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• Professor Susannah Glickman has been awarded a prestigious Membership for the 2026–27 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study. This highly selective fellowship supports leading scholars in pursuing independent research at one of the world’s foremost centers for theoretical inquiry. Her selection recognizes the significance and promise of her work within her field.
• Professor Glickman has also been invited to serve as a part-time Scholar-in-[Virtual] Residence at A.I. think tank. In this role, she will contribute her expertise to interdisciplinary conversations and research initiatives, engaging with a broader community of scholars working at the forefront of critical inquiry. 
• History PhD Candidate, José Baeza-Zúñiga, was accepted from a highly competitive pool to participate in the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop at Harvard University in May.  This fully-funded workshop is hosted by the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and will provide an intellectual space for discussing a chapter from his dissertation in progress, "A Far-Reaching Diaspora: The Routes of Blackness Across Twentieth Century Chile, 1960-1990." 

• Congratulations to Professor Shobana Shankar, who was recently elected to the Board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, the premier international scholarly organization for researchers, educators, practitioners, and those seeking further understanding of Africa and the African diaspora. ASWAD has strong representation from the humanities and social sciences and increasing engagement with STEM disciplines, medicine, public health, information science, and museum studies. Learn more about ASWAD.
• Congratulations to Professors Mohammed Ballan, Nurlan Kabdylkha, Eric Zolov on each being awarded a FAHSS grant.
• History major Sheila Argueta led an exceptional discussion on Colonial American material culture and the representation of women's bodies at the Long Island Museum Carriage Hall. 120 people attended the event and participated in a lively Q&A session following the talk and a documentary. Congratulations, and thank you to all who participated!
• Megan Knighton (PhD Student) has recently spearheaded an effort with the Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Fortune Society, a non-profit that supports the formerly incarcerated, to make available a series of oral histories she conducted with New York City criminal justice advocates. This involved support for the creation of a finding aid for The Fortune Society's manuscript collection and an expansion of the Sealy Library's digital collections. Knighton received the Barbara Swartz Endowed Research, Travel, and Professional Development Award from the History Department to preserve and present her oral history research, which was then featured at the 2025 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
• Professor Emerita Brooke Larson was recently recognized for her book, The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2024). The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), which is the leading organization for U.S.-based Latin American Historians, just announced that Brooke was a co-winner of the most prestigious Bolton-Johnson Prize, which will be conferred at the AHA Conference in Chicago in early 2026.
• Please welcome our newest faculty to the History Department, Nurlan Kabdylkhak and Riga Shakya!
• Congratulations to George Osei and Donal Thomas for being named by the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) as IDEA Grads! They will receive specialized training from CAS and support for their amazing accomplishments!
• Congratulations to our very own Tamara Fernando, named 2025 ACLS Fellow!
• Congratulations to Huzaifa Dokaji (PhD candidate in African history) for being recognized as a "special educator who went above and beyond to encourage, inspire and students," according to a citation he has received from Stony Brook University's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).
• Associate Professor Robert Chase was recently interviewed for Barcelona's El Punt Avui on the history of Alcatraz island prison. In "Alcatraz: Torna la Disputa" Chase discusses why Trump's declaration about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison is an inefficient and costly proposal, and what it means for this culturally, symbolically, and historically important site to be mobilized as a symbol of "law and order" America under Trump. 
• Edward Guiliano '78 PhD Global Fellowship Program provides 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."
• Andrés Acosta de la Cruz (PhD student in Latin American/US history) was accepted into the prestigious Dominican Studies Institute's summer research internship at City College in New York.  He will use the opportunity to continue his research on Puerto Rican-Dominican relations.
• Congratulations to PhD students Donal Thomas, recipient of the Graduate School's prestigious Alumni Association's Dean's Choice Award for Leadership, and Huzaifa Dokaji, who has been awarded the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship in support of his thesis, "The Making of a Muslim Minority: Dissent, Gender, and Transnationalism in Nigeria's Emerging Shi'a Community, 1979–2015."  The fellowship will support three weeks of archival research at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.
• Congratulations to Debjani Chakrabarty (PhD student, South Asian history) who has won a dissertation planning grant from  the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies to carry out her project, “Vagrant Empire: Crime, Labor and Mobility in Colonial South Asia, 1830-1940.”
• Professor Shobana Shankar recently published an essay, "The Indian Question in Afrocentric Politics," in a special issue of Public Culture commemorating the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. 
• Professor Lori Flores' new book, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19, is hot off the press. Awaiting Their Feast traces how our dual appetite for Latinx food and Latinx food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic, using the US Northeast as an unexpected microcosm of this national history. 
• Congratulations to Professor Mohamad Ballan, who has been awarded the "Best Article in Critical Race Studies" Prize by the Medieval Academy of America for his recent article in the MAA flagship journal: "Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada", Speculum 98, no. 2 (2023): 447-495.
• Congratulations to history majors Beth Gatto and Jake Cavalli, who participated on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association this past January.  The panel, "What Can You Do with Your Undergraduate Research? Examples from Undergraduate History Journals and Community Engagement Projects" offered a chance for Beth and Jake to showcase the student-run publication, Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal.
• Jocelyn Zimmerman, who earned her PhD in December 2023 and is an historian of European empires, has landed a tenure-track job in Early Modern European History at Butler University as well as fellowships with the Royal Historical Society and Leibniz Institute of European History.
• José Baez-Zúñiga (PhD candidate in Latin American History) will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Organization of American Historians conference in Chicago in April.  His paper, "Shaping Blackness at the Diaspora's Peripheries: Black Hemispheric Migration in Chile, 1950-1989," which draws upon his dissertation, is part of the panel "The (Latin) American Dream: African American Immigration to Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
• On Friday, January 31st, Professor Shobana Shankar is giving a keynote for the Black Diversities seminar organized by South Carolina State University and the University of West Indies.  This virtual seminar highlights the diversity within the Black experience with a focus on cultural and political solidarities, and social histories. 
• Rachel Otheguy’s (PhD ’16) first book, Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba is being published in January of 2025 by the University of Florida Press. In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba.
• Juan Pablo Artinian (PhD, 2013) was awarded a diploma by the City of Buenos Aires, for this book Genocidio y Resistencia: Destrucción de los armenios por el Imperio Otomano y la búsqueda de la justicia, declaring the book of interest for the city's culture and social communication. 
• Nicolas Allen, PhD candidate in Latin American History, has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for his project, “The Master’s Voice: The US Recording Industry in Vargas-Era Brazil (1930-1950)."  He will use this funding to carry out research in Brazil next summer.
• Congratulations to Ricky Tomczak (PhD '21) for the publication of his first book, available February 2025. Ricky has also been selected to speak at the250th Anniversary of Lexington and Concord! The event is hosted by the American Philosophical Society, David Center of the American Revolution, Concord Museum, and Massachusetts Historical Society.
• Distinguished Professor, Nancy Tomes, and 2nd-year PhD student, Shiqi Wang, were both cited in a fascinating Slate article on the history of personal care product preferences in the US, specifically the declining use of bar soap.
• Assistant Professor Glickman was recently interviewed by Novembermag.com about defense tech, "a field which not only reflects but produces culture—its aesthetics, affects, and ideologies..."
• Dr. Kathleen Wilson recently published a contribution in Small Axe, entitled "Lucky Valley in the World: Racial Capitalism and the Eighteenth-century British Empire."  The article looks at  Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism and explores how  the legacy of the empire from the eighteenth century consciously and unconsciously shapes modern day society.
• Dr. Susannah Glickman was recently interviewed by The New York Review to cover how the second Trump administration is currently managing US industrial policy with on-going global trade wars and deals with private equity firms.
• Distinguished Professor Chris Sellers has contributed to and published public-facing articles in a series of various outlets: Undark, Nature, and the Enivronmental Data & Governance Initiative. Dr. Sellers and his team are fighting to oversee and preserve governmental data related to the environment.
• Associate Professor Robert Chase was recently interviewed by the Courier-Journal of Kentucky for a two-part investigative story on corrupt sheriffs who are unable to be removed from office due to their political power. Please see the following links for more:

"Beholden to no one"
"Kentuck Gov. Andy Beshear has the power to remove convicted sheriffs. Why hasn't he?"
"Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Murder."

• Dr. Susannah Glickman recently wrote an  important long-form piece on the defense tech industry published in the New York Review of Books. Professor Sara Lipton describes it as "sobering but essential reading, and public-facing history at its best." 
• Distinguished Professor Nancy Tomes was recently cited in an NPR article titled 'Ancient Miasma Theory May Help Explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Moves.' A prominent scholar in the history of medicine, Dr. Tomes is widely recognized for her expertise on germ theory and the complex relationship between scientific authority and public perceptions of health, the body, and disease.
• Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD student in Latin American History) recently published an article in the British media platform, Mexico Brief, "Mexico’s judiciary now serves many masters."
• A letter by Eric Zolov, was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, Opinion: How Teachers Can Defeat AI.
• 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."
• Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Mexico Brief about the impact President Trump's foreign policy has had on Mexican policymakers.
• Professor Nancy Tomes is participating in a public conversation on "Health Care in Historical Perspective," as part of a larger discussion on US health care under the Trump administration, Thursday Jan. 23  6pm-7:30, hosted by Villanova's LaPage Center for History in the Public Interest.  Registration here.
• Assistant Professor Susannah Glickman was recently featured in a discussion on "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work" for the CUNY-sponsored television program, City Works.
• Aishani Gupta (PhD 2023) recently published an article, "The Sacred and the Spectacular: How Bengal's Durga Puja Pandals Morph into Temporary Art Galleries" in Garland Magazine.
• Christopher Pascale (PhD in US History) gave a lecture on "Kansas' Cursed Senate Seat" on January 8th for the Kansas Historical Society.
• Professor Robert Chase was recently interviewed on Gulf State NPR in New Orleans on a series of civil rights lawsuits filed by Alabama and Louisiana prisoners. The litigation argues that incarcerated people are laboring as "slaves" and that convict leasing, outlawed in Alabama in 1928, nevertheless continues.
• Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Americas Quarterly examining the future prospects of Mexico's newly elected, first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, "Claudia Sheinbaum Stays on AMLO's Course."
• Aishani Gupta (PhD, 2023) co-authored a recent article on her work in Museum Collections Documentation & Curatorial Planning  at the home of the preeminent scientist and polymath, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, and his wife Lady Abala Bose, a champion of women's education in colonial Bengal. The article has been published by The Heritage Lab.
• Congratulations to Ilya Kudryashov for their recent publication in the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, “An Intellectual History of Community-Based Care and Policing From 1990-2005: Psychotic and Substance Use Disorders”.  Kudryashov discusses the deinstitutionalization movement in the United States and the long-term ramifications of the movement’s failure.
• Jacques Coste Cacho, PhD candidate in Latin American History, was recently quoted in a New York Times article, "Mexican Military Fatally Shoots Six Migrants."  Jacques' research focuses on civil society and transitions to democracy during the 1970s-80s in Mexico.
• Jacques Coste Cacho (PhD candidate in Latin American History) recently published an blog essay in the prestigious Mexican newsmagazine, Nexos, reflecting on the role of "loyal" versus "independent" intellectuals in the context of the shift in presidential power in Mexico, "Los intelectuales y la hegemonia."
• Dr. Robert Chase discussed his research recently, first a book panel discussing "Books Behind Bars" as part of the Organization of American Historians annual conference and then a radio program with Professor Gerald Horne.

CSPAN's American History TV panel "Books Behind Bars" 

• Discussion of Dr. Chase's book, We Are Not Slaves, on the radio program "Freedom Now," which aired on KPFT LA radio on June 22nd.
• Yalile Suriel (PhD, 2021) recently published an article that provides historical context to the contemporary police interventions on college campuses for Inside Education, "Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes of the 1960s?"
• The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal has published its final article of the year, "The Revolutionary for the People: The Assassination of Fred Hampton," by Kyle DeVinney.  DeVinney discusses how Fred Hampton’s assassination was a result of government corruption and prejudice, drawing on a variety of sources ranging from FBI memos, newspaper articles, and interviews to highlight the government’s involvement in Hampton’s death.
• Stephanie Kelton, who teaches a course on the "Ideologies of Capitalism" in the History Department, will be on the Daily Show to promote the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) documentary, Finding the Money! Official US/Canadian release will be May 3 in NYC and will run in the city until May 9, locations on the website. The Daily Show is on Comedy Central at 11:00 pm EST and the latest episodes can be found here.
• 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.
• Jacques Coste Cacho (PhD candidate) recently published a brief essay in Spanish that draws on work he did for Professor Gootenberg's graduate seminar on Commodities, "¡Salud! ¡Y a Seguir Las Fiestas!" in the online Mexican magazine, Expansion/Política.
• Professor Eric Zolov was recently interviewed for the podcast, “Mexico’s War on Rock with Cristian Salazar” which focused on the history of rock music in Mexico during the 1960s-70s, and the ways in which rock faced attacks by the government and left-wing intelligentsia.
• Congratulations to Karl Nycklemoe (PhD candidate) for his recent peer-reviewed publication 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."  By claiming Indigenous peoples were discordant and landscapes sublime, Karl shows how Henderson's work portrayed the environment as 'wild' and ready for settlement, despite the centuries of Indigenous ownership and stewardship of the region.
• Congratulations to Zornitsa Peeva on the publication of her article “Protection, Devotion, and Destruction: The Symbolism of Eyes in Ancient Mesopotamian Art” in the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal.  Zornitsa draws upon ancient Mesopotamian literature, artifacts, and art to emphasize the eye’s powerful role in Mesopotamian society and cosmology.
• The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal is pleased to announce the publication by undergraduate David DeFilippis, "The Use of Child Organizations to Create Totalitarian States in the Interwar Period" in the current issue of the journal.  David's research analyzes how youth organizations were used to create the totalitarian states of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Soviet Union during the Interwar period.
• Congratulations to Sebastian Rosa for his article, "The Rising Blade that Pierces the Setting Sun: The Fall of Japan's Imperial Aristocracy and the Rise of the Samurai," recently published in The Stonybrook Undergraduate History Journal in which he examines the factors that caused the fall of the Japanese Imperial Court's political authority and the rise of the samurai in the twelfth century. 
• Congratulations to undergraduate Roy Harel for his recent publication in the Stonybrook Undergraduate History Journal, "Constellations of Identifies: Synagogue Mosaics and their Implications," in which he analyzes how synagogue zodiac mosaics, John Chrysostom's polemical sermons, and late antique Near Eastern material culture reveal the fluidity of cultural association and identity of the Bet Alpha Jewish community as well as the extent of group differentiation in the Near East.
• PhD Candidate, Will Mack, featured on KOMU televised news discussing Black history and Florida's  curriculum changes.
• Prof. Chris Sellers recently published a piece in Salon, "Atlanta, Crucible of Democracy: How the City's Tortured History Got Us Here," that draws upon his recent monograph, Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis (University of Georgia Press)
• Matthew Ford (PhD, '23) has recently written an article for 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.
• Assistant professor Sussanah Glickman was interviewed  for Physics World magazine on why so much money was spent on quantum computers before they even existed.
• Professor Shobana Shankar was recently interviewed for the "Writing Africa" project, where she spoke about her recent book An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race.
• On Wednesday February 15 Professor Shirley Lim will be conducting  a lunchtime Anna May Wong book reading group and an evening conversation with NPR's Eric Deggans at the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Culture at Bucknell University. Find the link to both events here.
• Prof. Shobana Shankar recently published a co-authored article, "Peace and Economy in Uganda: 50 Years after Idi Admin," for the Wilson Center's Africa: Year in Review 2022 publication.
• Professor Shirley Lim was recently featured on BBC 4 Radio Show's podcast Screenshot . The episode aired January 20th, 2023 and offers a refreshing perspective on Hollywood's pre-code Babylon. Check out the podcast here.
• Distinguished Professor Paul Gootenberg reflects on the history of drugs in a conversation with Ethan Nadelmann on the podcast Psychoactive.
• Latin American PhD students, José Miguel Munive Vargas and Nicolas Allen, provide an astute political and historical analysis of the current situation in Peru for the podcast, Africa is a Country.
• Brenda Elsey,  PhD 2007 who currently teaches at Hofstra University, recently published an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled, "Lionel Messi is the Right Man for Argentina's Post-Macho Movement." The article discusses Messi's recent FIFA evolution and how that reflects Argentinian culture and politics.
• PhD Candidate Gabe Tennen recently published a  piece in the New York Daily News online and print edition titled "Lessons from the Fires Last Time: Jews and Blacks in NYC." The article analyzes the complicated relationship between Black and Jewish people through the prism of the 1968 Oceanhill-Brownsville teacher's strike. 
• Prof. Eric Zolov and his wife, Terri Gordon-Zolov (The New School), were recently interviewed about the making of their book, The Walls of Santiago, and their views on the current situation in Chile, "Los muros en Chile van a hablar por mucho tiempo" for the Chilean online magazine, Kmcero.
• PhD Candidate, Ken Wohl recently wrote an op/ed blog in the Washington Post.  It takes up the election in Michigan and a statewide Democratic sweep in  offices through the lens of the state's long history as a champion of the labor movement.   
• Professor Nancy Tomes  recently published an article in the Washington Post that  discusses the repercussions of the 1918 Ifluenza.
• Professor Sara Lipton, currently at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, recently published a review essay, "The Jewish Authenticity Trap" in The New York Review of Books.
• Professor Nancy Tomes is collaborating with the World Health Organization to produce two reports that represent one of the first such collaborations between Historians and the organization.  “What are the historical roots of the COVID-19 infodemic? Lessons from the past. Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report 77” by Nancy Tomes and Manon Parry examines the historical roots of the COVID-19 infodemic to set out lessons learned from past disease outbreaks. See the LINK to pre-register for the webinar on November 8th.
• Associate Professor Robert Chase was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post, "Slavery is Still Allowed in Prisons; Now it's on the Ballot in 5 States" on removing the "slavery clause" from state constitutions this election cycle.
• Professor Shirley Lim was recently quoted on NPR and in the New York Times for an article on the pending release of a new commemorative quarter that will feature the Asian-American actress, Anna Mae Wong. Lim's coverage of Anna May Wong includes appearances on CBS, CNBC, and Inside Edition. Lim's most recent book is a historical biography of Wong, Anna Mae Wong: Performing the Modern (Temple University Press, 2019). 
• The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal is pleased to announce the publication of its third article of the semester, "Chocolate Pudding and Space Aliens: How the Heaven's Gate Cult Propagated" by Michael Corcoran, a third-year history major and music minor in the BA/MAT Social Studies Teacher Preparation Program.  Michael's article analyzes two recruitment tapes recorded by Heaven's Gate in order to examine the cult's methods and beliefs, while explaining how people fell victim to the cult's brainwashing. 
• The Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal is pleased to announce the publication of a new article by Joshua Berkowitz, "'We Don't Want Your Rations, We Want This Dance': Native American Dance and the Battleground for Native Identity."   Joshua is completing his BA in History and will be pursuing his Masters in Teaching at Stony Brook starting in the spring.  He is Secretary of the History Club and for the past two years has served as senior editor of the journal.
• Professor Eric Zolov and his wife, Terri Gordon-Zolov (The New School), recently published an interview titled,  "Turning Art into a Political Weapon," by the online journal, Public Seminar, where they discuss their book The Walls of Santiago and the current situation in Chile.
• Professor Shobana Shankar recently sat for an interview with Africa is a Country titled, "Africa Holds up a Mirror to India." The interview discusses Professor Shankar's recently published book An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race (2021) and the implications on current racial tensions. To read the full piece, click HERE.
• Professor Shirley Lim recently worked with the History Channel to create the podcast "Anna May Wong Steps into the Spotlight." Access it here.
• Stony Brook President and History Department faculty member, Dr. Maurie McInnis, filmed an episode of C-SPAN's Lectures in History series, "The Shadow of Slavery in American Public Life."  She presented her lecture to students enrolled in Professor April Masten’s HIS327 class, “The Arts as History,”  which looks at how works of art are also historical documents.  Professor Masten introduced President McInnis by discussing her field of academic study, which looks at the role that historical scholarship can play in public conversations about race and focuses on the relationship between art and politics in early America, with a focus on slavery.
• Prof. Paul Gootenberg was recently featured in the podcast hosted by Dr. Richard Miller, Mind, Body, Health & Politics where they discussed the topic, "Do You Know the History of Cocaine?"
• Monique Watson (BA, '14), who returned to the History Department last Spring to give an inspiring talk to our undergraduates, was recently featured in Stony Brook Matters in a wide-ranging conversation about her experiences as an undergraduate and beyond.
• Adrián Marquez (PhD candidate) recently published a short essay, "Claves para un anti-capitalismo del siglo XXI" in the independent Uruguayan newspaper, La Diaria.
• Professor Eric Zolov and his wife, Terri Gordon-Zolov, were interviewed by Chilean historian Camilo Trumper about their new book, The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile (Berghahn) in the latest issue of the literary magazine, Brooklyn Rail.
• "Professor Shirley Lim discussed the historical problem of whitewashing in film and Asian-American representation for Turner Classic Movies before the screening of The Good Earth (1937) which featured the Chinese-American actress, Anna May Wong.  Wong had lost the lead role portraying a Chinese woman to a white actress, Luise Rainer."
• PhD student  Willie Mack published a blog essay, "The Success of the Valley Road Community: A Hidden History of Nassau County's African American and Indigenous People" for Preservation Long Island.  Mack is working with Associate Professor Jennifer Anderson this semester as a ACLS Public Scholars Fellow.
• Professor Shobana Shankar recently did a podcast interview about her recent book, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race for the series, Afrofiles which features conversations with scholars of African Studies. Her book and research was also featured in a recent article in Stony Brook University News.
• Professor Shirley Lim recently published an article in The Conversation, "After Hollywood thwarted Anna May Wong, the actress took matter into her own hands" to coincide with International Women's Day.
• Professor Eric Zolov and his wife, Terri Gordon-Zolov, were interviewed by Chilean historian Camilo Trumper about their new book, The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile (Berghahn) in the latest issue of the literary magazine, Brooklyn Rail.
• Professors Nancy Tomes and Paul Kelton were recently quoted in the article, "Against Different Backdrops, Public Responses Differ in Two Pandemics," TBR Newsmedia.
• Professor Stephanie Kelton, who is teaching a class this semester in History ("Ideologies of Capitalism") is featured in a New York Times profile on Modern Monetary Theory, "Time For a Victory Lap*," Feb. 6, 2022.
• Associate Professor Lori Flores was recently interviewed by NPR in a discussion about the decline in membership of the United Farm Workers union, why it’s happened, and if things can change.
• The Wall Street Journal published a Letter to the Editor by Professor Eric Zolov in response to Mary Anastasia O’Grady opinion piece on the upcoming presidential election in Chile, "Chile's High-Stakes Election."
• Associate Professor Robert Chase recently led a conversation with  Jorge Antonio Renaud, a formerly incarcerated person who is now the Regional Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Southwest of LatinoJustice PRLDEF. The conversation took place at the Casa de Resistencia Bookstore in Austin, Texas for the public radio show  " People United: The Show in Solidarity with the People of the World," and includes powerful readings by Renaud of several poems.
• Assoc. Professor Lori Flores was quoted in an article from   The Guardian,   " 'It Dances in Your Mouth': Why Americans Are Eating More Cilantro than Ever"
• Professor Nancy Tomes was recently quoted in the article, " From Pandemic to Endemic: This is How We Might Get Back to Normal," published in  The Guardian.
• Professor Chris Sellers was quoted in  Newsday, " Suffolk Eyes Preserving Land in Environmental Justice Areas," November 28, 2021.  See here for PDF.
• Professor Sara Lipton participated in a panel of educators on October 26, 2021 to discuss the history of and ways to combat antisemitism during an event at the Great Neck North High School auditorium.  See the article here in  The Island Now.
• Assoc. Professor Eric Beverley contributed " Afterword: Who does the Deccan belong to?"  to a series that recently appeared in the South Indian digital news and opinion platform  The News Minute. The  feature section on the Deccan, was organized by a collective of younger scholars primarily based in India, and represents a larger attempt to generate public conversations about the political meanings of humanistic and social scientific scholarship on a key region of India.
• Assistant Professor Mohamad Ballan recently published a short essay, " Muslim Refugees in Medieval Malta (ca. 1463)? Mobility, Migration and the Muslim-Christian Frontier in the Mediterranean World " on the  Medieval Studies Research Blog.
• PhD candidate, Lance Boos, recently published a blog essay for  The Gotham Center for New York City History (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled, " James Rivington: Music Purveyor in Revolutionary New York."
• 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.
• 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.
• Will Mack has published in the Journal of Haitian Studies, titled "Transnational Carceral Regimes and Punitive Anticommunism: The Creation of the Totalitarian State in Haiti (1957-1986)."  Will is making an important intervention here to place carceral studies within a more transnational and global empire lens.
• Meet Madison Buddine, a junior history and psychology double major and member of the CAS Dean’s Student Leadership and Advisory Council! Read about Madison's experience in the History Department.