2024

PhD Student Chijioke Ngobili Delivers Guest Lecture on Africa’s Role in Global Music Culture
12/6/24
On December 4, 2024, Chijioke Ngobili, a PhD student in the Department of History, presented a guest lecture on UB’s North Campus titled “The Largest Sociocultural Convergence of the Atlantic in West Africa and the Making of Global Popular Music Culture: WWII’s Legacy.”
Andreas Daum’s Biography of Alexander von Humboldt Featured in The New Yorker
12/18/24
"The New Yorker" recently reviewed "Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography" by Andreas W. Daum, a professor in the Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences.
Chair Stapleton quoted in Newsweek
11/1/24
"Newsweek" quoted Chairperson Kristin Stapleton in an article about the pressure on President Biden to get adopted children out of China after the country ceased all foreign adoptions.
Fiona Serrano paper prize
10/11/24
Fiona Serrano, a senior in the Department of History who is also majoring in two other subjects, has won one of two 2024 Nels Andrew Cleven Founder’s Prizes awarded by the National Office of Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) for her paper “Stalin's War on Women: Gendered Violence in the Gulag.”
Hal Langfur Honored with the 2024 Warren Dean Memorial Book Prize
12/20/24
Professor Hal Langfur has been named co-winner of the 2024 Warren Dean Memorial Book Prize for his recent book, "Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands."

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