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!
History PhD student Jenna Labbie has been named a 2022 Social Impact Fellow. With this fellowship, Jenna will team up with a graduate student from the School of Business and another from the School of Social Work. Together, this trio will spend eight weeks over the summer working with the Family Justice Center of Erie County. Their goal will be to "advance understanding around how restorative justice may be applied to domestic violence services, ultimately helping the agency become the first domestic violence service provider in the area to adopt these practices.” ( Quote from Social Impact Fellows Webpage).
Department of History students were honored during UB's Annual Celebration of Student Excellence on April 27th. Department of History students were nominated for and won several prestigious UB, SUNY, and national awards this spring.
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. 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 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.
Last Friday, March 11th, the Department of History held a ceremony honoring our recent Early Recognition Award Winners. Congratulations, Eoin Burns, Josephine Dunn, Julia Giacona, Daniel Hayden, Jack Phinney, Darcy Winter, and Layba Zaman! Read more about their prize winning essays here: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/.../Fall2021AwardWinner...
The scholarly organization Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) has presented its 2022 Academic Excellence Award to Professor Qiang Fang of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, for his book The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear(Amsterdam University Press, April 2021). Professor Fang earned his PhD at UB. Congratulations Dr. Fang!