http://history.sunysb.edu State University of New York, Stony Brook Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:52:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en April Masten, Associate Professor of American History at SUNY Stony Brook, has been awarded a highly competitive resident fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for the Spring 2008 semester. The Davis Center was named in honor of an alumnus who provided a generous gift ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/11/12/masten-at-davis-center/ CURRICULUM VITÆ Herman Lebovics Department of History Stony Brook University Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4348 E-mail hglebovics@aol.com Herman.Lebovics@stonybrook.edu Home 105 Grant Street Port Jefferson, NY 11777 (631) 476-9598 EDUCATION B.A., 1956 University of Connecticut, Storrs M.A., 1957 Yale University Freie Universität Berlin 1959-1960 Ph.D., 1965 Yale University POSITIONS Instructor, Brooklyn College, 1962‑65 Visiting Assistant Professor, ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/22/curriculum-vitae/ 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. http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/21/228/ This seminar takes legal systems and the criminalization of social groups as lenses on modern states' techniques for disciplining populations, reproducing structures of privilege, and articulating nationalist ideologies. In addition to looking from the perspective of states, we consider the ways subjects and citizens manipulate, modify and evade legal ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/19/his-554-law-crime-and-the-state-spring-09/ Colonial South Asia comprised much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and was dubbed ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the British Empire at its height. The Subcontinent's status as the most populous and lucrative colony of the world’s largest empire profoundly shaped the world of both colonized ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/19/his-348-colonial-south-asia-spring-09/ The South Asia region – contemporary India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan – has been a crossroads of diverse people, ideas and commodities for millennia. This course covers key themes and developments in South Asia between about 1000 and 1750. British colonial rule ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/19/his-340-south-asia-before-colonialism-fall-08/ Taking oceans, rather than nations or empires, as key units for historical study focuses attention on the movement of people, ideas and commodities across space, and the political and cultural formations that emerge from these circulations. This course will accordingly consider several different stages of globalization from ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/19/his-30105-the-world-of-the-indian-ocean-fall-08/ Check out the following coverage of a joint effort by Stony Brook faculty and leaders and residents of the small suburban town of Port Jefferson, NY, to "Green Port Jefferson." Page 12 details an effort to study Port Jefferson's carbon footprint, led by Chris Sellers of the History Department, and ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/10/11/climates-intiative-carbon-footprint-of-port-jefferson-ny/ 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. http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/09/26/stony-brook-initiative-in-the-historical-social-sciences/ Please feel free to visit the website for the conference I recently convened at Stony Brook, along with University of Exeter's Joseph Melling, December 13-15, 2008, on "Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World." Among the results of the conference are a planned edited volume, as well as ... http://history.sunysb.edu/2008/09/24/recent-conference-dangerous-trade/