Drake Memorial Library is hosting a True Crime Series from October 30 to November 13. Join us for a true crime author, established crime reporters, poster session, murder mystery, and flash fiction.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer (Associate Professor of History) published “The Transatlantic Ballad of Alan Lomax” this June. The multimedia essay explores how a “reverse” transatlantic experience produced unexpected transnational maps and theories of song and culture.
The SUNY Chancellor announced the Inaugural Dr. Virginia Radley SUNY Fellow is Dr. Elizabeth Garner Masarik. She was selected to research the significant impact women have had on the development of New York State.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer is conducting archival research for two projects at the Library of Congress. He will continue his research at Brockport after his Summer 2023 Fellowship.
Victoria Greenfield, a current MA History student,recently accepted an offer of admission to a PhD program at Syracuse University. She will continue her research on the intersectionality of race, class, and gender in 20th-century America under the guidance of Dr. Margaret Thompson
Angela Thompsell’s article “A credible undertaking”: apathy and anti-apartheid activism at SUNY Brockport” was recently published by The Journal of South African and American Studies (March 2023).
Joseph Golden, graduate student in the Department of History, is co-editor and writer for The Journal of Engaged Research. Issue 4 of the journal is dedicated to “feminisms” publishing manifestos from spring 2022 Feminist Theory student scholars.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer, Assistant Professor of History, presented a virtual talk, “Alan Lomax’s Transatlantic Ballad: The Modern & the Traditional in Alan Lomax’s Song Performance Style Studies” at the XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, held in Poznań, Poland.
Professor Paul Moyer, Department of History, recently published “Diabolical Duos: Witch Spouses in Early New England” in Early American Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 3 (Summer 2022): 371-406.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer, Assistant Professor of History, visited St. Bonaventure University to consult about digital and public history/humanities work as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant focused on “Collaborative Pathways for Inquiry-Based Education: Piloting a Humanities Education Partnership.”
Dr. Carl Davila, Department of History, published his article, “Prophet-Piety in the Moroccan Nūba Tradition,” in the newly-released anthology, In Praise of the Prophet: Forms of Piety as Reflected in Arabic Literature.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer and Dr. James Spiller join thirteen SUNY scholars in the Adirondacks as part of a federally funded effort to reimagine the US history curriculum across the SUNY system and for K-12 teachers in New York State.
History students worked as editorial assistants on a book roundtable for the blog of the Society for US Intellectual History, gaining skills in historical analysis, research, editing, multimedia publication, and project management.
Meredith Roman in the Department of History published a peer-reviewed article titled “Soul to Soul: Americans’ Discovery of Yelena Khanga and the Promise of Russian-American Relations” in the May 2022 edition of the Journal of Russian-American Studies.
Carly Fox, a graduate student in the Social Studies Adolescence Inclusive Education Generalist Program, was nominated by Dr. Jie Zhang and received the Rochester Area Colleges Continuing Education 2021/2022 Outstanding Adult Student Award.
Dr. Michael J. Kramer, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, serves as chair and panelist for an online panel titled “Digital Cultural History: A Virtual Roundtable” presented at the 2022 Organization of American Historians Conference.
Dr. Elizabeth Masarik, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, is running a workshop at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Boston, MA on academic podcasting.
Michael J. Kramer, Assistant Professor of History, writes about the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project as multimodal digital public history at NCPH’s History@Work Blog.
Olivia Langa has spent two semesters as a research assistant for Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s NEH-funded Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, a digital public history project documenting a folk music festival that took place at the University of California from 1958 to 1970.
