PhD Candidate Dave Shorten Publishes Article in The Washington Post
BU History PhD candidate Dave Shorten recently published an article in The Washington Post as part of the paper’s “Made by History” series. The article, titled “The century-old roots of Donald Trump’s reality-show presidency,” is available to read online at The Washington Post‘s website.
PhD Candidate Agnes Burt Receives GRAF to Conduct Research in the UK
PhD candidate Agnes Burt was awarded a short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. The short-term GRAF will provide funds for her continued dissertation research in the United Kingdom. Her dissertation examines Britons’ varied responses to the extension of married women’s property rights under the 1870 and 1882 Married Women’s Property Acts and the ways married women used […]
BU History PhD Anne Blaschke Publishes Article in The Conversation
BU History PhD and Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross Anne Blaschke wrote a piece for The Conversation titled “Nassar’s abuse reflects more than 50 years of men’s power over female atheletes.” In it, Blaschke argues that lax enforcement of Title IX and the Amateur Sports Act have enabled sexual predators like […]
Prof. Menegon Co-edits Journal Issue on Maritime China and Publishes Article on Sino-Western Relations
The Journal Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (online and print journal based at UC Berkeley) published an open access issue in December 2017, co-edited by Professor Eugenio Menegon with Professors Philip Thai (Northeastern University) and Xing Hang (Brandeis University), entitled “Binding Maritime China: Control, Evasion, and Interloping.” Based on a conference with […]
BU History PhD Daniel Burge Publishes Article in Washington Post ‘Made by History’ Series
Recent BU History PhD Daniel Burge published an article as part of The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series. The article, titled “As Congress prepares to loosen bank regulations, it still refuses to address the cause of the two worst financial meltdowns in history” can be read at The Washington Post’s website.
Prof. Schmidt’s Catastrophe & Memory Course Featured in BU Today
Professor James Schmidt’s Fall 2017 course HI 221: Catastrophe & Memory was profiled for BU Today, including interviews with Schmidt and students from the course. The article explores a project for the course, in which students studied a “memory site” in Boston and posted their findings to the crowdsourced public history site TheClio.com. Go to BU Today to […]
BU PhD Anne Blaschke Interviewed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BU History PhD and Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross Anne Blaschke was quoted for an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on Oprah’s Golden Globes speech. Blaschke discussed the historical content of Oprah’s comments and how they intersect with fourth-wave feminism, such as that within the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements. The article, titled, “This Life: […]
Prof. Silber Interviewed for “What I’m Reading” Series on the HNN
Professor Nina Silber was interviewed by the History News Network as part of a regular feature called “What I’m Reading,” in which historians discuss books they are reading and their thoughts on historical scholarship. To read the interview with Professor Silber, click here.
Prof. Jarvis Talks to the HGSO at the 2nd Installment of its Coffee Chat Series
The History Graduate Student Organization held the second installment of its Coffee Chat Series on December 6. While enjoying some pie this time (as it is the season!), Professor Eric Jarvis spoke to graduate students about his research, approaches on how to tackle the qualifying oral examination, and his take on teaching and pedagogy. The […]
BU PhD Anne Blaschke Publishes Article on the Causes of #MeToo for the Washington Post
Anne Blaschke, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at College of the Holy Cross and BU PhD graduate, published an article for The Washington Post’s “Made by History” feature, titled “#MeToo is undoing the devil’s bargain of the 1990s,” on the ways in which men maintained structural power through sexual coercion even as women made gains in […]