sponsors of a Sir Run Run Shaw Series Lecture, “Academic Freedom at Risk: New College of Florida'' featuring panelists Emily Fairchild of Harvard University, Sonia Labrador Rodriguez and Amy Reid of New College of Florida, and Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandex, founder and artistic director of Mosaic Movements. The lecture was very well attended by the campus community.
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