BU Professor Jonathan Zatlin Wins DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies
Professor Jonathan Zatlin is the recipient of the Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies in the field of Economics, which is awarded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). The prize will be presented on December 13 in a black-tie affair in New York City. Meanwhile, Zatlin’s essay “Rethinking Reunification: German Monetary Union […]
BU Study Abroad Launches New London Program in History and Literature
Boston University British Programmes located in South Kensington, London have launched the inaugural semester for students wishing to focus on studying British history while in London. Seven students are participating in the program, not only from BU, but also the College of Wooster in Ohio and Colgate University, New York. The students take two core courses -Research […]
History announces new departmental Honors Program for 2012-13
Beginning in Fall 2012, the History Department will launch a new departmental Honors Program. Senior history majors possessing the requisite grade point level (a minimum of 3.0 in all courses, 3.5 in all history courses) will be able to enroll in History 401/402, a two-semester seminar that will guide students through the research and writing […]
Blumenthal and Schulman lead “Exploring the Other Boston”–freshmen walking tour
On Saturday, October 1 Doctoral Student Seth Blumenthal and Professor Bruce Schulman led a group of CAS Freshmen on a historic walking tour of Boston. Boston is more than the Freedom Trail, so Blumenthal and Schulman led students through Boston’s diverse neighborhoods and explored the many layers of history they have accumulated over 400 years. […]
BU to host Global 1970s Conference
On November 10-11, an international gathering of scholars will gather for the first Global 1970s conference at Boston University. Part of a multi-year collaboration between Boston University, the University of Münster (Germany), and the University of Utrecht, the first of three planned conferences, “The Radical Decade in Global Perspective” will explore the experience of the […]
COM Professor Chris Daly reflects on “Drafts of History”
During Fall 2010, Professors Bruce Schulman and Chris Daly (COM Journalism) and team taught a course called “Drafts of History: Journalism and Historical Revision.” The course explored several episodes from U.S. history, examining how the “first drafts” produced by journalists compared to subsequent drafts written by historians. In so doing, we analyzed not only how […]
Graduate student Scott Marr defends dissertation
Scott Marr defended his dissertation, “Urban Encounters and the Religious Divide: Catholic-Protestant Coexistence in Saumur, France, 1589-1665.” As historians of early modern Europe shifted their gaze from episodes of religious violence to expressions of religious tolerance, the mechanics of coexistence in everyday life—how men and women of different confessional allegiances managed to live and worship […]
Graduate student David Mislin publishes article
Graduate student’s David Mislin’s article “‘Never Mind the Dead Men’: The Damnation of Theron Ware and the Salvation of American Protestantism” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of the Historical Society. It is scheduled to appear in the journal’s December issue.
Professor Andrew Bacevich publishes two articles on the modern American military
Professor Andrew Bacevich published “Whose Army?” in the summer issue of Daedalus and “Tailors to the Emperor” in the May-June issue of New Left Review.
Professor Jon Roberts publishes two articles on science and religion
Professor Jon Roberts recently published two articles. The first “Science and Religion,” in Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science, ed. Peter Harrison, et al. (University of Chicago Press), examined the changing meaning of the terms “science” and “religion” and the history of the trope “science and religion” as it manifested itself in the rhetoric […]