Michael Barnhart & Susan Grumet (ATC)
Department Chairs

Paul Zimansky
Director

The Department of History has a faculty of 32 distinguished researchers and teachers. Each year 12 to 15 students are admitted into the doctoral program and four to six students into the terminal master’s program. The Department has 118 full- and part-time graduate students. The department of History also offers an M.A.T. Program in Social Studies Education in conjunction with the School of Professional Development.

While the Department has strength in a number of traditional areas of historical study, it also has a long tradition of comparative, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed research. The graduate program has been structured around four areas of thematic inquiry - 1) Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction; 2) Nation–State and Civil Society; 3) Empire, Modernity, and Globalization; and 4) Environment, Science, and Health—to bring these theoretical issues to the fore and ensure that students learn
how to apply such concepts as class, gender, race, culture, power, religion, and environment in an explicit and sophisticated manner to the study of the past. To further these interests, the Department maintains close connections with the Stony Brook Humanities Institute, the doctoral program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, the Women’s Studies Program, Africana Studies, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Center for Global History, as well as the departments from which these programs draw their core faculty.

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