Recent News

PhD Candidate, Brandon Burger is the recipient of the 2023 Yearley Award. The History Department established the award in honor of Professor Clifton Yearley. Professor Yearley taught in the History Department from 1966-1992, and served as chair from 1973-79. The award consists of a $1000 scholarship to be awarded to an advanced PhD student of exceptional academic merit and financial need. 

The late Prof. William Sheridan Allen's influential 1966 German language publication, Das haben wir nicht gewollt! Dienationalsozialistische Machtergreifung in einer Kleinstadt 1930 bis 1945, is being republished! (English title translation: We didn't want that! – The National Socialist seizure of power in a small town 1930-1945). Read the full article on HNA.

Dr. Phillip Guingona (PhD '15) created a curricular module called “Unsovereign Space,” soon to be published by the History for the 21 Century Project.

Dr. Violetta Ravagnoli (PhD '15) contributed an essay on teaching about East Asia via graphic history books in the fall 2022 edition of the World History Bulletin, a publication of the World History Association.

Dr. Paul Rodell (MA '82, PhD '92) recently co-edited with Dr. Cathy Skidmore-Hess a Special Report, The Global South and Ukraine. The report is available for free download from Georgia Southern University.

Dr. Molly Giblin (BA '03 and MA '05) was recently named the new Director of Programs for Princeton in Asia. In this role, Molly will lead the development, implementation, and improvement of PiA’s three programs: the core fellowship program for recent graduates, the Carriebright fellowship for recent alumni, and summer internships for Princeton undergraduates.

Prof. Hal Langfur published a new book, Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands with Stanford University Press!

On October 17, 2022 UB welcomed 34 VITAL Scholars (UB’s Visiting Future Faculty program). Of the 34 outstanding scholars 5 are PhD candidates in History. During their weeklong visit the VITAL Scholars will participate in workshops and events in the Department of History. The Department of History is pleased to welcome:

Professor Andreas Daum has published an online article with extensive biographical documentation on Georg Iggers, former SUNY Distinguished Professor, who taught for over three decades in our History Department; see “Georg Iggers,” in Deutsche Biographie.

Prof. Ndubueze Mbah has published a new article, "'Wives Wishing to Join Their Husbands': Colonial Forgery, Gender Legibility, and Labor Migration in West Africa" in the Ocotber 2022 volume of History in Africa journal.