Department of History Statement
Response to the Police Intervention on campus early May 2024
In The Spotlight
The Stony Brook History Department prepares its doctoral students for a wide range
of career opportunities! Michelle Spinelli, who received her PhD in 2020, has launched
a successful career as an independent scholar and editor. She is now at Yale University,
where she is resident historian at the Yale School of Management, helping them prepare
a history to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding in 1976. Check out
her most recent post “The Historian’s Notebook: 50 Years of Business and Society.”
Congratulations, Michele! We are so proud of you!
Congratulations!!
Fernando Amador, who defended his dissertation in March, has just accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Digital and Environmental History at California State University.
Bonnie Soper, who recently defended her dissertation, has accepted the position of Assistant Professional Professor at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi where she will start in the fall.
Congratulations to Dafina Nedelcheva (PhD candidate) for winning the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship for her dissertation project, "Europe’s Post-Soviet (Memory) Spaces." The funding will permit Dafina to conduct additional research in Varna, Bulgaria in the coming year.
Congratulations to our Business Administrator, Erin Giuliano (MA, History '13), for being awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Staff Excellence Award! We are so thrilled to have Erin back in the department in this critical administrative role and cannot think of a more well-deserved award to honor her commitment to the History Department. Yay, Erin!
News and Announcements
In The Media
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.
