In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Francisco Rodríguez (PhD candidate in Latin American history) for his recent co-authored publication, "APSI: Studying the Underground Critiques of an Overground Magazine," Radical History Review (October 2024) on a Chilean magazine critical of the regime that appeared during the dictatorship in Chile.
Congratulations to Monique Watson (Double Major in History & Political Science, '14) for her recent selection as one of this year's 40 Under 40 honorees! Monique has held a number of fascinating roles in the non-profit section, and is currently with the Strategy Leadership Program (SLP) at College Board where she works on innovative, equity-based projects aimed at enhancing students' learning outcomes and enhancing teacher efficacy.
Congratulations to PhD students Francisco Rodriguez and Sarah Ahmedani, who co-received the Department's Jackson Main Award for Best Seminar Paper of 2023-24. Both Francisco and Sarah were students in Prof. Lori Flores's "Oral History" seminar, and produced papers that required interviewing multiple subjects. Francisco won for his paper "Voices from the Diaspora: Pan-Arabism and the Arab Identity in Chile After the Nakba, 1950-1999" and Sarah won for her paper "Trauma and Legacy at New York's Thomas Indian School, 1920-1950."
News and Announcements
In The Media
Aishani Gupta (PhD, 2023) co-authored a recent article on her work in Museum Collections Documentation & Curatorial Planning at the home of the preeminent scientist and polymath, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, and his wife Lady Abala Bose, a champion of women's education in colonial Bengal. The article has been published by The Heritage Lab.
Jacques Coste Cacho, PhD candidate in Latin American History, was recently quoted in a New York Times article, "Mexican Military Fatally Shoots Six Migrants." Jacques' research focuses on civil society and transitions to democracy during the 1970s-80s in Mexico.
Congratulations to Ilya Kudryashov for their recent publication in the Stony Brook Undergraduate History Journal, “An Intellectual History of Community-Based Care and Policing From 1990-2005: Psychotic and Substance Use Disorders”. Kudryashov discusses the deinstitutionalization movement in the United States and the long-term ramifications of the movement’s failure.
