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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 3h

Tickets are still available! Join Prof Erik Seeman at Forest Lawn on Sat October 11 to learn about the history of why the cemetery is so beautiful, with winding paths, picturesque gardens, and rolling hills. Tickets available here: forest-lawn.com/event/forest... 🗃️

Forest Lawn Chapel Chat with Dr. Erik Seeman - Forest Lawn - Buffalo, NY

Join us as we welcome Dr. Erik R. Seeman, UB [...]

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 5d

Join us out at the fire pit next week for our annual Fall Social! 🎃 #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubuffalo

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 6d

✨ Student spotlight! ✨ Meet Vivienne O'Hara, a senior History & Social Studies Education major from Orchard Park! She loves studying 20th century Britain & Ireland and plans to teach, then go into admin to support teachers and create equitable learning environments. 🍎 #ubuffalo #historymajor

Student spotlight featuring Vivienne O'Hara standing on a deck with fall foliage in background, wearing beige sweater and baseball cap

"Student Vivienne O'Hara kneeling outdoors with her dog in a forest setting, alongside text about studying history at University at Buffalo"

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 9d

📚 New faculty book alert! In Birth Politics, Ogechukwu E. Williams examines childbirth in Nigeria from the colonial era to the present to consider the complex relationships between traditional midwives, biomedical maternities & faith-based birthing homes. @hopkinspress.bsky.social #ubuffalo #histmed

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 12d

Check out the amazing visual essay written by Dr. Claire Schen & her daughter, Maddy Cherr, in the most recent issue of the American Historical Review! You can see a preview of the essay here, but you can read the whole thing at the link! #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 14d

📚 New faculty book alert! Dr. Rembis "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP) uses asylum inmates' own writing to reveal hidden histories of American asylums. In this book, Rembis shows how "mad writers" shaped understanding of madness. #dishist #ubartsciences @oxunipress.bsky.social

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome Dr. Genie Yoo, our newest History faculty! Dr. Yoo joins us from Princeton where she earned her PhD in 2022 & a postdoc at Dumbarton Oaks. Scholar of plant knowledge in Indonesia's "spice islands." Welcome to Buffalo, Dr. Yoo! #ubuffalo #ubtrueblue @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 19d

New faculty book alert! Dr. Jenifer Barclay's new volume Cripping the Archive, co-edited with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, is out now from @illinoispress.bsky.social! This important text considers how and why disabilities are underrepresented, erased, or distorted in the historical record. #dishist

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Student spotlight!✨ Brennan Spruck, History & Global Affairs major from Cold Spring, NY! Originally wanted Aerospace Engineering for his Air Force pilot dreams, but discovered history was perfect too. ✈️ #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubtrueblue #airforce

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 26d

Prof Erik Seeman is giving a talk soon at Forest Lawn Cemetery! Join him at Forest Lawn on October 11 to learn about the history of why the cemetery is so beautiful, with winding paths, picturesque gardens, and rolling hills. Tickets available here: forest-lawn.com/event/forest... 🗃️

Forest Lawn Chapel Chat with Dr. Erik Seeman - Forest Lawn - Buffalo, NY

Join us as we welcome Dr. Erik R. Seeman, UB [...]

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · 26d

✨Student spotlight!✨ Victoria is a junior History major from Brooklyn. She is well traveled - she’s been to 16 countries! Victoria is thinking about a law career & recommends everyone take a class on history you don’t already know. We agree 😉 #ubuffalo #ubartsandsciences #historymajor #ubtrueblue

A student spotlight graphic featuring Victoria Tan, a junior history major. The image shows Victoria, a young Asian woman with long dark hair wearing a blue striped shirt, standing in what appears to be an ornate historical church or cathedral with Byzantine-style architecture, elaborate ceiling frescoes, and golden lighting. The graphic has a blue background with decorative white and teal stars, and Victoria's photo is framed in a white scalloped border.

A University at Buffalo Department of History student spotlight for Victoria Tan. The graphic features a blue background with polka dot patterns and includes Victoria's photo showing her taking a mirror selfie while holding a black cat named Guppi. The text provides details about Victoria's background (from Brooklyn, NY, Malaysian and Chinese heritage), her favorite classes (20th Century Britain and Crime and Scandal), favorite history subjects (Modern Britain, Asia, Renaissance Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, China and Hong Kong), career plans in law, and advice for history students about the importance of reading and studying diverse histories including Native American and Asian history.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sasha Pack found this 1811 letterhead while doing research in Spain this summer, written when Napoleon's brother Joseph ruled Spain. He claims authority by the grace of God AND by Constitution of the State - that was new and controversial! This kicked off a century of political chaos & 3 civil wars!

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey students, Prof Andreas Daum has added a new class for this semester! This fascinating online class fulfills the HIS seminar requirement. There's still room in the course, so add *Berlin: Urban Modernity & Political Change* to your fall schedule today!

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 18

Prof Handley-Cousins was in Gettysburg this summer to visit the Visitor's Center museum & recently reopened Little Round Top, where intense fighting took place on July 2, 1863. While there, she made sure to pose with this quote by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who she has researched & written about!

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 14

Erik Seeman had a very exciting summer of travel! He visited both Beijing, China - where he taught a course on "America to 1763"- and Erfurt, Germany - where he presented a paper at a symposium called “Nachts auf dem Friedhof” (The Cemetery at Night).

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 11

More History professor travels! Gene Zubovich did research in the National Library of Finland! Zubovich is researching American evangelical encounters with former-Soviet peoples after the USSR's collapse as part of a book project on the global history of the US culture wars.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 8

Save the date! Prof Hani Khafipour's book "Mantle of the Sufi Kings
Political Sufism and the Rise of Early Modern Iran" is coming out this November!! You can see more details & preorder your copy here:

Mantle of the Sufi Kings

Cambridge Core - Middle East Studies - Mantle of the Sufi Kings

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 6

This summer, Dr. Katherine Zubovich traveled to beautiful Tartu, Estonia to research in the National Archives. Tartu was founded in the medieval era, but the archive is in this brand new building with a maze-like facade, designed to reflect the ‘dents, twists and turns, and triumphs of research’!

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Aug 4

Associate Prof Claire Schen is having a busy summer as the new Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergrad Education! Claire is leading UB's vision & support for undergrad research at UB, working to foster learning through research, creative activity and scholarship for all undergrads.

UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · Jun 9

Prof. Erik Seeman is out with another article! You can read "Religion in Boston’s 1721 Smallpox Epidemic: Disease and Devotion in Social Context" in Religion and American Culture in the Winter 2024 issue. It's another piece from his work in progress on the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston.

an old Puritan tombstone with a deaths head on the top and scrolls down the sides. in the center the carving reads "Here Lyes the Body of Mehetable Hayward, aged 34 yeras Died Nov " and then the rest of the carving is obscured by the grass.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · May 13

#skystorians #AHA

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · May 13

Commencement season brings endings and new beginnings. We recently celebrated the career of Professor Liana Vardi, researcher, teacher, former director of graduate studies, and advocate for faculty governance. Three AHR articles in her career as well as the books picture below. We shall miss her!

Professor Vardi looking serious listening to the celebration of her academic career at UB. Short hair, wearing a green sweater, with a finished picnic in front of her, the dark wood paneling of the Parkside Lodge in one of Buffalo's Olmsted Parks behind her.

Cover showing a scene of peasant life in early modern France with the title The Land and the Loom: Peasants and Profit in Northern France, 1680-1800, by Liana Vardi.

Cover image of "The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment" by Liana Vardi, with image of a physiocrat from the early modern period sitting as his desk with papers, writing implements, books, and a pensive look on his face.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · May 8

Undergraduate Honors student Fiona Serrano shared her work on women, revolution, and socialism in Russia and the Soviet Union. @reallyblxndes.bsky.social Advised by @kzubovich.bsky.social

Serrano smiling, wearing a black top and pants with a grey sweater, standing next to her title slide on the screen, reading Beneath the Hammer and Sickle.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · May 8

Undergraduate Honors student Hunter Schoenhardt presented his StoryMaps Honors project on the Olmsted Parks in Buffalo that also drew on his public history internship experience. Advised by @deodorantone.bsky.social

Schoenhardt, wearing a plaid flannel shirt and smiling, standing by the home page for his StoryMaps site reading, Lungs of the City.

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UB History @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social · May 8

Master's student Aaron Vener presented his research on Jewish resilience and advocacy for civil rights in the twentieth century. Showing off the UB spirit, too! Advised by @sarahbelle721.bsky.social

Vener ready to present his work wearing a dark suit and University at Buffalo knit cap with podium to his side and window in the background.

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