Undergrad Rachel Klepper Wins Essay Prize
Undergraduate history major Rachel Klepper, has just won a North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper “Huguenot and Jewish Settlement in Spitalfields, London: ‘the Middle Ground Between Civilization and Barbarism”, which she wrote while on the London Study Abroad program. This is a very selective award and if you see […]
Prof. Brooke Blower Wins Hanlan Prize for Becoming Americans in Paris
Professor Brooke Blower’s book, Becoming Americans in Paris, has won another award–the James P. Hanlan BOOK AWARD of the The New England Historical Association. Awarded annually since 1985 to an author who has lived or worked in New England at some time during the prior two years. the prize recognizes the best book by a New England […]
Prof. Arianne Chernock Review Essay on Public Books
Professor Arianne Chernock has review essay “The Persistence of Monarchy” posted on Public Books. Follow the link provided to read full essay. http://publicbooks.org/nonfiction/the-persistence-of-monarchy
Profs. Heywood and Thornton Correct NY Times Piece on Obama’s Ancestry
Department Professors Linda Heywood and John Thornton have weighed in on the recent controversy over President Obama’s ancestry on his mother’s side and the disputed history of African slavery in 17th century North America. For more, visit http://www.theroot.com/views/account-obamas-slave-ancestry-misses-mark
Prof. Thornton Publishes New Cultural History of the Atlantic World
Cambridge University press has just announced the publication of Professor John Thornton’s latest book, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820. Exploring the linkages in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and South America, Thornton traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation and the […]
Professor Jim Johnson Wins Kenschur Prize
The Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, housed at Indiana University, has awarded Professor James Johnson the Oscar Kenshur Book Prize for his 2011 book, Venice Incognito (the book has already won the Mosse Award of the American Historical Association). The Kenshur Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph of interest to eighteenth-century scholars working in […]
Profs. Ferleger and Zatlin Publish Article on European Crisis
The Truth About Why German Elites View Southern Europeans as Inferior and Falsely Judge History. Click here for full story.
Seth Blumenthal, Michael Holm and Jonathan Koefoed Win Dissertation Fellowships
The winners of this year’s Robert V. Shotwell Dissertation Fellowship are Seth Blumenthal, Michael Holm, and Jonathan Koefoed. The fellowship is named after Robert Shotwell, father to one BU alum and grandfather to a current student, and brings the quality of persistence to this scholarship. Graduate students are known for procrastination, taking longer and longer […]
Prof. Ferleger and Undergrad Jacob Magid Published
Professor Louis Ferleger and undergraduate student Jacob Magid publish new study of persistent unemployment. Their new article investigates some of America’s “dead zones” and discusses how to move stalled economies. For more, visit http://www.alternet.org/economy/155731/how_to_end_the_nightmare_of_jobless_america
Prof. Chernock Featured in BU Today
Professor Arianne Chernock is featured in BU Today, check out the full article below. http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/fit-for-a-queen/