In The Spotlight
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.
Professors Chris Sellers and Mark Chambers have won a two-year Faculty Fellow Teaching Award from the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). They will be using the award to design a teaching website and "open syllabus" for a new course that draws upon research materials from a previous NSF grant, tentatively entitled "History and Practice of Environmental and Climate Justice."
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Paul Gootenberg, whose recently published edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History (Oxford, 2022) has been selected as one of the Best Historical Materials published in 2022 and 2023 by the American Library Association.
News and Announcements
GRADUATION INFORMATION
Please click on the image below for information on Stony Brook University's Main Commencement Ceremony.
This Wednesday!
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In The Media
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.