Emilye Crosby helped organize tributes for Julian Bond at the September meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH) and the upcoming April meeting of the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Bond, who was a mentor and friend to Crosby, was a founding member of …
Professor Justin Behrend was quoted extensively in this recent article about blues musician Son House in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
For the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Emilye Crosby gave a talk on Teaching Bottom-Up history at the Library of Congress. She also developed “A Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act: ACase Study of SNCC’s work in Lowndes County and the Emergence of BlackPower,” available through Teaching …
Professor Michael Oberg’s newest book, Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, appears in print this week. Professor Oberg will be appearing at several events this year to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the Treaty. You can read more about his work and the historical and …
Continuing the tradition begun with last year’s Teachers’ Day, the department hosted fifty social studies educators from more than twenty western New York for a day of programs on Friday, 13 March. Participants attended a teaching workshop on Latin American history led by Professors Ryan Jones, a workshop on modern …
Professor Cathy Adams and Justin Behrend appeared this week on “Connections with Evan Dawson”, a radio program airing on Rochester NPR affiliate WXXI, to discuss perspectives on African-American history. Behrend’s recently-published book, Reconstructing Democracy, was discussed extensively. You can read more about the program and listen to the conversation here.
Professor Michael Oberg has been featured in a number of recent events in connection with two major forthcoming research projects on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua and the 19th century missionary Eleazer Williams. This past week, Oberg was one of the featured panelists on “WXXI Connections with Evan Dawson”, a …
We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor of History Jordan Kleiman was named as one of three Geneseo faculty to receive the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. This brings a total of seven Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching to the History Department. Congratulations! The press release …
Professor Kathy Mapes is one of the featured experts on the NPR broadcast/podcast of BackStory with the American History Guys with a segment on “The Anti-Imperialist Farmer”. You can listen to the full show at http://backstoryradio.org/shows/green-acres-2/. Congratulations!
The department extends its congratulations to the History Department’s three 2013 SUNY Chancellor’s Award recipients. Justin Behrend received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Michael Oberg received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Emilye Crosby won the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in …
