Faculty News
Congratulations...
Don Grinde was one of the recipients of the prestigious $3.1 million Integrative Graduate Education Research and Traineeship (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation, which will fund the study of Western New York’s ecosystems and waterways.
Theresa McCarthy was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in American Studies, specializing in Native American Studies. She is also the Associate Producer of Sewatokwa’tshera’t: The Dish With One Spoon, a Haudenosaunee Land Rights educational documentary DVD (published by the Six Nations/ Haudenosaunee Confederacy, March 2008).
Carl Nightingale’s article, “Before Race Mattered: Geographies of the Color Line in Early Colonial Madras and New York,” appeared in the February 2008 issue of the American Historical Review.
Theresa Runstedtler won the Sylvia Arden Boone Prize for the best dissertation on African American culture at Yale University. During the fall of 2008, she will be working fulltime on her book manuscript, “Journeymen: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson,” thanks to a UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship.
Kari Winter will continue her innovative research on transatlantic slavery thanks to a UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship for the fall of 2008. Her article entitled, “Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a Global Economy,” was recently published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts 29.2-3 (2007).
Please join the department in welcoming Cynthia Wu as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, specializing in Asian American Studies.