Roberts Wins RIHA Grant
Together with Peter Harrison, the Director for the Center of European Discourses at the University of Queensland (Australia), BU History Professor Jon Roberts and has secured a $100,000 grant from the Historical Society’s program in Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs (RIHA). The grant will fund a project that explores the nature of the historical interaction among […]
Graduate Student David Olson Wins Bemis Award
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations recently awarded doctoral candidate David Olson a prestigious Samuel Flagg Bemis Award. The grant will help Olson to visit archival collections in Washington, Ottawa, London, and Paris over the course of the next several months. This research will Olson to complete his dissertation, a cultural and diplomatic […]
Oxford University Press Publishes Backman’s Cultures of the West
In December 2012, Oxford University Press published Associate Professor Clifford Backman’s new book, The Cultures of the West: A History. Designed for classroom use, this book focuses “on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world-for good and for ill”
Calll for Papers: 21st Annual BU Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, March 29-30, 2013
BU History Internship Panel and Workshop – Jan. 28th @ 6:30pm
Upcoming LANDMARKS Event – Machiavelli’s The Prince After 500 Years
Making History: Undergrads Mount Exhibition at MHS
On December 13, the History Department welcomed students, faculty, and the community to an exhibition and presentation at the Massachusetts Historical Society mounted by students in HI 190– “Making History: Conflict and Community in Boston’s Past.” The exhibition, “King Philip’s War in Artifacts and Ideas,” documents the culture of early Puritan settlers and Native Americans […]
BU History Co-Sponsors Second Annual “Food and the City” Conference, Feb 1-2, 2013
Continuing a joint venture with the University of Texas-Austinthat began with the 2012 “Food and the City” Conference at Boston University, the BU History Department is co-sponsoring “Food, the City, and Innovation,” a roundtable conference at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Click here for a full sized flyer.
Jolanta Komornicka Defends Dissertation
On November 30th, Jolanta Komornicka successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “The Parlement Of Paris And Crimes Of Lese Majesty In France, 1328–1350.” Examining the use of lese majesty by the Parlement of Paris during the reign of Philip VI Valois (r. 1328-1350), the dissertation explores the relationships between the high judicial court, the king, other jurisdictions, […]
Professor Johnson, HI190 Featured in BU Today
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