Encyclopedia Brittanica Interviews Nina Silber
The Encyclopaedia Britannica featured Professor Nina Silber on its on-line blog–a site where that most venerable compendium of knowledge, now updated for the digital age–interviews researchers and academics about their work. The interview went live on March 12, 2012. For more visit: http://www.britannica.com/blogs/category/5-questions/
Herbert and Mary Greig Scholarship in American History
The Herbert and Mary Greig Scholarship honors a select number of undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences whose studies include a significant focus on American history or culture. Students who receive the scholarship during their Junior Year will automatically be eligible for renewal in their Senior Year. Application and information can be found […]
Conference Time!
The first week of Spring brings flowers and birdsong, championship tournaments in basketball and hockey, and–even if you don’t normally associate it with Spring, conferences in the BU History Department. On Thursday and Friday, March 22-23, the Department will host the 7th Annual International Conference in American Political History. Co-sponsored with Princeton University and […]
Dellheim Named Kilachand Professor
Professor Charles Dellheim, former Department Chair and current Director of the Kilachand Honors College, has been named as the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor. In the announcement of the appointment, BU Provost Jean Morrison commended Dellheim for the “exceptional leadership, heightened standards, and serious scholarship” he has brought to the university.
Food and the City Conference
The Food and The City Conference, February 24 and 25th For two days, scholars from the U.S. and Europe met to explore the relationship between food and cities, a topic of increasing interest for historians, geographers, anthropologists, and urban planners. The History Department co-sponsored the event along with The Pardee Center for the Study of […]
UHA Mixer a Success
On February 9, the Undergraduate History Association kicked off the semester with a History Department Mixer. Uniting department faculty, UHA members, and students simply interested in history, the event provided an opportunity for students to learn more about the history department and the UHA. Over thirty students joined with Professors William Keylor, Richard Landes, Sarah […]
Graduate Student Jonathan Koefoed Wins Fellowship
Jonathan Koefoed received a Cushwa Center Research Grant from the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. The grant will fund summer research on Orestes Brownson and other Catholic intellectuals whose letters are located at Notre Dame, the goal being to connect Brownson and others within a larger, […]
February 2012 Department Newsletter
The February issue of Presence of the Past has arrived! Click here to take a look.
St. Martin’s Publishes New Book By Doctoral Student Linda Killian
Currently completing her dissertation, doctoral student Linda Killian has had a distinguished career as a journalist, author, and administrator. Her new book, The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents, came out this month from St. Martin’s Press and already has received favorable attention. Charlie Cook, editor and publisher of The Cook Political Report and political analyst for NBC […]
Prof. Betty Anderson Publishes New Book
Late last year, the University of Texas Press published Professor Betty Anderson’s new book, The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education , which the press describes as “a unique and comprehensive analysis of how the school shifted from a missionary institution providing a curriculum in Arabic to one offering an English-language American […]