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Department of History

Empowering Students to Study the Past and Shape the Future

We Will Never Forget

A Tour and StoryMap in Commemoration of September 11 at Stony Brook University

Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

Making History Public

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Jediael Peterson and Nico Allen named 2026 Melon/ACLS Fellowships

Congratulations to PhD Candidates Jediael Peterson and Nico Allen who received the prestigious and competitive fellowships to support their dissertation research.

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Professor Zolov named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow

Professor Eric Zolov was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his new project "The Bossa Nova Moment: Harmonizing Pan-Americanism in the Era of the Cuba Revolution." He also recently received a Wayne Shirley Fellowship from the Society of American Music to research the personal papers of Brazilian-American jazz and bossa music artist, Laurindo Almeida, as part of the project.

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Professor Chambers awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant

Professor Mark Chambers along with Professor Chris Sellers and their research team were awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to complete their final National Science Foundation research outputs in investigating cumulative exposures in environmental justice research and environmental health science.

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Professor Lipton elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge University

Professor Sara Lipton was elected to a Visiting Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge, for the 2027 Lent and Easter Terms.

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PhD Candidates Awarded 2026 Edward Guiliano Global Fellowships

Congratulations to PhD Candidates Debjani Chakrabarty and Nico Allen on receiving the Guiliano Fellowships for their fantastic projects: Debjani Chakrabarty,"Vagrant Empire, Visual Labor: A Legal and Social History of the Mobile Poor in South Asia, 1840-1950," and Nicolas Allen,"The Master’s Voice: A Transnational History of Brazilian Populism  (1920-1950)."

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Professor Kabdylkhak featured in the Russian‑language Forbes‑KZ April issue

Professor Nurlan Kabdylkhak is featured in the article: "Why a Historian from Kazakhstan Introduces American Students to the History of the USSR and Central Asia." The article delves into his personal history and decision to become a Historian, as well as his forthcoming book on Muslim religious institutions in Kazakhstan.

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