PhD Candidate Philip Rotz engages across disciplines with article in the South African Medical Journal
Philip Rotz, a PhD candidate in the History Department and African Studies Center, recently shared insights from his dissertation fieldwork in the South African Medical Journal. The article connects Phil’s work in urban environmental history with contemporary challenges and climate change impacts and adaptation. It is titled, “Back-to-the-Future Potential for Autochthonous Transmission of Aedes aegypti-transmitted […]
Prof. Mayers Publishes Article in Diplomacy & Statecraft
Professor of History and Political Science David Mayers published an article in Diplomacy & Statecraft titled “Crossing to Safety from Cold War America: The Collaboration and Friendship of John Paton Davies, Jr. and George Frost Kennan.” The article “probes the interwoven careers and lives of two distinguished American diplomats… who rose to prominence in the […]
The International History Review publishes article by David Mayers
The International History Review has published an article by Prof. David Mayers. Link to article: Destruction Repaired and Destruction Anticipated: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the Atomic Bomb, and U.S. Policy 1944-46
BU Ph.D. Kathryn Brownell Publishes Op-Ed on Trump & the GOP
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University and BU History alumna (Ph.D. 2011), has published an op-ed entitled “Trump fits GOP’s celeb infatuation – but it doesn’t make him a winner” for Reuters. Link to full text: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/02/how-the-gop-ensured-the-rise-of-donald-trump/
BU Alum Greg O’Malley Wins Two Prestigious AHA Book Prizes
Greg O’Malley, a 1999 graduate of the BU History Department, has won two prestigious book prizes from the American Historical Association. Currently Associate Professor of History at UC-Santa Cruz, O’Malley is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). At its recent annual meeting in […]
Schulman Publishes Op-Ed on Trump & Carter’s Unconventional Campaigns
A Washington outsider, anathema to his party’s establishment, rides a wave of discontent with politics-as-usual to an early lead in the presidential nominating contest. Seemingly emerging out of nowhere — a year before the first caucuses and primaries not even the longest list of contenders included his name — this unlikely candidate pioneers new campaign […]