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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 developer 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

Department News

New Social Studies Education web site

The Social Studies Education web site has moved!  The new URL is http://history.sunysb.edu/graduate/masters/sse. Pass the word on to your students.

Posted in Department News by Larry Frohman on October 21, 2008 at 7:58 am

Stony 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.

Posted in Department News, Graduate, Research by Chris Sellers on September 26, 2008 at 9:02 am

Message from the Chair

I am privileged to be the current Chair of the History Department at Stony Brook. Our program has achieved remarkable success over the past two decades. Our faculty have compiled an exceptional record of productivity, as measured in article and book publication; moreover, the quality of that work has been exceptional as well, reflected in [...]

Posted in Department News by Nancy Tomes on August 22, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Upcoming conferences

Mark your calendars for two major conferences being sponsored by the History Department in 2008-2009.
I. “The Eighteenth Century Cosmopolis: Global Cities and Citizens in the Age of Sail.”
October 23-24, 2008 at Stony Brook Manhattan
Co-sponsored with the Stony Brook Humanities Institute.
Click on this web link for more information.  Conference poster (links to PDF).
II.  “The Worlds of Lion [...]

Posted in Department News, Empire Modernity & Globalisation, Home Page, Research by Nancy Tomes on August 21, 2008 at 3:51 pm

Department Colloquium Series

All presentations will be held in SBS N303.
Dr. Chris Sellers, “What was Earth Day?”
Thursday, February 9, 2007, 2:20-3:40pm
Dr. Robert Goldenberg, “When did ‘the Jews’ begin to Notice Christianity?”
Thursday, March 1, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm
Dr. April Masten
“The Challenge Dance: Mid-Nineteenth Century Migrations of Afro-Celtic Popular Culture”
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm
Alberto Harambour
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 12:50-2:10pm

Posted in Department News by Nancy Tomes on January 15, 2007 at 5:40 pm