In The Spotlight
Edward Guiliano '78 PhD Global Fellowship Programprovides students with the opportunity to broaden their perspectives by engaging with the world beyond Stony Brook University and their local communities. 2025 Recipients pictured; Huzaifa Dokaji, History Graduate Recipient & Chloe Maloy, History Undergraduate Recipient
Debjani Chakrabarty (PhD student in South Asian history) has been awarded the Adrienne Arsht Internship in the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Summer of 2025. As part of her internship, she is going to help prepare an exhibition on 19th-century religious chromo-lithographs from the Bengal Presidency. She is also hoping to use this experience to incorporate and analyze visual sources in her own dissertation.
A huge congratulations to Peter Joyce for being awarded the Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence, the highest-level of award offered in the SUNY system! Peter was a History/Political Science double major in the Honors College, and is now pursuing a Masters in Public Policy at Stony Brook. He has held leadership positions with College Democrats and the Model UN, Environmental Club and Debate Clubs, while also working in the Student Government. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Professor Lori Flores, whose book Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 has won the International Labor History Association's Book-of-the-Year Award for the best book of working-class history for 2024. In the words of the ILHA, "Flores has written a creatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and broadly accessible study...[It] greatly enriches our understanding of the contemporary moment of danger for immigrant workers."
News and Announcements
Congratulations to one of PhD Alumni, Dr. Jocelyn Zimmerman on her first journal article published with the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on Project Muse. — It is titled "'Towards the advancement of medical knowledge': Tibetan Eye Surgery and Eighteenth-Century Colonial Knowledge Production" and is available with open access in perpetuity here.
Congratulations to our newly minted PhD candidates — we're looking forward to some
exciting dissertations in the next few years! R to L: Deborah Boudreau, Francisco
Rodríguez, Nicolas Allen, Nathan Greenhaw, Jediael Peterson, Debjani Chakrabarti,
Christina Hurtado-Pierson, Sarah Ahmedani, Caitin Leale, and Prof. Eric Zolov.
In The Media
SUNY Distinguished and Toll Professor Paul Gootenberg was recently interviewed by Professor Isaac Campos for his podcast, History on Drugs, Episode 10: "The History of Cocaine, a Long Career, and Some Great Stories with Paul Gootenberg."
Richard Tomczak, director of faculty engagement in the Division of Undergraduate Education and a research assistant professor in the History Department, participated in a conference commemorating the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. The event, entitled “1775: A Society on the Brink of War & Revolution,” was a collaboration between the David Center for the American Revolution, American Philosophical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society and Concord Museum. CSPAN and the Concord Museum broadcast the presentations live on television and YouTube.
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Americas Quarterly on President Claudia Sheinbaum's anti-cartel strategies in Mexico.
Associate Professor Robert Chase was featured in an interview and Q & A on "The Past and Present of Prison Labor" in Bolts Magazine, a magazine dedicated to "the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the ground up."
