In The Spotlight
Sergio Pinto-Handler (PhD '18)
Has accepted a one-year visiting assitant position at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. His dissertation, entitled "The Last Emancipation: Rio de Janeiro and the History of Atlantic Slavery & Abolition, 1879-1900," examines the transnational history of abolition in Brazil.
Jocelyn Zimmerman (PhD Candidate)
Won a Pre-Dissertation Research grant from the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) for her project about polygamy and the British empire.
Spencer Austin (PhD Candidate)
Has been awarded a Chateaubriand fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences, which will allow him to work 4 months in France next year on his dissertation about French-speaking coal-miners in PA.
Matías Hermosilla (PhD Candidate)
Has published a peer reviewed article entitled "La Palmada en la Frente (1970): Political Cartoons, the Global Sixties, and Popular Culture in Chile" in Studies of Latin American Popular Culture (May 2020). Link found here.
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News and Announcements
Prof.
Josh Teplitsky's book,
Prince of the Press, has just been awarded the Salo Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies.
New Issue of
Long Island History Journal
is out
here.
Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Asia
A talk by
Assoc. Prof. Shobana Shankar, Department of History,
Thursday, June 18,
2:00 pm EDT,
Register.
History Graduate Student Association Statement on the Current Protests
In light of recent events, the History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) commits
its support to the Black Lives Matter Movement. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna
Taylor, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other black people by police
and white vigilantes in the United States are intolerable hate crimes that the HGSA
refuses to condone or excuse. PDF found
here.
The History Department's Statement can be found here.
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In The Media
PhD candidate Ximena Lopez Carillo was interviewed for the Stony Brook University News on her academic journey entitled "Diver Scholar Immerses Herself in History of Minorities and Mental Health." Find the full article here.
Professor Eric Zolov particpated in a roundtable entitled, "To Print is to Resist: Urgent Graphic Resistance in the United States and Latin America," a discussion on graphic resistance practices in the Chilean Social Uprising and the Black Lives Matter movement." Link found here.
Professor Paul Zimansky appeared in the UK newspaper Express, commenting on archaeology expeditions in the Middle East, in search of the Ark. Find the article here.
Professor Robert Chase discusses his book, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America (2019) on the NPR station, WSHU (91.1), "The Full Story," here.
Professor
Eric Beverley was quoted in an
article
that appeared in
the
on-line newspaper,
The
Hindu
, "How Hyderabad, Wracked by
the
Plague, Transformed itself into a Modern City 100 Years Ago.
Gabriel S. Tennen has published an essay in the Gotham Center for New York City History (the Gothamist). This essay, "Swept from the Streets Mario Procaccino and the Rise of Law-and-Order Politics in New York City," takes up the 1969 political campaign of Procaccino for mayor as a way to situate the embrace of "law and order" politics. Article here.
Rob Chase co-authored a piece with grad student Yalile Suriel in the African American Intellectual Historical Society's (AAIHS) essay blog "Black Perspectives." It offers a historical perspective on divestment from campus policing, with a particular focus on SUNY campuses. Read here.
In the Media
