PhD Graduates Katie Brownell and DJ Cash Get Tenure Track Positions
Two History Department PhD Graduates receive tenure track positions. DJ Cash (GRS ’12) will start his tenure track position at Carroll College, a small liberal arts school in Helena, MT. Katie Brownell (GRS ’11), currently a lecturer in the Department of History, will start her tenure track position this August at Purdue University in West […]
Machiavelli’s The Prince After 500 Years
Prof. Arianne Chernock on CNN
Prof. Arianne Chernock has a piece published on cnn.com. You can view the full article here
History Newsletter Released
The January issue of Presence of the Past is now out and available here. Stories include: . Presentation at the Massachusetts Historical Society by students of new history course HI190: Making History . Professor Charlie Capper’s tribute to his long-time mentor . Sabbatical update from professors abroad
Poverty and the Rights of Children in Armenia, Public Lecture by Armine K. Hovannisian
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—Armine Hovannisian, executive director of Junior Achievement of Armenia and founder of the NGO Orran, gave a public lecture on Sunday, November 11, 2012, on the current state of children in Armenia in the context of high levels of poverty. The event was organized by the Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in […]
Cambridge University Press has just published David Mayers’s book, FDR’s Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis
This book constitutes an investigation into the part played by personality and circumstance in US foreign policy during World War II. This account of US envoys residing in the major belligerent countries–Japan, Germany, Italy, China, France, Great Britain, USSR–highlights the fascinating role assumed by such diplomats as Joseph Grew, William Dodd, William Bullitt, Joseph Kennedy, […]
BU’s American Political History Institute Co-Hosts Major Conference on Presidential History
On Friday and Saturday, October 26-27, 2012, at the University of Virginia, a group of eminent scholars gathered to discuss how to advance the study of presidential history. The conference, entitled “Recasting Presidential History” and co-organized by Professor Brian Balogh of UVA and Professor Bruce Schulman of BU, was a joint undertaking of BU’s American […]
Announcing the next Forum for Young Scholars on East European Jewry
The BU History Department and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies are cooperating with Nevzlin Center at Hebrew University in organizing the Sixth Session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, to be held this July in Odessa, Ukraine. This is an ongoing forum, comprised of 15 advanced PhD students (ABD) and […]
Ph.D Grad Publishes New Book
Madia Thompson (GRS ’05) has published The Demise of Slavery in southwestern Morocco with The Edwin Mellen Press which was based on her dissertation.
Prof. Chernock Quoted in The New Republic
Professor Arianne Chernock has been quoted in a piece published in The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107508/why-the-british-press-cant-figure-out-what-it-wants-kate-middleton