In The Spotlight
Congratulations to our very own Tamara Fernando, named 2025 ACLS Fellow!
Congratulations to Huzaifa Dokaji (PhD candidate in African history) for being recognized as a "special educator who went above and beyond to encourage, inspire and students,"
according to a citation he has received from Stony Brook University's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).
Associate Professor Robert Chase was recently interviewed for Barcelona's El Punt Avui on the history of Alcatraz island prison. In "Alcatraz: Torna la Disputa" Chase discusses why Trump's declaration about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison
is an inefficient and costly proposal, and what it means for this culturally, symbolically,
and historically important site to be mobilized as a symbol of "law and order" America
under Trump.
News and Announcements
Attention all historians! The 9/11 Committee at Stony Brook University, consisting of Nancy Tomes, Kristen Nyitray, and Daniel Henao, has produced a self-guided walking tour and StoryMap through five sites in Stony Brook University's west campus for the September 11 commemorations of 2025. Please scan the QR code posted above to acess the StoryMap tour, which can be done in-person or virtually online.
The History Club is holding its first meeting on Wednesday, September 3, 12:30PM-1:30PM at Social and Behavioral Sciences N302. Please visit SB Engaged to sign in and RSVP! All are welcome!
Will Mack has published in the Journal of Haitian Studies, titled "Transnational Carceral Regimes and Punitive Anticommunism: The Creation of the Totalitarian State in Haiti (1957-1986)." Will is making an important intervention here to place carceral studies within a more transnational and global empire lens.
In The Media
Associate Professor Robert Chase is a guest lecturer on the podcast 'The Alarmist' discussing the 1980 New Mexico Prison Uprising. They write, "His insight on the context and culture in which this uprising unfolds is invaluable and haunting." Listen to the latest episode here!
Distinguished Professor Nancy Tomes was recently cited in an NPR article titled 'Ancient Miasma Theory May Help Explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine
Moves.' A prominent scholar in the history of medicine, Dr. Tomes is widely recognized for
her expertise on germ theory and the complex relationship between scientific authority
and public perceptions of health, the body, and disease.
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD student in Latin American History) recently published an article in the British media platform, Mexico Brief, "Mexico’s judiciary now serves many masters."
