Faculty News
Congratulations...
Jose Buscaglia's book, Historias del Seno Mexicano (Stories of the Mexican Archipelago), was recently published in Havana (Editorial Letras Cubanas, 2009). He was also the proud recipient of an Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education at the University at Buffalo in 2007.
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 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). She also published an article titled, "Iroquoian and Iroquoianist: Anthropologists and the Haudenosaunee at Grand River," Histories of Anthropology Annual 4 (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. He is currently writing a book that examines urban racial segregation as a global historical phenomenon, under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
Theresa Runstedtler is revising her book manuscript, “Journeyman: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson,” for publication with the University of California Press. She recently published a feature article titled, "Visible Men: African American Boxers, the New Negro, and the Global Color Line," Radical History Review 103 (2009). She also has essays forthcoming in the Journal of World History and in Markings: Blackness and Global Culture, eds. Matthew Guterl and Vivian Halloran (Rutgers University Press).
Kari Winter's two latest publications include, "Slaves Under the Driveway? Exhuming Buried History in Milford and Southbury, Connecticut," Connecticut Review 30.2 (2008), and "Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a Global Economy," Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present, eds. Greg Kucich and Keith Hanley (Routledge, 2008). A UB Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship also enabled her to devote the fall 2008 semester to her book-in-progress, "Up from Antislavery: Abolition, Slave-Trading, and the American Dream." Moreover, she presented invited lectures at numerous academic and public events in Connecticut, Vermont, and New York. The most gratifying was her keynote address at the unveiling of a state historical marker honoring the life of Jeffrey Brace in Poultney, Vermont, which received international media attention.
Please join the department in welcoming our new faculty members:
Ramón Soto-Crespo, Associate Professor, specializing in Latino/a studies
Camilo Trumper, Assistant Professor, specializing in Latin American studies