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Betsy Walters Featured in Forbes Magazine
Betsy Walters, PhD Candidate, has been featured in Forbes Magazine for her expertise on the Academy Awards. Check it out here. More
Madeline Webster to Present with Boston Preservation Alliance with the Leventhal Map & Education Center
Madeline Webster, PhD Candidate, will join Boston Preservation Alliance with the Leventhal Map & Education Center for a talk on histories of… More
Madeline Webster Featured by BU’s Initiative on Cities
Madeline Webster, PhD Candidate, has been featured in Boston University's Initiative on Cities recent publication. Check it out here. More
Madeline Webster Successfully Defends Dissertation
Dr. Madeline Webster, Ph.D., successfully defended her dissertation, "Race and Reuse: Black Historic Preservation Efforts in Boston, 1876-1976," today! Congratulations, Maddie! More
Marina Wells to be Featured in New Bedford Whaling Museum Symposium
Marina Wells, PhD Candidate, will be featured in the New Bedford Whaling Museum's The Wider World and Scrimshaw Symposium. The day-long symposium… More
Anne Boyd Receives Graduate Summer Internship at Massachusetts Historical Society
Anne Boyd, PhD Candidate, has been awarded a graduate summer internship at the Massacusetts Historical Society through Boston University's Center for the… More
Sean Case Accepted to Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference
Sean Case, PhD Candidate, has been accepted to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual conference. He will present, "A… More
Marina Wells to Participate in Graduate Student Conference at MIT
Marina Wells will participate in the Liberating Temporality and Spatiality graduate student conference at MIT this March. Marina's paper, "Bone, Hair, and… More
Astrid Tvetenstrand Accepted to Feminist Art History Conference at American University
Astrid Tvetenstrand, PhD Candidate, has been accepted to the Feminist Art History Conference at American University. She will present her paper, "Women… More
Marina Wells Earns Curatorial Fellowship at New Bedford Whaling Museum
Marina Wells (PhD Candidate) earned the Photography Collection Curatorial Fellowship from the New Bedford Whaling Museum. More