Social Impact Filmmaking Program Teaches “Passion to Make a Difference”
“The impact of the events of 2020 on filmmaking will be monumental,” said Karen Offitzer, director of the undergraduate minor in filmmaking at Stony Brook and one of three co-directors...Read More
Stony Brook’s Elyse Graham Probes the Language of New Yorkers
“Everybody in New York has a story,” said Elyse Graham, associate professor in Stony Brook’s English Department, adding wryly that “every story has an element that contradicts someone else’s story.”...Read More
Michael Rubenstein Illuminates a New Field of Research: Energy Humanities
Energy humanities is a subdiscipline of the environmental humanities, with a tighter focus on the story of energy in human civilization. It arose in the early 2010s in response to...Read More
Historian Paul Kelton Tells a Tale of Two Pandemics
Paul Kelton was working on a book about the cholera pandemic of the 1830s when coronavirus emerged. “It’s been a surreal experience writing about a pandemic while one is going...Read More
Doctoral Student Yalile Suriel Wins AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
The history PhD candidate's dissertation tells the story of how universities historically weighed their desire to be productive spaces for social justice against the nation’s growing impulse toward law and order.
Two Doctoral Candidates Earn Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships
The fellowships support a year of research to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
