Neil P. Buffett
- Buffett is currently finishing a dissertation titled “Black, White, and Green: High School Student Activism in the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements, 1945-1975” under the direction of Dr. Christopher Sellers. In addition to his research and writing, Buffett serves as a part-time Academic Advisor in the university's Academic Advising Center, and periodically serves the Department of History as an adjunct lecturer. Throughout his years at Stony Brook, Buffett has taught a variety of courses, including "U.S. Cities and Suburbs in the 20th Century," "20th Century Social Movements: Civil Rights, Environmentalism, and Environmental Justice," "Suburbanization in International Perspective," "SBU 101: Introduction to Stony Brook for Transfer Students," "EXT 488: Academic Peer Advisor Internship Seminar," as well as "American Civilization II, 1877-Present," (at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.) Prior to beginning doctoral studies at Stony Brook, Buffett attended and graduated from Clinton Community College and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, NY, as well as the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY where he earned his Associates, Bachelors, and Masters Degrees, respectively.
- E-Mail
- nbuffett@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
- Office
- S334 SBS
- Phone
- 631-632-8994
- Fax
- Research Interests
- 20th Century U.S. History, specializing in social movements, social movement theory, urban/suburban history, race, and the environment.
- Publications
- (1.) “We Were Pretty Gung-ho; We Were Going to Save the World”: High School Student Activism in Defense of Long Island’s Nissequogue River, 1970-1979. (Forthcoming, Fall 2009) Long Island Historical Journal;
(2.) Academic Peer Review of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast by Connie Y. Chiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. (Forthcoming, Spring 2010) Journal of Social History.
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Selected Presentations: (1.) July 10-July 12, 2009: "Divided Communities: High School Student Activism in the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements, 1969-1974" at the 2009 Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference titled Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective. University of California at Berkeley; (2.) June 9, 2007: (In my absence) Edythe Ann Quinn, Ph.D. presented Neil P. Buffett's "A River’s Place: High School Student Activism and Environmental Protection on Long Island, 1956-1974" at the 28th Conference on New York State History, Cooperstown, New York; (3.) March 2004: "Suburban Civil Rights: The North Brookhaven League of Women Voters in the Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1968" at the 13th Annul Milton Plesur Conference: Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern Scholarship. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; (4.) March 29, 2003: "Unjust Justice: The Fugitive Slave Law and Black Abolitionism in the United States" at the Fifteenth Annual Graduate History Forum. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina; (5.) April 19, 2002: "Despotic Friend: Haiti’s Francois Duvalier and the United States: 1957-1963" at the Third Annual Cold War Conference at George Washington University. Washington, D.C.