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 Emilye Crosby appeared on a recent episode of WXXI’s Need to Know, discussing how and why educators should address the Black Lives Matter movement in the classroom. Professor Crosby has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1995. She studies African-American history and the history of civil rights. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In October, the History Department hosted the annual Bill Gohlman Memorial Lecture in Global History. We had Tim Nicholson (class of 2004 and currently Assistant Professor at SUNY-Delhi) on campus to speak on “East African Students in a Post-Imperial World”. We had terrific student turnout for an impressive presentation on Tim’s research …
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 …
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 …
