Professor Brooke Blower and Professor Jon Roberts Recipients of Henderson Senior Faculty Fellowship
The History department is pleased to announce: Professor Brooke Blower and Professor Jon Roberts have each been awarded the Henderson Senior Faculty Fellowship from the BU Center for the Humanities. Professor Blower will use her time as Henderson Fellow to pursue research on her current project, “Hidden Fronts: New American Histories of World War II,” […]
History Major Katie Rice (CAS ’15) Named Phi Kappa Beta Initiate
Please join us in congratulating Katie Rice, who will be initiated into The Phi Kappa Beta Society on December 3. Phi Beta Kappa chapters “invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America’s leading colleges and universities.” Congratulations, Katie!
Faculty in the Media: Professor Keylor Comments on Current Events
Recently, Professor Bill Keylor has appeared on several media outlets to discuss current events of significance. Below are links to those interviews: RT – the Cold War and recent re-emergence of tensions between the US and Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oIYfrpKnE&feature=youtu.be Arise America – U.S. – Israel relations : http://www.arise.tv/headline/arise-america-30-10-8921 L.A. Times – “Is North Korean leader Kim […]
Professor Nina Silber named 2014 Fortenbaugh Speaker
Professor Nina Silber has been named the 2014 Fortenbaugh Speaker by the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute. The 53rd Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture will be held on November 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater. This year’s lecture: “Abraham Lincoln and the Political Culture of New Deal America.” The Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture is […]
NEW FACULTY BOOK: *African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America*
Professor Marilyn Halter’s new book, African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America was released by NYU Press earlier this year. Coauthored by Professor Violet Showers Johnson (Texas A&M), “African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States […]
NEW FACULTY BOOK: *Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia*
Professor Simon Rabinovitch has released his second book, Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia. Jewish Rights, National Rites “provides a completely new interpretation of the origins of Jewish nationalism in Russia. It argues that Jewish nationalism, and Jewish politics generally, developed in a changing legal environment where the […]
“Animals, War, and Memory,” a Conversations in History lecture by Gene Tempest – 12pm, November 10
BUToday Article Highlights Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series
BUToday has published a piece, “Finding New Ways to Connect to the Past,” which describes the Sawyer Seminar lecture series, and its role in recasting BU’s History curriculum. Professor Jonathan Zatlin, and post-doctoral fellow Gene Tempest were interviewed for the article. link to full text: http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/finding-new-ways-to-connect-to-the-past/ And don’t miss “Phoenix Century: Myths of Rebirth […]
NEW FACULTY BOOK: *Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America’s Democracies*
Edited by BU History Professor Jeffrey Rubin, and Vivienne Bennet (California State University San Marcos), Enduring Reform “examines the connections between the new face of progressive, civil-society-based reform in Latin America and new kinds of openness to reform on the part of the private sector. The project’s original and exciting contribution grows out of the interviews our […]