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AMNESP Fall 2023 Course AM 336 Bob Dylan: Music and Words Featured in BU Today
AMNESP Fall 2023 course AM 336 Bob Dylan: Music and Words has been featured in BU Today! Taught by Jeremy Yudkin (Music), this course examines Bob Dylan’s… More
Perri Meldon Published to Blog of the National Council of Public History
AMNESP PhD Candidate Perri Meldon was recently published to "History@Work," the blog of the National Council of Public History. The post describes… More
AMNESP Spring Course AM 501 Arctic Humanities Featured in BU Today
Arctic Humanities immerses students in the dynamic world of the circumpolar Arctic with a focus on the North American Arctic (Canada, US,… More
AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek Featured in The Brink’s Mini Explainer Video Series
AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek has been featured in The Brink's Mini Explainer video series answering the question, "Why the UK and US… More
Astrid Tvetenstrand Accepts Polly Thayer Starr Curatorial Fellowship in American Art at the Boston Athenæum
AMNESP alum Astrid Tvetenstrand (PhD '23) has accepted the Polly Thayer Starr Curatorial Fellowship in American Art at the Boston Athenæum. Congratulations,… More
Kayli Rideout Publishes Research Note in the Journal of Glass Studies
AMNESP PhD Candidate Kayli Rideout has published a research note in the most recent edition of the Journal of Glass Studies titled “Tiffany’s… More
AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek Keynote Speaker at New England American Studies Association 2024 Conference
AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek will be the keynote speaker at the New England American Studies Association's 2024 Conference "Revisiting Region: Locating the… More
Dean Lampros Publishes Book Based on Dissertation
AMNESP alum Dean Lampros (PhD '13) has published Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America with Johns Hopkins University Press,… More
Hannah Carlson Publishes Book Based on Dissertation
AMNESP alum Hannah Carlson (PhD '09) has published Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close with Algonquin Books, based… More
Betsy Walters Wins Essay Contest and Has Essay Published in New Review of Film & Television Studies
AMNESP PhD Candidate Betsy Walters won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2023 Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group Graduate Student Essay Contest!… More