Joshua B. Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, was recently presented with the 2019 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History!
Congratulations to Prof. Warren Woodfin!
QC Professor Warren Woodfin will be a 2019-20 fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC next year. Congratulations to him!
Hear Prof. Erin Wuebker on Brooklyn Paper Radio and the Brooklyn History Society Podcast!
Dr. Wuebker was recently a guest on Brooklyn Paper Radio to speak about Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York State and third in the nation, and her work researching Brooklyn health history for an upcoming exhibition at Brooklyn Historical Society. The exhibition, Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Health, will open in May.
Dr. Wuebker is also an occasional guest on the Brooklyn Historical Society Podcast, most recently in Episode 29 on “Cholera in Brooklyn.”
Congratulations to Prof. Morris Rossabi!
QC Professor Morris Rossabi has recently briefed the next U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia in DC, gave a speech on Women in Modern Mongolia st Sarah Lawrence, and a speech at Indiana University on Mongols and the Sea.
Congratulations to Prof. Kristina Richardson!
QC Professor Kristina Richardson was just announced as a recipient of an NEH summer stipend for her project, “Race, Language and Roma Culture in the Islamic Middle Ages.”
Congratulations to Prof. Katherine Antonova
QC Professor Katherine Antonova was awarded an American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar award to conduct research in St. Petersburg, Russia for six months in the summer and fall of 2019, for her project titled, “Troublesome Women: Policing Faith and Transforming Russian Elites after Napoleon.”
Prof. Rossabi's Global History for NYC 9th and 10th graders
We’re delighted to hear that Prof. Morris Rossabi’s revisions to the New York City curriculum in Global History for 9th and 10th grades are now being phased in.
Professor Sneeringer to speak about the Beatles at Monmouth University
On Nov. 10 Prof. Julia Sneeringer will be speaking at Monmouth University’s symposium on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ White Album. The subject will be receptions of the Beatles in West and East Germany in the 1960s.