In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Will Mack (PhD, 2023) has been selected as the Carr Center Racial
Justice Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He will spend a year revising
his dissertation, "Triple Minority: Haitian Immigrants, Policing, Race and Identity
in New York City and Haiti During the Cold War," as a book manuscript.
Professor Shobana Shankar recently participated in a forum to discuss India’s evolving relationship with Africa, its implications for US Africa policy, and the continent’s development trajectory, hosted by the Foreign Policy ResearchInstitute.
Shayna Murphy (PhD student) received a fellowship from The Women's History Institute, which researches the lives of women previously ignored in the organization's research and programming. Her fellowship will allow her to study the theme of motherhood in New York throughout the long 19th century, with a focus on how race and class shape cultural perceptions of this role and how the expectations of motherhood differed depending on these variables.
News and Announcements
GRADUATION INFORMATION
Please click on the image below for information on Stony Brook University's Main Commencement Ceremony.
In The Media
Congratulations to undergraduate Jordan Yang for his recent publication in the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, “’His Terrible Tribunal’: Lay and Ecclesiastical Authority in the Death of Thomas Becket.” Yang discusses how Thomas Becket's assassination resulted from his struggle with King Henry II, one that centered around conflicting notions of royal and ecclesiastical authority in the twelfth century.
Undergraduate Beth Gatto published her article, “Translation of Arabic Literature Under Alfonso X: A Case Study of Christian-Muslim Relations in Castile, 1251-1335” in the latest issue of the student-run History journal. Here she analyzes how the translation of Kalila wa-Dimna under Alfonso X’s reign impacted Castilian literature and portrays a more accurate depiction of Muslim-Christian relations in medieval Spain.
Jacques Coste Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American History) recently published an editorial in the Mexican online newspaper, Expansión/Política, in which he argues that the greatest achievement of Mexican President Lópes Obrador has not been the elimination of inequality, as promised, but rather the elevation of the army to a position of unprecedented power and influence over all sectors of Mexican life.
The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal is proud to announce the publication of its latest article, “’Under the Cobblestone, the Beach’: The Counterculture’s Critique and Strategy of ‘Spectacles’” by undergraduate Yulia Pechhenkina. In this fascinating piece, Pechhenkina discusses how the late 1960’s counterculture movement strategically used "spectacles" as a means to challenge oppressive societal norms and how these spectacles in turn transformed society.
