In The Spotlight
Congratulations to Debjani Chakrabarty (PhD student, South Asian history) who has won a dissertation planning grant from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies to carry out her project, “Vagrant Empire: Crime, Labor and Mobility in Colonial South Asia, 1830-1940.”
Professor Shobana Shankar recently published an essay, "The Indian Question in Afrocentric Politics," in a special issue of Public Culture commemorating the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda.
News and Announcements
The Stony Brook University History Graduate Student Association is excited to invite you to the 8th Annual History Graduate Student Conference on March 6 at Humanities Institute, classroom 1008. This year’s theme, Revolution: Imagined Futures, Remembered Pasts, explores the intricate connections between diverse revolutionary projects, intellectual traditions, and rebellious movements. View the full schedule here.
In The Media
Associate Professor Robert Chase was featured in an interview and Q & A on "The Past and Present of Prison Labor" in Bolts Magazine, a magazine dedicated to "the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the ground up."
Jacques Coste-Cacho (PhD candidate, Latin American history) recently published an article in The Mexico Brief about the impact President Trump's foreign policy has had on Mexican policymakers.