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
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.
