In The Spotlight
Congratulations to PhD Student Shiqi Wang for being awarded the Noriaki Tsuchimoto Research Grant from Yale University! The grant will enable Shiqi to conduct research in the university's archives for the summer of 2026.
Dr. Shobana Shankar was recently interviewed by John Piche' of the Cleveland Heights Library on "Africa, India and the Making of Race."
Professor Shankar has also published an article in Africa Is A Country on life in Nigeria after the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts since January 2025.
Congratulations, Dr. Christopher Sellers, on becoming the newest Distinguished Faculty in the Department!
News and Announcements
🚩 News Highlight 🚩
For the 25th anniversary of September 11, the 9/11 Committee at Stony Brook University, consisting of Nancy Tomes, Kristen Nyitray and Daniel Henao, will be producing more projects in 2026 to commemorate the victims from Stony Brook, Long Island, and the larger New York state whose lives were lost from the attacks. This endeavor began with a commemorative StoryMap in the fall of 2025, which can be accessed here via the "Making History" section of the department website.
The History Department would like to say happy holidays and a great new year to all historians and Seawolves! And, good luck to all those preparing for finals as the semester wraps up!
The History Club has entered the Wolfstock Homecoming Door Decorating Contest. If you have time, please take a few minutes to check out the door of the club and give them your support!
In The Media
PhD Candidate Nicolas Allen recently interviewed João Paulo Rodrigues, the national leader of Brazil's Landless Worker Movement, for Jacobin.
Dr. Kathleen Wilson recently published a contribution in Small Axe, entitled "Lucky Valley in the World: Racial Capitalism and the Eighteenth-century British Empire." The article looks at Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism and explores how the legacy of empire from the eighteenth century conciously and unconsciously shapes modern day society.
Dr. Susannah Glickman was recently interviewed by The New York Review to cover how the second Trump administration is currently managing US industrial policy with on-going global trade wars and deals with private equity firms.
