Undergraduate History Association Holds 6th Annual Conference
Last weekend, the Undergraduate History Association held its 6th Annual Conference. This year’s theme was “Ideology.” The event was held in a hybrid format, which allowed UHA members to gather on campus or online to hear presentations and pose questions. UHA awarded three prizes during the event. Catherine Devlin took home first prize for her […]
HI 283 Student Shenger Zhou Publishes Article in History News Network
Shenger Zhou (CAS ’22) has published an article in the History News Network titled “Is History Ready to Judge the Trump Presidency?” The article was written by Zhou when he was a student in Professor Dave Shorten’s course HI 283: The Modern American Presidency in Fall 2020. The piece is available to read at HNN’s […]
Prof. Menegon wins Berenson Fellowship from Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Professor Eugenio Menegon received a Berenson Fellowship for the period January-June 2022 from the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, located at Villa I Tatti near Florence. This is part of his sabbatical leave, when he will bring to completion his current book project on Europeans in Beijing in the early modern period. This Fellowship […]
PhD Candidate Patrick Browne Publishes Article in New England Quarterly
PhD candidate Patrick Browne published a paper in the March 2021 issue of the New England Quarterly titled, “’This Most Atrocious Crusade against Personal Freedom’: Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of Civil War.” The essay explores increasing organization among anti-abolitionists in Boston during the Secession Winter and the combination of mob violence and […]
Special Giving Day Issue of the History Department Newsletter Now Available
A special Giving Day edition, the March 2021 issue of the History Department’s newsletter, The Presence of the Past is now available! The newsletter is available here, or take a look at previous issues here. Giving Day is Wednesday, April 7th! For 24 hours, every gift to the programs of your choice has an even bigger impact. Thanks […]
BU History PhD Christopher Conz Wins ASEH Prize for Article
Christopher Conz, a BU History PhD and Lecturer in African History at Tufts University, has won the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for best article outside journal Environmental History. The award went to Conz’s article “Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. […]
Prof. Chernock Publishes Article on Race and the British Royal Family
Professor Arianne Chernock today published an article in WBUR’s Cognoscenti titled “The Royal Family Can No Longer Avoid The Politics Of Race” as a response to Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, which aired last night on CBS. The piece is available to read at WBUR’s website.
Recording Available of Prof. Payaslian’s Lecture on Daniel Varoujan
Professor Simon Payaslian, in a public lecture on January 30, 2021, presented his research and recently published article on Daniel Varoujan at the University of Ghent, 1905-1909. The zoom event was organized by the ARPA Institute (Los Angeles and Yerevan). A recording of the event is available to watch here.
BU History PhD Andrew Bell Receives Marie Curie Skłodowska Action
BU History Ph.D. Andrew W. Bell (GRS ’20), currently an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, is the recipient of a 2021 Marie Curie Skłodowska Actions postdoctoral research fellowship. For the next two years, the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po in Paris will host Bell as he […]
PhD Candidate Elizabeth Hameeteman Wins Dissertation Fellowship from SHAFR
PhD candidate Elizabeth Hameeteman is the recipient of a 2021 Larry Gelfand-Armin Rappaport-Walter LaFeber Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for her dissertation project, “Water for a Thirsty World: Desalination, Development, and the Quest for Water in the 1950s and 1960s.” The fellowship honors “Lawrence Gelfand, founding member and […]