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Matt Pressman Wins Research Paper Prize
First year graduate student Matthew Pressman wins the History Department's “Outstanding First Year Graduate Research Paper Prize," for his paper Black and White and Red All Over? Reassessing Newspapers' Role in the Red Scare of 1919. Congratulations to him!
Graduate Sarah Westwood Wins GRAF!
Graduate student Sarah Westwood wins a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. She will be using the GRAF to conduct preliminary research in France for her dissertation on the development and evolution of the Senegalese army; the focus of her study is how Senegal became the only country in West Africa to... More
Prof. Sarah Phillips Promoted
Professor Sarah Phillips has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by the Provost and President. Congratulations! Sarah Phillips, CAS, History, specializes in environmental, agricultural and 20thcentury U.S. political history. The author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal... More
Graduating Seniors Elected To Join Phi Beta Kappa
Graduating seniors Charles Begue Fawell, Daniel Edmund Mucinskas, Caitlin Anne O'Halloran, and Muna S. Sheikh, have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Epsilon of Massachusetts Chapter at Boston University. Their election to the Society recognizes their demonstrated high level of scholarship and academic achievement in the... More
History Undergrads Win Center for the Humanities Award
Undergrads Elise Alexander and Sabrina Mullen each win a Boston University Center for the Humanities Student Award. The awards are given out to to undergraduates in their sophomore or junior year who are declared majors in a humanities department. They will be honored at a reception with the Deans... More
Aaron Hiltner Wins Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
Aaron Hiltner graduated summa cum laude and with honors in history from the Minnesota liberal arts college Gustavus Adolphus, where he also twice won the DeNault Award for best undergraduate history paper. He joined the Boston University history department as a Ph.D. student in modern American history in fall 2010. ... More
New York Times Quotes Prof. Chernock on “The First Sexual Revolution”
On April 29, 2012, the New York Times quoted Professor Arianne Chernock about a controversial new book on the history of sexuality in 18th century Britain. For more, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramerz-dabhoiwala-of-origins-of-sex-at-museum-of-sex.html?ref=arts
Prof. James Johnson Featured in Magazine
Professor James Johnson is featured in the BU Magazine Arts & Sciences for his new award winning book Venice Incognito. To view the article click here.
Prof. Brooke Blower Honored by Boston Authors Club
Prof. Brooke Blower has been honored by the Boston Authors Club for her book Becoming Americans in Paris. She will be honored in person in May at the Boston Public Library.
Modern Intellectual History April 2012 Issue Published
In addition to our regular articles and review essays, this issue of MIH features two forums. The first is on Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The second is a series of essays reflecting on the present and future of the practice of... More
