Brooklyn College History Department

The Founding Fathers solved some problems, ignored others, and created new ones--but they also warned us about the problems we’re facing now. For an exploration on the Revolutionary Era that’s relevant to us today, enroll in HIST 3420 with Prof. Carp this fall!

class time: M/W12

Leadership, Legacy, and the Enduring Power of History - Brooklyn College A Conversation With Recently Retired Professor David Troyansky.

"Whenever we speak of liberty and constitutionalism, inequality and struggle, or work and progress, we are rooting ourselves in history."
Interview with retiring @BklynCollege411 professor & our former chair, David Troyansky.
www.brooklyn.edu/best-of-bc/l...

Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method

Kudos to Prof. Mancia, whose new book, Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method, has been published by Cambridge Element.
Open access at the link below, through the 23rd!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Prof. Bui will be attending "South Vietnam: Endings, Beginnings, Continuities" workshop at Dartmouth College at the end of May.

Prof. Mancia's latest work is available for two weeks open access:
engage.metmuseum.org/events/educa...

Prof. Mancia's latest work is available for two weeks open access:
engage.metmuseum.org/events/educa...

From Performing the Premodern event at @bcthinkers.bsky.social HSS expo.

Dean Napoli took members of the Historical Society to Ellis Island.

On tap for Thursday at 12.30--mark your calendars!

The Brooklyn College Historical Society will screen the film Ghare Baire (The Home and the World, directed by Satyajit Ray, 1985) this Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:30-2:30 pm, 1112 Boylan Hall. Lunch will be served.

Prof. Banerjee will moderate the event.

Mark your calendars--event this Thursday at 12.30!
More info below.

Mark your calendars!!

Tomorrow, 12:30-2 pm, 1112 Boylan: on occasion of Women's History month, Prof. Banerjee will give a talk for the BC Historical Society about her research on native Indian female caregivers.

There will be pizza lunch for all.

More info below.

Kudos to Prof. Mancia, who was awarded a fellowship from the Committee on Globalization & Social Change at The Graduate Center.

The theme in 2025-2026 is "frequencies," relevant to her work on monasticism.

History prof Lauren Mancia took her class to The Met Cloisters with Educator Emerita Dr. Nancy Wu. The class also met with extraordinary medievalist Dr. Caroline Walker Bynum (Columbia, Institute of Advanced Study).

Mark your calendars!!
Prof. Banerjee will be speaking before the Historical Society on March 25th--food & beverage to be served.
More info below:

Congrats to departmental alums:
Jeremy Caba will be starting as a policy analyst at the mayor's office.
Steven Vavasis will be joining the GC History Department as a Ph.D. student.

Congrats to Prof. Banerjee--who has been accepted into the BRES program as a faculty member at the Graduate Center.

Study abroad opportunity with Prof. Fishman. For more info, contact him.

Deadline is looming for student paper submissions to Clio, the Historical Society's journal. March 5 is the deadline--for more info, see below.

Brooklyn MA student Elena Kalvar gives a presentation about her MA thesis on Mother/Infant bonds in medieval Europe, as Prof. Troyansky (History), Prof. Masciandaro (English), and others look on.

The department's newest member, Prof. Bui, will be attending a "New Directions in Taiwan History" workshop at Princeton in late February.

Prof. Carp was a panelist in “State of the Field for Busy Teachers: Eve of American Revolution,” AHA Teaching Division, American Historical Association, annual meeting, New York, Jan. 2025.

Congrats to Prof. Banerjee: “Exploring Marginalities: Male Domestic Workers and Intimate Labors in Two Films on Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal, India,” in Marginalities Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Perspectives from South Asia (Routledge, 2024)

Congrats to History alums!

Nico Mak-Wasek recently received a position as an extern with the Eastern District of California.

Mark Markov received his PhD from Durham: "Wars Not Fought: Neutrality and European Navies in American Waters during the US Civil War."

Tomorrow at 5.00! Costas Library in 2405 Boylan @BklynCollege411

LANEM session with our own MA student: Elena Kalvar, "Mother-Infant Bonds in Late Medieval Europe"

Vivienne Soares, Hunter BA Art History student. "Medic, Mother, Mystic"

Mark your calendars!!

Thursday, Feb. 20, at 12.30pm

With Prof. Meyer: There will be a viewing of Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985) as an optional course meeting for History 3536 Land of the Rising Sun, on Thursday December 12, 7 PM, in Boylan 1112.

Sushi will be served. All Brooklyn College History Department students and faculty are welcome.

Interview with Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa: Winners of the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize | Request PDF Request PDF | On Nov 21, 2024, Damian Pargas and others published Interview with Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa: Winners of the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

Interview with Prof. SenGupta and her co-author, Awam Amkpa, on the Lovejoy prize!
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BC Historical Society, Prof. Banerjee will host a film Pather Panchali (Song of the Road) this Thursday, Dec. 12, 12;15-2:15 pm. All majors invited: Pizza will be served!
Boylan 1112.

Registration reminder for spring 2025!