New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie recently recommended Professor Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. “It’s just a wonderful history,” he asserted. “A great perspective on…thinking through America in the 20th century from the perspective of this singular event that was Hurricane Katrina.”
You can read the full article here.
Prof. Manisha Sinha was recently interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics of discussion include President Trump and Project 2025. Open post to listen.
Professor Rozwadowski’s research on Arthur C. Clark and ocean exploration in the second half of the 20th century has been featured in the September 26, 2025 blog post of JSTOR Daily.
Blog post:
Arthur C. Clarke’s Scuba Adventures and Ocean Frontiers – JSTOR Daily
Article:
Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier on JSTOR
Helen Rozwadowski is Professor of History and Maritime Studies at UConn’s Avery Point campus. The talk, titled “Fathoming: How History Can Help Save the Oceans” will be delivered at 12:30 p.m. in Leonard Hall on UNE’s Biddeford, ME campus. Further details can be found here.
She will be presented with the medallion by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History at their 110th meeting in Atlanta later this month.
Professor Sinha appeared on the podcast to discuss her recent book The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic.
This summer, Kaitlyn Hiis LaRose ’26 (CLAS), ’26 (ED), ’27 MA focused on cleaning public beaches in Connecticut and assessing the debris. For more on their project, please see the full story in UConn Today.
Professor Andy Horowitz, author of the prize-winning book Katrina: A History, 1915–2015, has been consulted widely around Katrina’s 20th anniversary. Listen to him on NPR Morning Edition, and read his essay “Katrina’s America” in a special issue of the journal Southern Cultures that he guest edited.
On August 8th, Katharine Beene successfully defended her dissertation, “Women’s Acquisition and Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Ireland, 1600-1750”.
From the abstract:
This dissertation expands understandings of scientific and political advancement in Ireland from 1600-1750 by examining the often-overlooked informal learning networks of early modern Irish women, focusing on their correspondence and kinship relationships. It reveals how these women were not merely passive recipients, but active contributors to the formation and distribution of foundational knowledge in fields like medicine, science, mathematics, and politics across Western Europe. Early modern Ireland’s experience as a colony offers valuable insights into how colonial systems shape the transmission of knowledge. This dissertation argues that despite the limitations imposed by formal colonial controls on access to education, women’s informal networks played a unique role in the transfer of knowledge… Investigating women in Ireland knowledge acquisition in a kingdom-colony context provides a methodological approach to investigate informal networks and the circulation of knowledge among marginalized communities.
Congratulations to Katharine Beene on this impressive achievement!
Manisha Sinha was cited in a recent piece by Jamelle Bouie, which appeared in The New York Times on August 6. In the article Bouie adopts Sinha’s analogy of French republicanism, and follows her framework of different American Republics.
You can check the piece out here:
“The Death of the Fourth American Republic,” Jamelle Bouie