✨ Student spotlight!✨ Elaina Kernan is a double major in History & Poli Sci. Her fave class was US Women's History w/Dr. H-C. Elaina plans to go into law & loves traveling! She's studied in Paris & hopes to study in London soon. In her spare time, Elaina is known for baking cakes! 🎂 #ubuffalo

Happening soon! Dr. Ogechukwu Williams is delivering the 18th Annual Chris Gray Memorial Lecture at Florida International University at 1 pm ET TODAY! Her talk is titled "Recasting Authority" will be livestreamed - register using the link in our bio!

Happening tomorrow! The 2nd Annual Moti Lal and Kamla Rustgi Lecture on India will be delivered by Prakash Kumar of Penn State University. Join us at 3:30 pm in O'Brian 112 for this important lecture. #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences

Our faculty is EXCELLENT! At UB's Celebration of Faculty & Staff Academic Excellence last week, Victoria Wolcott won a Chancellor's Award for Scholarship, Sarah Handley-Cousins a Chancellor's Award for Teaching & Gene Zubovich was honored for winning an NEH fellowship. Congratulations! 🎉 #ubuffalo

✨ Meet our Faculty!✨ Dr. Robin Mitchell is a College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at UB History. A dedicated mentor & teacher, Dr. Mitchell is also scholar of race, gender & sexuality in 19th century France and the Afro-French world. #ubuffalo #doinghistory

Wishing you a very spooky Halloween, history nerds! #historymajor #ubuffalo

Happening this afternoon! Join us for a celebration of our colleague Mike Rembis's new book, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum! Happening at 3 pm in Park 532. Also streaming on Zoom - use QR code or email Sarah H-C for the link!

Last week, the City Historian of Buffalo Lindsey Lauren Visser & Director of the Grosvenor History Room at the Buffalo Central Library,Susan Buttaccio visited Sarah Handley-Cousins's Historical Writing class to talk about doing local history. It was a great conversation! #ubuffalo #historymajor

Days are shorter, temps are cooler - time to start thinking about those winter courses! We have some awesome choices this year. #ubuffalo #historymajor #ubartsandsciences

Join us on Oct 31 for a celebratory conversation about Dr. Mike Rembis's Writing Mad Lives in the Asylum. Rembis will be joined by Dr. Rachel Da Silveira Gorman, who will offer commentary on the book & on disability history. This is a hybrid event! Reach out for the link. #ubuffalo #dishist

Winter course registration is open now! Need a seminar? Consider HIS 460: The War on Drugs with Andrew Pothier. Students will explore how government efforts to crack down on drug use have almost always been connected to race, gender, and sexuality; immigration, poverty & crime. #ubuffalo

Students in Dr. Mitchell & Dr. Zubovich's Historical Inquiry class recently visited the UB Special Collections for hands-on experience with research! Even as digital collections become more common, navigating a real archive is an essential skill for historians. #ubartsandsciences #ublibraries

Have a restful Fall Break, #UBHistory!

✨Student spotlight!✨ Eden Johnson is a double History & Political Science major planning to become a JAG attorney then criminal defense lawyer. She balances 3 jobs, teaches in Honors Colloquium, leads Phi Alpha Delta, and is VP of Sisters In Law. Good luck on your LSAT, Eden! ⚖️

Happening today! Join us at 3 pm in Park 532 for a celebration of Ogechukwu Williams' new book, "Birth Politics: Colonial Power, Medical Pluralism, and Maternity in Nigeria." Dr. Williams will be joined by Dr. Saheed Aderinto for the conversation. #histmed #ubuffalo

Students in Dr. Mitchell & Dr. Zubovich's Historical Inquiry class recently visited the UB Special Collections for hands-on experience with research! Even as digital collections become more common, navigating a real archive is an essential skill for historians. #ubartsandsciences #ublibraries

Tickets are still available! Join Prof Erik Seeman at Forest Lawn on Sat October 11 to learn about the history of why the cemetery is so beautiful, with winding paths, picturesque gardens, and rolling hills. Tickets available here: forest-lawn.com/event/forest... 🗃️

Join us out at the fire pit next week for our annual Fall Social! 🎃 #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubuffalo

✨ Student spotlight! ✨ Meet Vivienne O'Hara, a senior History & Social Studies Education major from Orchard Park! She loves studying 20th century Britain & Ireland and plans to teach, then go into admin to support teachers and create equitable learning environments. 🍎 #ubuffalo #historymajor

📚 New faculty book alert! In Birth Politics, Ogechukwu E. Williams examines childbirth in Nigeria from the colonial era to the present to consider the complex relationships between traditional midwives, biomedical maternities & faith-based birthing homes. @hopkinspress.bsky.social #ubuffalo #histmed

Check out the amazing visual essay written by Dr. Claire Schen & her daughter, Maddy Cherr, in the most recent issue of the American Historical Review! You can see a preview of the essay here, but you can read the whole thing at the link! #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

📚 New faculty book alert! Dr. Rembis "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP) uses asylum inmates' own writing to reveal hidden histories of American asylums. In this book, Rembis shows how "mad writers" shaped understanding of madness. #dishist #ubartsciences @oxunipress.bsky.social

Welcome Dr. Genie Yoo, our newest History faculty! Dr. Yoo joins us from Princeton where she earned her PhD in 2022 & a postdoc at Dumbarton Oaks. Scholar of plant knowledge in Indonesia's "spice islands." Welcome to Buffalo, Dr. Yoo! #ubuffalo #ubtrueblue @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

✨ Student spotlight!✨ Brennan Spruck, History & Global Affairs major from Cold Spring, NY! Originally wanted Aerospace Engineering for his Air Force pilot dreams, but discovered history was perfect too. ✈️ #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubtrueblue #airforce

Prof Erik Seeman is giving a talk soon at Forest Lawn Cemetery! Join him at Forest Lawn on October 11 to learn about the history of why the cemetery is so beautiful, with winding paths, picturesque gardens, and rolling hills. Tickets available here: forest-lawn.com/event/forest... 🗃️

✨Student spotlight!✨ Victoria is a junior History major from Brooklyn. She is well traveled - she’s been to 16 countries! Victoria is thinking about a law career & recommends everyone take a class on history you don’t already know. We agree 😉 #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubtrueblue

Sasha Pack found this 1811 letterhead while doing research in Spain this summer, written when Napoleon's brother Joseph ruled Spain. He claims authority by the grace of God AND by Constitution of the State - that was new and controversial! This kicked off a century of political chaos & 3 civil wars!

Hey students, Prof Andreas Daum has added a new class for this semester! This fascinating online class fulfills the HIS seminar requirement. There's still room in the course, so add *Berlin: Urban Modernity & Political Change* to your fall schedule today!

Prof Handley-Cousins was in Gettysburg this summer to visit the Visitor's Center museum & recently reopened Little Round Top, where intense fighting took place on July 2, 1863. While there, she made sure to pose with this quote by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who she has researched & written about!

Erik Seeman had a very exciting summer of travel! He visited both Beijing, China - where he taught a course on "America to 1763"- and Erfurt, Germany - where he presented a paper at a symposium called “Nachts auf dem Friedhof” (The Cemetery at Night).

More History professor travels! Gene Zubovich did research in the National Library of Finland! Zubovich is researching American evangelical encounters with former-Soviet peoples after the USSR's collapse as part of a book project on the global history of the US culture wars.

Save the date! Prof Hani Khafipour's book "Mantle of the Sufi Kings Political Sufism and the Rise of Early Modern Iran" is coming out this November!! You can see more details & preorder your copy here:

This summer, Dr. Katherine Zubovich traveled to beautiful Tartu, Estonia to research in the National Archives. Tartu was founded in the medieval era, but the archive is in this brand new building with a maze-like facade, designed to reflect the ‘dents, twists and turns, and triumphs of research’!

Associate Prof Claire Schen is having a busy summer as the new Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergrad Education! Claire is leading UB's vision & support for undergrad research at UB, working to foster learning through research, creative activity and scholarship for all undergrads.

Prof. Erik Seeman is out with another article! You can read "Religion in Boston’s 1721 Smallpox Epidemic: Disease and Devotion in Social Context" in Religion and American Culture in the Winter 2024 issue. It's another piece from his work in progress on the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston.

Commencement season brings endings and new beginnings. We recently celebrated the career of Professor Liana Vardi, researcher, teacher, former director of graduate studies, and advocate for faculty governance. Three AHR articles in her career as well as the books picture below. We shall miss her!

The Symposium for Historical Research took place this afternoon. Master's students and undergraduates presented their historical research and, yes, there was cake! Thanks to @parisnoire.bsky.social for organizing the event to hear and celebrate student work. @ubuffalo.bsky.social #UBuffalo 🧵 1/7

Our research symposium is this Thursday! Please join us to celebrate the hard work that our students have done this semester in their independent research projects. Hope to see you there!

Huge congratulations to Fiona Serrano, the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Senior for not one, not two, but THREE departments. Fiona was selected by the History, English, and Global Gender Studies departments. We're so proud of you, @reallyblxndes.bsky.social!

An update from Dr. Sarah Handley-Cousins on recognition for the work of Nursing Clio. Congratulations @sarahbelle721.bsky.social and @nursingclio.bsky.social !

End of semester means we are starting to see students' exciting projects come together in seminars and classes. Here's one based in book making.

Catching up on some of the semester's activities here in the Department of History at UB. Thanks @jakenewsome.bsky.social and @graceshaffer.bsky.social

Are you registered? Today's the deadline! We want to celebrate with you, seniors -- please join us! Reach out to Dr. Daum. with any questions.

Only a couple more days left to register! C'mon, you know you want to see your profs in their wizard robes. Register by Monday so we can celebrate you!

Join us for our annual History Research Symposium!

Congrats to History & Social Studies Ed student Russell Bassarath for being named to the Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Program! As one of only 20 ambassadors, Russell is increasing awareness about the Fulbright program & sharing his experiences with other UB Students. www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/storie...

Congratulations to Professor Erik Seeman for his latest article, "Precarity, Prosperity, and Boston's Death Economy in the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic," in New England Quarterly! This is the first piece of Dr. Seeman's work in progress, “Boston’s Pox of 1721: A People’s History.” shorturl.at/lBLS1

Join us for our annual History Research Symposium!

Seniors, register now! We want to celebrate with you! Registration link is in the email - reach out if you need it again!