Department of History

Fall 2008 Undergraduate Courses (opens PDF)

What is the application deadline? . Your application must be submitted and all supplemental material MUST arrive no later than January 15 for Fall admission. This deadline remains the same every year. The History Department does not offer Spring admissions.

How should I submit my application?

The application MUST be submitted online. Please go to this online application link, http://www.grad.sunysb.edu/prospective/applying/index.shtml. Under Additional Required Documents, there is an area to download recommendation forms (if your letters of recommendation are not done online) Please do not give us your password for the application.

There is a checklist on the last page of this FAQ with a summary of what must be submitted. Please double-check that list before sending anything to us.

The fewer envelopes you send us, the better. To that end, we suggest that you put the following items in one large envelope and mail to the Graduate Program Coordinator. If you cannot send all your items in one envelope on time, please send as much as you can in each envelope

· TRANSCRIPTS- Have your school(s) send your transcripts to you. Do not open the envelopes. We need TWO (2) sealed official copies of each transcript. Photocopies are NOT acceptable. We know that procuring transcripts from overseas schools can be difficult, but this is not a requirement that can be waived. We will need transcripts, in English, with the degree posted for every school you attended. If your school does not offer English transcripts, we will need an official (notarized) translation. Some overseas documents will need to be evaluated by World Educational Services (www.wes.org).

· LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION- Have your references send their letters to you. Do not open the envelopes. We need TWO (2) sealed originals of each letter (if the recommendations are not done online).

· STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

· WRITTING SAMPLE- Sample of written work such as a research paper submitted for an undergraduate class or a master’s thesis.

· GRE/TOEFL- If you know your GRE or TOEFL scores, please enter them on the application in addition to having the official scores reported to the University. We will verify them electronically at a later date. Please mail copies if you have them.

Where do I send my supporting materials?

DO NOT SEND ANY DOCUMENTS TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL.

Please mail everything directly to the Department of History (regardless of shipping method)

What if I have a technical problem with my online application?

If you have problems with the online application, please do not call the History Department. We do not have access to the application system. Please click the “Technical Support” link on the login page. Please keep in mind that if you leave applying to the last possible moment, and then have technical difficulties, you may not be able to get assistance in a timely manner.

Why do you require two originals of every document?

One set of originals is for the Graduate School and the other is for the History Department. This is part of being in a large university.

How do I know if you received my package?

Please send your items via a service that provides tracking. The sheer volume of mail we receive at this time of year does not permit us to individually acknowledge every item of mail received. We ask that you please do not call and ask us if we received your package. We are simply too understaffed to answer such calls. Please also understand that if you send a package via the US Postal Service, any tracking information received will tell you when it arrived in the Campus Mail Room, NOT when the History Department received it.

Who has to take the TOEFL exam? PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN “AUTOMATIC” TOEFL WAIVER. The TOEFL is not automatically waived for any student whose native/primary language is not listed as “English” on their application.

The University categorizes people into three language categories:

• NOTE: Intentional misrepresentation by a student of his/her native/primary language is academic dishonesty, and is grounds for dismissal from the University.
• NOTE: Our institution code is 2548 for the TOEFL exam.
• NOTE: Minimum scores are 213 for computer-based tests, 550 for paper-based tests and 90 for internet-based tests.
• NOTE: All doctoral students (PhD) who are not native/primary speakers of English, will have to take a SPEAK test upon arrival at the University. Depending on the result of this test, you may have to take ESL classes.

Who has to take the GRE?

Anyone applying to an academic program: MA and PhD applicants.

NOTE: Our institution code is 2548 for the GRE exam.

What if I haven’t taken the TOEFL or GRE exam yet?

We need to have the results in our office no later than January, 15. If your score is not received on time, it could jeopardize your admission to the program.

What sort of writing samples do I have to send?

PhD and MA Applicants: Sample of written work such as a research paper submitted for an undergraduate class or a master’s thesis. Submit essays in History research, analysis, or criticism that demonstrate your ability to carry out scholarly work in History. The papers, typically generated in prior course work, should be at least ten pages in length and demonstrate knowledge of proper bibliographic citation practices (your paper must contain a bibliography). Please send PHOTOCOPIES of your papers (do not send your originals).

What if I don’t have any papers in English?

The requirement still exists, and you should translate your paper(s). We know this is asking a lot, but it is absolutely essential to the admissions process.

How does the Department decide?

Admissions decisions are based primarily upon the admissions committee’s estimation of the student’s potential for scholarly achievement and the ability of the Stony Brook faculty to support the student in his or her intended field of scholarly study. If your file is incomplete, this will be impossible to determine.

When does the Department decide?

We send out admissions letters after the file review is complete. Offer letters are generally sent out in March. There is only one person processing all these letters, so please do not call to find out about the status of your letter.

What if it’s April, and I haven’t received my letter yet?

If you have not heard anything by April, please send us an email with your full name, and the degree you applied for. We will look into it and get back to you.

Can I call for your decision?

Results are only given in writing. Please do not call for your result.

What if my application is incomplete?

If your application is incomplete, the University will not admit you. It is crucial that all elements are included in the application. SOME items may be received late, but the earlier you submit your materials, the better. If your application is substantially incomplete, you will not be admitted.

What about double majors?

Applicants who wish to be double majors must apply separately for each major department and must be admitted by each faculty. You only need to send one application and pay one application fee, but you should indicate on the application that you wish to apply for more than one area of specialization.

GENERAL NOTES

§ When applying, the computer system may accept a late application, but it may not be accepted by the Department. The application fee is not refundable.

§ It is not necessary to send your paperwork in fancy bindings. If they are too bulky, we may have to remove them from the binding in order to fit in our file cabinets.

WHEN SUBMITTING PAPERS OR OTHER MATERIALS, be sure that your NAME, the DEGREE you are seeking appear AT LEAST on the front cover. Pages should be numbered, and the bibliography must be included. DO NOT fax or email papers.

Welcome to the new History Department website!  It is designed to maximize our connections with each other, as scholars and as teachers. My thanks to our web designer, Shekhar Krishnan, and the web design committee (Eric Beverley, Themis Chronopolous, and Christopher Sellers) for their hard work in putting the new site together.  Feel free to look around and let us know what you think.

Nancy Tomes
Department Chair and Professor of History

We require our graduate students to take a combination of theme seminars, which are organized around key areas of theoretical inquiry and give graduate students the opportunity to explore these issues as they relate to their own areas and periods of interest, field seminars, which focus on the history and historiography of specific regions and periods, and research seminars, which help students develop their research skills and explore questions of interest that often flow into the dissertation.

Fall 2008 Graduate Courses (link opens PDF)

Our faculty rock!

2005-2006

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

Each year, we admit 10-12 students into the doctoral program. Applications for graduate admission are handled through the Graduate School.  All students must now apply online.  You may begin this process, and see instructions and other information about doing so, by clicking on the following:  apply online.

If you have any questions about the process, please consult the information below, or for more detail, our page of “frequently asked questions”  (FAQs; click here).   Also feel free to call or email us with further questions, either the Graduate School office itself (631/632-4723), or our History Department Graduate Coordinator (Ms. Rose Ann Hodukavich, 631/632-7480 or phodukavich@notes.cc.sunysb.edu), or our Director of Graduate Studies (Professor Brooke Larson, blarson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu).

Completed applications for admission and financial assistance, along with all required supporting material, must be postmarked/submitted/received by January 15 (click here for further information on financial aid). Students are admitted only in the spring for study beginning in the fall.

Students are admitted for part-time study, though we have found that a high percentage of students who pursue doctoral study on a part-time basis do not complete the program.

We expect all applicants to have at least a bachelor’s degree in history or a degree in a closely related field with a substantial amount of coursework in history and a strong record of undergraduate achievement. In special cases, students who do not have a bachelor’s degree in history or whose GPA does not meet the requirements stated above may be admitted on a provisional basis for M.A. study only.

Applicants are also required to submit scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). The History subject test is not required. It is advisable, especially for financial aid applicants, to take the GRE no later than October to insure that the review of application materials is not delayed. Applicants may also wish to include photocopies of GRE score report (in addition to having the official score reported to the University).

Students whose first language is not English must submit scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Admissions decisions are based primarily upon the admissions committee’s estimation of the student’s potential for scholarly achievement and the ability of the Stony Brook faculty to support the student in his or her intended field of scholarly study. These decisions are based upon:

· the applicant’s undergraduate record
· letters of recommendation that describe the applicant’s achievements and potential for intellectual growth,
· a sample of written work (such as a research paper submitted for an undergraduate class or a master’s thesis) that illustrates the applicant’s capacity for research, analysis, creative thought, and writing skills, and
· GRE Scores
· a statement of purpose describing the intended field of study, the insights or experiences that lay behind the decision to specialize in this area, and the kinds of questions which the applicant hopes to explore. This statement should be as specific as possible, and applicants are encouraged to contact the professor(s) with whom they hope to work before submitting the application.

Courses in this thematic area seek to apply the methodologies developed in a variety of fields to the question of the impact of nature on human history. Environmental historians have joined other historians of a more materialist or geographic bent in exploring the ways in which cultural values, technologies, and systems of labor and production have shaped–and been reshaped by–both urban and rural environments. Meanwhile, historians of health and medicine have begun to study the body in terms of its historical interactions with nature at the most intimate level, while those interested in the powerful role science has come to hold in the modern world have taken their studies far beyond the laboratory to examine the ways in which our knowledge of nature has helped reconfigure modern politics, society, and culture. Topics might include history of the contrasts and inter-relations between city and country, technoscience in history, environment and health in global perspective, industry, place and politics, history of the body, and the political and cultural history of natural history.

Though it is imagined and experienced from different vantage points, the modern world-system is perhaps for the first time in human history a coherent and integrated object of analysis. Focusing upon transnational historical processes, courses in this thematic area will help students learn to analyze the politics of global encounters and the cultural contradictions of empire and modernity.  Possible topics for courses and research may include: the legacies of Enlightenment universalism; imperial conquest, slavery and subaltern struggles, migration, hybridity and diasporic identities, North/South relations, and technology, mass media, and global culture.

The nation-state comprises what has become a near-universal form of community and political organization in the modern world. Taking nationality and state-building as contested historical processes, the courses in this thematic area focus upon the emergence of modern states and their characteristic forms of political and public culture. It also examines alternatives to the modern nation-state through the lens of pre-modern, post-modern, and/or non-modern communities and political forms. Suggested topics include: war and society, democratic revolutions, the public sphere and civil society, nationalism and national identity, popular movements, variations on monarchy, urban structures, and post-colonial projects of nation-building and economic development.

In recent years, gender has become increasingly central to historical scholarship of every period and region, and courses in this thematic area examine the ways in which gender has shaped of social and political hierarchies within and across specific societies and times. At Stony Brook, faculty in American, European, Latin American, and Asian history do gender-related research and teach courses in this field, allowing many opportunities for comparison across cultures and times. This field is especially popular among graduate students, many of whom also complete the Women’s Studies Certificate program while completing their doctorates. Topics might include: technologies of reproduction, discourses of sexuality, the intersection of class, race and gender in social movements, the sexual division of labor, and the family.

Karl S. Bottigheimer, Early modern Europe, Britain, and Ireland.
David Burner, Political history, 20th century U.S. history
Ruth S. Cowan, History of science and technology, U.S. history.
Elizabeth Garber, History of science, European social and intellectual history.
Temma Kaplan (Women’s Studies), cultural and social movements, comparative history.
Fred Weinstein, History and Theory, Psychohistory, European History.
John A. Williams, South Africa, South Asia, expansion of Europe, European imperialism.
Judith Wishnia, France, women’s history, social history.

Environment, Medicine & Technology

Alix Cooper
Jared Farmer
Helen Rodnite Lemay
Donna Rilling
Wolf Schäfer
Chris Sellers
Nancy Tomes

Women & Gender

Susan Hinely
Young-Sun Hong
Helen Rodnite Lemay
Shirley Lim
Sara Lipton
Gary Marker
April Masten
Donna Rilling
Alice Ritscherle
Joel T. Rosenthal
Nancy Tomes
Kathleen Wilson

Empire & Colonialism

Jennifer Anderson
Michael Barnhart
Eric Lewis Beverley
Young-Sun Hong
Ned Landsman
Brooke Larson
Herman Lebovics
Janis Mimura
Alice Ritscherle
Wolf Schäfer
Chris Sellers
Nancy Tomes
Olufemi Vaughan
Kathleen Wilson

Atlantic World

Jennifer Anderson
Alix Cooper
Paul Gootenberg
Ned Landsman
April Masten
Donna Rilling
Kathleen Wilson

Race & Ethnicity

Eric Lewis Beverley
Themis Chronopoulos
Young-Sun Hong
Ned Landsman
Brooke Larson
Shirley Lim
Iona Man-Cheong
April Masten
Kathleen Wilson

Pre-Modern History

Alix Cooper
Robert Goldenberg
Helen Rodnite Lemay
Sara Lipton
Joel T. Rosenthal
Paul Zimansky

Religion & Culture

Alix Cooper
Robert Goldenberg
Ned Landsman
Shirley Lim
Sara Lipton
Gary Marker
April Masten

Latin America

Paul Gootenberg
Brooke Larson

Africa

John A. Williams
Olufemi Vaughan

United States & North America

Jennifer Anderson
Michael Barnhart
Themis Chronopoulos
Jared Farmer
Ned Landsman
Shirley Lim
April Masten
Wilbur R. Miller
Donna Rilling
Chris Sellers
Nancy Tomes

Asia

Michael Barnhart
Eric Lewis Beverley
Shirley Lim
Iona Man-Cheong
Janis Mimura
Paul Zimansky

Europe

Alix Cooper
Larry Frohman
Robert Goldenberg
Susan Hinely
Young-Sun Hong
Herman Lebovics
Helen Rodnite Lemay
Sara Lipton
Gary Marker
Alice Ritscherle
Joel T. Rosenthal
Wolf Schäfer
Kathleen Wilson

About Phi Alpha Theta

The international Honor Society in History, Phi Alpha Theta, was organized at the University of Arkansas on March 17, 1921. Since that time, it has grown to more than 740 chapters in 50 states and has more chapters than any other accreddited honor society in the world. The total number of initiates, since its inception, is more than 200,000. All students in accreddited institutions who have completed 12 hours of history and are maintaining high standards in their college or university studies are eligible for membership. Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society whose purpose is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication, and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students, teachers, and writers of history together both intellectually and socially; and it encourages and assists historical research and publication by its members in a variety of ways.

How to Join

1) Be a history major or minor
2) Have 12 credits in history courses (transfers count)
3) Have a 3.0 cumulative GPA
4) Have a 3.1 History GPA

Each semester there will be an informational meeting, scheduled to suit both MWF and TuTh schedules. There will be an application deadline each semester, TBA.

At this meeting you can fill out an application and pay your fees of $60 ($40 one time lifetime membership in the national organization; $20 yearly for the local chapter). Checks may be made out to either Phi Alpha Theta or Wilbur R. Miller (faculty advisor and treasurer).

Please bring an unofficial transcript (you can get this from the SOLAR system)

Activities

We sponsor a book sale each semester.
We have field trips, such as to Ellis Island, Old Bethpage Village, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of broadcasting, Radio City Music Hall.

Our biggest event is building a boat for the Roth Pond Regatta, and competing in the race (we placed second in 2003).

We always have an end of the year dinner.

We do have some academic activities, especially helping to organize and participate in the Eureka sponsored student research conference

Also there are national fellowship opportunities and a chance to publish papers in the Phi Alpha Journal, The Historian.

AND, WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MORE IDEAS AND ACTIVE MEMBERS!

Philip J. Staudenraus Award: for outstanding contributions to the life of the History Department

Stony Brook Foundation Award: for outstanding academic achievement in History

TWO Alex & Zach Traum Research Awards: one for the best Honors Thesis in American History and the other for excellent and promising work in American History by a junior

Roger Wunderlich Memorial Award: for outstanding work in American history with a focus on Long Island History

TWO Gardiner Scholarships ($1000 each): for most promising work in Early American History and/or History of the New York Region

W. K. Ferguson Award: for outstanding work in European, Latin American, Asian, or Global History

Three URECA Awards: for the three best papers presented at the annual URECA conference.

The History Department offers its students credits for internships.

HISTORY 488: INTERNSHIP

Participation in local, state, and national public and private agencies and organizations. Students will be required to submit written progress reports and a final written report on their experience to the faculty sponsor and the department. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading ONLY. May be repeated up to a limit of 12 credits. PREREQUISITES: 15 credits in history; permission of instructor, department, and Office of Undergraduate Studies.

To find an internship look at Stony Brook’s Career Center website for museum/history internships. Three credit on-campus internships are offered through NYPIRG. They also offer 12 credit internships in Albany.

Majors have two opportunites to conduct individual historical research through History 447: Independent Research, History 487: Supervised Research or through the Senior Honors Program.

Honors Project Application

Application for Independent Study

History 487: Supervised Research

Qualified advanced undergraduates may carry out individual research projects under the direct supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated.

Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and either department or departmental URECA coordinator.

Application for Supervised Research

Senior Honors Program

Departmental majors with a 3.0 average in history courses and related disciplines as specified in the major requirements are eligible to enroll in the history honors program at the beginning of their senior year. The student, after asking a faculty member to be a sponsor, must submit a proposal to the department indicating the merit of the planned research. The supervising faculty member must also submit a statement supporting the student’s proposal. This must be done in the semester prior to the beginning to the project. The honors paper resulting from a student’s research is read by two historians and a member of another department, as arranged by the director of undergraduate studies. If the paper is judged to be of unusual merit and the student’s record warrants such a determination, the department recommends honors.

Past Presentations at the Undergraduate History Research Conference

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN HISTORY

The major in history leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. Completion of the major requirements entails 39 credits (33 credits in history plus 6 credits in a related field).

All courses taken to meet requirements I and II must be taken for a letter grade. No grade lower than “C”. At least 12 credits must be taken at Stony Brook. No transfer grade lower than C will be accepted towards the major.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR IN HISTORY

I. History Courses (Total 33 credits)

A. Two courses at the Introductory 100-level (6 credits)

B. Five courses in one of the following primary fields: United States, Europe, Latin America, Asian Ancient or Medieval or Global history. (Note: Other primary fields, based on topical or thematic lines may be selected with the approval of the department’s Undergraduate Director.

The 15 credits of courses shall be distributed as follows:
Two courses at the 200 level
Two courses at the 300 level
One course at the 400 level, excluding His 447, 487, 488,495 and 496

C. HIS 301 (Must be completed prior to the 400-level seminar in your primary field).

D. Three courses selected from outside the primary field and above the 100 level, with at least
one of these courses at the 300 or 400 level.

II. Courses in a Related Discipline (Total 6 credits)

TWO upper-division courses in ONE discipline. Examples of suggested disciplines are Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Philosophy, Art History, Music History, Religious Studies, Africana Studies, Women’s Studies, English Literature, Humanities, etc.

III. Upper-Division Writing Requirement

Students will be required to complete an upper-division course in their primary field. They will inform the instructor of the course in advance of their plan to use the term paper (or papers) in fulfillment of the writing requirement for the major. In addition to the grade for the course, the instructor will make a second evaluation of writing competency in the field of history. If the second evaluation is favorable, the paper will be submitted to the Undergraduate Director for final approval.

Notes:

1. All courses taken to meet major requirements must be taken for a letter grade.
2. No grade lower than a C may be applied toward the major requirements.
3. At least 12 credits in Group A must be taken within the Department of History at
Stony Brook including the 300-level writing seminar and the 400-level seminar.
4. No transferred course with a grade lower than C may be applied toward the Major
requirements.

FORMS

History Major Declaration Form [***]
History Major Checklist [***]
Writing Requirement Form [***]

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR IN HISTORY

The minor, which requires 18 credits, is organized around the student’s interest in a particular area of history, defined either by geography (e.g., United States, Latin America) or topic (e.g., imperialism, social change). Courses must be taken for a letter grade. No grades lower than C in upper division courses may be applied to the history minor. At least nine of the 18 credits must be taken at Stony Brook, with three of the courses at the upper division level. The specific distribution of the credits should be determined in consultation with the director of undergraduate studies. An example of an acceptable distribution would be the following: 1. One two-semester survey course in the period of the student’s interest (100 or 200 level)
2. One (additional) course at the 200 level
3. Three courses at the 300 or 400 level, at least one of which must be at the 400 level

NOTE

HIS 447, 487. 488 may not be used to satisfy minor requirements.

Melixa Abad Izquierdo
m_abadiz@yahoo.com
Mexican telenovelas (1960-1970), nation building, gender construction and modernity
Dissertation Title: “The Mexican soap operas happen in a country without government, economy or problems: Telenovelas, politics and censorship”
Advisor: Paul GootenbergMagally Alegre-Henderson
malegreh@ic.sunysb.edu
Latin American late colonial and early republican history (18th - 19th century), History of Sexuality, Queer Studies

Miguel Che Alonso
chealonso@aol.com
African Slavery in 20th century Caribbean, with an emphasis on Brazil and Cuba.

Annalyda Alveraz-Caldero
analvare@ic.sunysb.edu
Colonial Latin America, with an emphasis on cultural and religious history.

Jonathan Anzalone
jdanzalo@ic.sunysb.edu
Late 19th- and 20th-century United States environmental, cultural, and social history.

Juan Pablo Artinian
Artinian1979@yahoo.com.ar
Modern Latin America

Annessa Babic
ababic@ic.sunysb.edu
U.S. social, popular culture, consumption, and gender
Dissertaiton Title: “Undoing Glory: Gendered Constructions of Patriotism in Twentieth Century US Society, 1917-1972″
Advisor: Bill Miller

Soraya D. Baselious
sorbaselious@aol.com
U.S. History and Environmental History

Norberto Barreto-Velazquez
nbarreto@ic.sunysb.edu
Twentieth century U.S. foreign relations.

Hedi BenAicha
Riverhed@aol.com
Modern France and French colonialism with an interest in North Africa and the Middle East.

Mithun Bhattacharya
mbhattac@ic.sunysb.edu
Comparative Environmental History
Amanda Bruce
amandabruce@yahoo.com
U.S. social, popular culture and consumption, childhood
Dissertation Title: “Strangers in the Living Room: Radio, Television, and American Families”

Andrea Boffa
aboffa@ic.sunysb.edu
Medieval history, constructions of gender and sexuality, women’s spirituality.

Alessandro Buffa
abuffa@ic.sunysb.edu
Dissertation topic: Representations of the Urban Crisis in The Bronx and Naples since the 1960s
Advisor: Themis Chronopoulos

Neil P. Buffett
nbuffett@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
20th Century U.S. social movements, urban/suburban history, race relations, and the environment.
Dissertation Title: “Black, White, and Green: High School Student Activism in the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements”
Advisor: Christopher C. Sellers

Kenneth Card
kcardjr@ic.sunysb.edu

Andrea Catapano
brandelit@aol.com

Mark Chambers
mchamber@ic.sunysb.edu
Early American Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Health

Eric Cimino
ECimino@ic.sunysb.edu
Modern Germany

Christine Cleaton
ccleaton@aol.com

Linda Conron
conron@bellatlantic.net

Christine Contrada
Christine.Contrada@sunysb.edu
Early Modern Europe with a focus on the Italian Renaissance
Tentative Dissertation Title: “The Civic Identity of Women in Fifteenth Century Florence”

Silvia Cristelli
scristel@ic.sunysb.edu also scristelli@hotmail.com
Field area: Late 19th century/ early 20th century Bolivia.

Tanfer Emin
temin@ic.sunysb.edu
History of medicine: US, 19th and 20th centuries; social history; gender, sexuality and reproduction; feminist theory.

Yvie Fabella
yfabella@ic.sunysb.edu
Social and cultural history of modern France and the colonial French Caribbean.
Dissertation Title: “‘Priestesses of Venus’ and Jealous Creoles: Gender, Citizenship and the Construction of Race in Colonial Saint Domingue, 1763-1791″

Luke J. Feder
lfeder@ic.sunysb.edu
Early American History, Political and Cultural History

Kenia Fernandez
kmf3@mindspring.com

Marc Ferris
mferris@bestweb.net

M. Consuelo Figueroa G.
consuelofigueroa66@hotmail.com
Modern Latin America

Catherine Flamenbaum
catmanfla@aol.com

Mark A. Frederiksen
mafreder@ic.sunysb.edu
Colonial America, 18th c Intellectual History, Atlantic World

Enrique Garguin
egarguin@hotmail.com

Jeff Geary
revgeary@hotmail.com
Medieval French Cultures, Religious Practices and Changes, Jewish and Christian Self-Definition

Christopher Gennari
cgennari@ic.sunysb.edu
European military history.

Luis Martin Gomez
lugomez@ic.sunysb.edu, gomezzi@hotmail.com
Latin American History

Anne-Marie Grimaud
amgri@club-internet.fr
American social and cultural history, 1918-1939; modern France, 1817-1968.

Aimin Guo
Guoam@hotmail.com

Jean-Baptiste Hajayandi
Jean-Baptiste.Hajayandi@sunysb.edu
African History; Post-”Independences” State Building, Leadership and U.S. involvement in African political developments.

Jeff Hall
chall@ic.sunysb.edu
20th Century US Environmental History
Dissertation Title: “Prisons, Nature, and Labor in New York’s Adirondack Wilderness, 1945-1997″

Terry R. Hamblin
thamblin@yahoo.com
US History, History of US Foreign Relations, Cultural Diplomacy
Dissertation title: “Selling America?: The Voice of America and US Cultural Diplomacy in Western Europe, 1945-1956″

Alberto Harambour-Ross
albertoharambour@hotmail.com, aharambo@ic.sunysb.edu
Social and Political History of the Popular Sectors in Contemporary Chile and Argentina. Identity in the borderlands: History of Patagonia. Contemporary Latin America.

Gabriel Hernandez
gahernan@ic.sunysb.edu
Modern Latin American History

Sarah Hoglund
shoglund@ic.sunysb.edu

David Hollis

Elizabeth Hornor
elizabeth_hornor@hotmail.com
Colonial America, British-Indian Relations

Jeremy W. Hubbell
Jeremy.Hubbell@sunysb.edu
Technology History and Industrial Aesthetics.
Webpage: http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/jhubbell/

Greg Jackson
chavar66@optonline.net
Contemporary Latin America, Race, Gender, Identity and Sport History

Alfreda S. James
alfreda.james@sunysb.edu.

Annie Linda Khan
zkahn@nyc.rr.com
Latin America, Anglophone Caribbean, post-colonial

Christina Kahr
ckahr@ic.sunysb.edu
Twentieth Century Latin America with an emphasis on Argentina and Peronism; Women’s studies.

Ketty Karmazin

Elizabeth Kelley

Toby Kurth
jkurth@ic.sunysb.edu
Colonial America, Religious History

Kraig Larkin
Kraig.Larkin@sunysb.edu
Twentieth Century German Cultural History
Dissertation Title: “Powerful Butts: The Culture of Smoking in Germany, 1930s-1970s”

ChanHaeng Lee
chalee@ic.sunysb.edu
20th Century U.S. History; Immigration; Marxist Historiography and Postcolonial Criticism

Scott C. Lesko
Scott.Lesko@sunysb.edu
Dissertation Title: “Framing the Nation: Victorian Photographic Societies and the Construction of British Modernity, 1880-1914″
Modern Britain and Empire, Cultures of Imperialism and Gender Studies
Advisor: Kathleen Wilson

Guy LoFaro
kg8073@exmail.usma.army.mil.

Christopher J. Mauceri
cjm427@optonline.net
19th Century US: American Slavery and Antislavery, Civil War and Reconstruction

Rika Michalos
rika@nyc.rr.com

Theresa A. Milstein
tmilstei@ic.sunysb.edu

Michael J. Murphy
mjmurphy@ic.sunysb.edu
Twentieth Century America, U.S. Labor History

James Nichols
jdnichol@ic.sunysb.edu
North American Slaveries and Borderlands

Timothy Nicholson
t_nicholson1@yahoo.com
African and British Imperial History

Seth Offenbach
seth.offenbach@sunysb.edu
Modern US Political History

Ed O’Connell
etoconne@ic.sunysb.edu

Elizabeth O’Connell
20th century US culture, popular culture, baseball and masculinity
evoconnell@yahoo.com

Catherine Overfield.

Silvana Palermo
palermo_sil@yahoo.com
Modern Latin American.

Stephen Raymond Patnode
spatnode@ic.sunysb.edu
U.S. twentieth century, cultural, gender, labor history, history of medicine (specifically addiction in inter-war America), history of interdisciplinary scholarship.
Dissertation in Progress: “Labor’s Lost Love: Gender and the Workplace
in Post-war America.”
Advisor: Christopher Sellers

Nichole Prescott
nsprescott@gmail.com
Gender, sexuality, and comparative women’s history in early modern Spain and colonial Latin America.

Hernan Pruden
hpruden@ic.sunysb.edu

Ana Julia Ramirez
ajramire@ic.sunysb.edu

Tom Randall
jrantom@aol.com

Margaret M. Reid
mmreid_1999@yahoo.com
Twentieth Century American History with a special interest in American Foreign Policy and Japan.
Dissertation title: “Tap’er light: Ambassador Mike Mansfield and United States-Japanese Relations, 1977-89″

Glenn Reynolds
glennmel@earthlink.net
Dissertation: “Picture Power: Film for Uplift and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1921-41″

Annette M. Ricciardi-Cramer van den Bogaart
amricciardi@verizon.net
Colonial America and the Atlantic World
Dissertation: “Women and the West India Company: Shaping Gender Discourses in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic.”

Tara Rider
TaraRider@hotmail.com
Colonial America and maritime history

Timothy Rood
trood@hamptons.com
American History.

Jennifer Rook
jrook@hotmail.com
History of early America

Lynn D. Rubin
lrubin@ic.sunysb.edu
Twenthieth Century America, African American and Police History. Concentration on Black Power and SNCC.

Stephen Sanfilippo
ssanfili@mail.longwoodcsd.com

Gib Sansing
jsansing@ic.sunysb.edu

Matthew Scalena
mscalena@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Modern Latin America.

Alexandra Schultz

Ari Sclar
asclar@ic.sunysb.edu
Dissertation in Progress: “From Caged to Court Jews: Basketball and American Jewish Culture, 1890s-1950″

Diane Scotto

Spencer Segalla
ssegalla@aya.yale.edu
North African Nationalism, French colonialism and education

Gloria Sesso
History of America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

Xia Shi
helenshipku@hotmail.com
British Women’s History

Laura Sialiano
laura_sialiano@yahoo.com
History of the British Empire

Elizabeth Sloan
esloan@ic.sunysb.edu
Twentieth Century France, Colonialism

Mitchell Solovay

Hernan Sorgentini
hsorgentini@yahoo.com

Donna Spinda
dspinda@ic.sunysb.edu

Susanna Taipale
staipale@ic.sunysb.edu

Oscar Tanko

Amy Thompson

Katrina D. Thompson
KatrinaDThompson1@yahoo.com
U. S. History, African American history, mass media, race and popular culture
Dissertation Title: “The Staging of Race: The Development of Black Culture and Whiteness through the Performance Arts”

Robert Tumminello
tumminello@aol.com

Ron Van Cleef
ronvancleef@aol.com
Modern Germany: National Identity, Sexuality and Social Class
Dissertation Title: “American Influence and Homosexual Activism in West Germany, 1949-1989″

Alejandra Vassallo
History of the women’s movement in Argentina in the 19th and 20th century; feminism, nationalism.

Anahi Walton
awalton@ic.sunysb.edu
History of modern Latin America; U.S.-Latin America relations.

Janet Witta
European history from 1789-1914, with an emphasis on Germany.

Kenge Wilson-Ritten

Dan Woulfin
dwoulfin@ic.sunysb.edu

Tong Xu

Jessica A. York
yorkie8shu@aol.com
Modern East Asian History, American Women’s History, 20th Century American & History of Modern Policing

Dewen Zhang
zdw99@yahoo.com
Women, Gender, and culture in China

Teaching Assistantships, Fellowships, and Other Support

Many graduate students are funded through TEACHING ASSISTANCESHIPS. The History Department receives approximately twenty-five teaching assistantships per year from various sources; it also has a small number of GRADUATE ASSISTANCESHIPS. Many full-time graduate students receive full tuition waivers. In addition, the Department has a series of PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS, created by the president of the university, to be used to recruit promising new doctoral students. The Department also has an endowed fellowship, known as the EVAN FRANKEL FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP, that is given each year to an outstanding first year student in the doctoral program and continues for four years. The GARDINER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP awards funding to a graduate student researching early American History or subjects related to aspects of American history in which the Gardiner family played an important role - principally colonial American history and the history of the greater New York region.

Everyone who applies is automatically considered for financial assistance from the History Department, usually in the form of a Teaching Assistantship/Tuition Scholarship. There are no special forms to fill out for Departmental support.

GRADUATE COUNCIL FELLOWSHIPS AND TURNER FELLOWSHIPS – Entering graduate students in history may also be nominated by the admissions committee to compete for these university-sponsored awards. If you wish to be considered for either of these financial opportunities, you will need to have your application completed before January 1^st. Students wishing to be considered for these awards must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.  Turner Fellows must self-identify as either African-American, Native American, or Hispanic on their application

US Citizens and Permanent Residents are also eligible for other forms of financial aid, which are applied for via the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.  Click here for more information, also to apply.

Most NY residents are also eligible for the NYS Tuition Assistance Program (TAP).  Click here for more information, also to apply.

Various Awards and Other Funding for Existing Students

The History Department has limited funds to subsidize graduate student travel to conferences and research depositories through the Werner T. Angress Graduate Student Fund. The Fred Weinstein Award is presented annually to the student judged to have written the best dissertation chapter. The Ernesto Chinchilla/Aguilar Award is presented annually to a distinguished graduate student in Latin American History. In addition, a small number of graduate student summer travel grants are available through a grant form the Mellon Foundation.

Stony Brook’s Graduate Student Organization provides a yearly award for professional development known as the Resource Access Project (RAP). RAP forms can be found here.

Outside Fellowships and Grants [***]

The History Department offers a masters program that qualifies students for employment in a number of fields, including teaching and government research, though in past years a substantial number of people admitted to this program have ultimately gone on to pursue the Ph.D.Please note that the masters program only accepts students for the fall semester. Full-time students can normally expect to complete the program in three semesters.

The Department only admits a limited number of students to the master’s program each year, and interested students are strongly encouraged to contact the faculty members with whom they may be interested in working. Prospective students should be aware that funding opportunities for masters students are limited, as Graduate School regulations stipulate that students pursing only a master’s degree in a department that offers a doctoral degree cannot be awarded a teaching assistantship or similar forms of funding. For additional information on financial aid for masters students, see http://naples.cc.stonybrook.edu/Prov/financial.nsf.

I. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Students in the masters program follow the same course of study as entering doctoral students. They are expected to develop a concentration in a region or period, or in an interdisciplinary field, and to conduct research in this area of concentration in the core seminar.

A. Coursework: The required coursework for the masters degree consists of 30 credit hours distributed in the following manner:

1. Core Seminar (HIS 525/526, 524/527, 3 credits each semester): This course provides an intensive, year-long introduction to historical theory and research and familiarizes students with the thematic organization of the Stony Brook graduate program. All full-time students in the master’s program are required to take this course, which is offered only as a fall/spring sequence, during their first year.

2. Two Field Seminars (3 credits each): The department offers a number of field seminars designed to familiarize students with the history and historiography of specific regions. These courses include HIS 501/502, 521/522, 541/542, 561, and 562. These courses are offered–at minimum–on a two-year cycle, though many of them are offered each year. Students choosing to concentrate in the history of a specific region are encouraged, but not required, to complete both parts of the field seminar sequence where available.

3. Two Theme Seminars (3 credits each): The theme seminars are the heart of the department’s commitment to the theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary study of history. Theme seminars are offered in the following areas: 1)Women, Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction; 2)Nation-State and Civil Society; 3)Empire, Modernity, and Globalization; and 4)Environment, Science and Health. A minimum of two theme seminars are offered each semester. Topics change regularly, and students are free to choose among the theme seminars being offered.

4. Four Electives (3 credits each): The remaining 12 credits can be selected from Field Seminars, Theme Seminars, the graduate courses offered in conjunction with other departments (e.g. sociology, Africana Studies, and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies), and Workshops.

Below is one sample course of study for students in the masters program:

Fall
HIS 524: Core Seminar
HIS 521: Field Seminar - United States History to the Civil War
HIS 584: Workshop (elective)
HIS 5XX: Theme seminar

Spring
HIS 526: Core Seminar
HIS 522: Field Seminar - United States History since the Civil War
HIS 584: Workshop (elective)
HIS 5XX: Theme seminar (elective)

Summer
HIS 561: Field Seminar - Asian History (elective)
HIS ***: Orals Workshop (elective)
B. Language Requirement: Master’s students with a concentration in European history must pass a written exam in an appropriate foreign language, and students in Latin American history must pass a written exam in Spanish or Portuguese. The other areas of concentration currently do not require a foreign language for the master’s degree.

C. Oral Examination: By the second semester in the program the student in consultation with her/his advisor should name two other members of the department as her/his examination committee. The committee will help the student define her/his examination field based on her/his coursework and reading in the program.

The oral examination is taken at the end of the student’s course of study. By the end of the semester that precedes the examination, the student shall present to each member of the examining committee a list of books read. At that time the committee shall advise the student of any additional reading to be completed before the examination. This reading may be completed as part of an orals workshop during the semester of the examination. The student should see the Graduate Program Coordinator to set the time and date of the examination. The examination will be oral, approximately two hours in length, and based on the student’s examination field. The committee will grade the examination “pass with distinction”, “pass”, or “fail”.

II. Advising

Upon acceptance of the student into the graduate program, the graduate director will assign the student an advisor based on the interests identified by the student in her/his application to the program. If the student decides to make a significant change in field of interest, her/his advisor should be changed accordingly, in consultation with the graduate director.

The advisor will meet with each advisee during the registration period of the first semester to discuss the structure and requirments of the program and the student’s individual course of study. The advisor will meet with the student for the same purpose each semester. Course and requirement check-off sheets will be given to the student each semester, which will be filled out for the Department’s Graduate Office in consultation with the advisor.

The advisor will be present and participate in the annual Faculty Meeting and Student Conference, where departmental instructors discussion each student’s overall performance and progress over the school year (see below). In general, the advisor will meet with the student regularly as she/he progresses through the program.

III. Master’s Students Seeking to Enter the Ph.D. Program

Master’s students seeking to continue into the Ph.D. program must submit a formal application to the Graduate School. Admission into the Ph.D. program is not guaranteed.

The Stony Brook doctoral program offers an intensive, far-ranging education, culminating in an original research and writing project.  It prepares students for a professional career in higher education, or for jobs in media, government or other fields which rely upon the skills and knowledge of the historian.   In addition to acquiring thorough training in a chosen specialty defined by time (medieval, early modern, 18th, 19th or 20th centuries) and by place (Latin American, U.S., European, Asian or African), students of different periods and regions of the world take many of the same courses, on topics drawn from the department’s thematic areas.

The first phase of doctoral program consists of course work.  During their first year, all students take a core seminar which covers fundamental readings in several thematic areas, as well as basic methods of research and historical writing.  Early on, the stu