Conferences (2008-09)
Mark your calendars for two major conference being sponsored by the History Department in 2008-2009. I. “Cosmopolis 18th Century in the Age of Sail” Stony Brook Manhattan October 23 and October 24,...
View ArticleConference: “Dangerous Trade”
Please feel free to visit the website for the conference I recently convened at Stony Brook, along with University of Exeter’s Joseph Melling, December 13-15, 2008, on “Dangerous Trade: Histories of...
View ArticleStony Brook Initiative in the Historical Social Sciences
Please click here for this fall’s schedule of papers and speakers in this initiative. The series is a collaborative effort of the History and Sociology Departments at Stony Brook.
View Article“Climates” Intiative–Carbon Footprint of Port Jefferson, NY
Check out the following coverage of a joint effort by Stony Brook faculty and leaders and residents of the small suburban town of Port Jefferson, NY, to “Green Port Jefferson.” Page 12 details an...
View ArticleHIS 554: Law, Crime and the State (Spring 09)
This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states’ techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating...
View ArticleConference: “The Worlds of Lion Gardiner”
The State University of New York at Stony Brook, in cooperation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will hold a conference in Stony Brook on March 20-21, 2009, on “The Worlds of Lion...
View ArticleHIS 553-World Commodities and Historical Political Economy
This theme seminar, intended for aspiring Ph.D. students from any regional concentration, uses the burgeoning field of commodity history and the terrain of Latin American and global history to explore...
View ArticleHistory 532 — Gender, Religion and Modernity
This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History. It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program. All others, including MAT students,...
View ArticleHIS 653 — Transnationalizing History/Historicizing the Global
By now, it has become widely accepted that History (with a capital H) was deeply implicated in naturalizing the territorially delimited nation-state as one of the fundamental categories of historical...
View ArticleHistory 534 — Race and Nation-Making in the Americas
This course will examine the formation of racial, ethnic and national identities in different American contexts in the modern era. We will begin with broad synthetic approaches to the history of racial...
View ArticleHIS 542-Modern Latin American History (Graduate Field Seminar)
This Field Seminar introduces some major debates and literatures about Latin American history since 1820. It is designed for MA-level education students as well as MA students who plan to go on to a...
View ArticleFall 2009 Schedule: Initiative for Historical Social Sciences
September 30 Empire and Toleration: Some Comparative Thoughts Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, Columbia University October 28 Law, Crime and Sovereignty on the Hyderabad-Bombay Frontier Eric...
View ArticleHistory 532: Theme Seminar on Gender, Religion and Modernity
This is one of the theme seminars in the Doctoral program of the Department of History. It is open to all doctoral students and MA students in the History program. All others, including MAT students,...
View ArticleHistory 532–History/Culture of Consumerism
This course will look at the history of “modern” consumption patterns with particular emphasis on gender identities. We will look at changing conceptions of “producers” (traditionally represented as...
View ArticleHistory of Long Island Superfund Sites
As a research project for my history of industrial hazards class (History 414), students created wikis on the history of some of Long Island’s hazardous waste sites, regulated under the EPA’s Superfund...
View ArticleSpring Schedule, Intiative for Historical Social Sciences
Spring 2010 Calendar Stony Brook Faculty Workshop Benedict Robinson (Thursday February 11, 12:50-2:10) (Stony Brook University Department of English) “DISGUST, C. 1610, FARINGDON WARD WITHOUT.” New...
View ArticleAward News
We are very proud to announce that Nancy Tomes, history of medicine, women and gender studies and US cultural history, is the winner of the 2011 Arthur J. Viseltear Award, presented by the American...
View ArticleDEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM SERIES (Fall 2011)
Colloquium Series held during Campus Lifetime (12:50-2:10 pm) in Room N318 Wednesday, September 21, 2011: Marisa Balsamo, Rational Recreation in the Spectacle of Victorian London. Wednesday, October...
View ArticleGraduate Core Seminar Recommended Readings, Part 2
Nation, Popular Politics, Culture Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Guha, Ranajit. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Durham,...
View ArticleTalk by Andrew Hurley, Monday, Oct. 31, 11:45-1 pm
A Continuing Series on Environmental Studies and History Presents: A talk by Professor Andrew Hurley University of Missouri, St. Louis Interpreting History in 3D:Applications of the Virtual City in...
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