It’s been a busy semester in the SUNY Geneseo Department of History! Here’s some of what our faculty has been up to over the past few months. Catherine Johnson Adams (Associate Professor, U.S. History) was appointed to a term as co-chair of the Black Studies program, together with Maria Lima …
We’ve had a busy few months here in the History Department! Here’s a round-up of some of the individual and collective achievements of our faculty. In October, SUNY Geneseo Provost and Professor of History Stacey Robertson opened the annual Historians Against Slavery Conference at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. …
Professor Michael Leroy Oberg’s revised textbook, “Native America: A History, Second Edition,” hit college bookstore shelves just in time for the new academic year. Oberg, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of history at Geneseo, says that the new edition includes expanded discussions on the law and native history since World War …
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 …
We have another publication to celebrate – Michael Oberg’s Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams has now been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. This is Oberg’s sixth major book and will be followed later this year by a monograph on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua. Professor …
The department congratulates Professor Justin Behrend on the publication of his book, Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War. Focusing on the lives of African-Americans in the Natchez District of Mississippi, Behrend’s work reconstructs the ways that ex-slaves involved themselves in democratic actions in …
Emilye Crosby’s essay on the historical background to the new film Selma has been featured in a number of different places this month. With commemorations of the Selma to Montgomery March and the 1964 Voting Rights Act coming up later this year, Emilye’s work serves as a good critical introduction …
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 …
The department congratulates Professor Tze-ki Hon on the publication of his new book Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes). The book is co-authored by Geoffrey Raymond and is available from Oxford University Press, with more detail available here. Professor Hon is one of the department’s most active scholars, and …
The department congratulates two colleagues on recent publications. In March 2013, Tze-ki’s Hon’s monograph entitled Revolution as Restoration: Guocui Xuebao and China’s Path to Modernity, 1905-1911 was released by Brill. The publicity page is available here. Additionally, Justin Behrend’s article entitled “Facts and Memories: John R. Lynch and the Revising …
