The students, faculty, and alumni of the Department of History are active both as scholars and as public intellectuals. Explore these achievements to learn more about our community.
On Friday May 8, 2022, UB's Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society, inducted 39 new members! This is UB's largest cohort of new PAT students to date!
Prof. Sarah Handley-Cousins was honored at UB's annual Celebration of Faculty & Staff Excellence on Ocotber 28, 2021. Prof. Handley-Cousins was honored for winning a highly prestigious ACLS fellowship. Prof. Handley-Cousins was one of only 2 faculty in the university to be honored for winning a highly prestigious fellowship. Congratulations, Prof. Handley-Cousins!
Prof. Katehrine Zubovich has won a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend to support research for her current book project, "Picturing the Plan: Stalinist Mass Politics and the Art of Soviet Statistics."
The 2022 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence Poster Presentations was held on April 27, 2022 at the Alumni Arena. Two History students presented their Honors Theses:
Prof. Ndubueze Mbah has received a $20,000 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to support research for his second monograph project, "African Rebellious Migrants: The Forgery of Abolition and the Quest for Freedom."
The UB History Department is pleased to announced that the winner of the 2021-22 Yearley Award is Emily Bowlus-Peck. The award is given each year to one extraordinary PhD student who has advanced to the dissertation writing stage. The 2021-22 award carries a prize of $3.000.
Congratulations, UB history alum Dr. Averill Earls! Dr. Earls was awarded the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize for Best Article in Gender & Sexuality History from the North American Conference on British Studies!
