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 Faculty Service. The College’s press release about this honor is here.
Additionally, Adjunct Lecturer Todd Goehle was awarded the Joseph M. O’Brien Award for Excellence in Part Time Teaching. Todd is finishing his PhD at SUNY Binghamton this year and has been teaching classes for the department for the past several years (he is also an alumnus of the college).
Professor Emilye Crosby also won the Oral History Association’s 2013 Article Award for her work on “White Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi.,” which appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of Oral History Review. The College press release about Professor Crosby’s award is here.
