Professor Siegel Publishes Article Discussing the Role of Religion in India’s Recent Elections
Professor Benjamin Siegal, historian of South Asia and Professor of History at Boston University, had his article, “The Multiple Ideas of India: Narendra Modi and the Meaning of Indian Secularism,” published in Marginalia. Link to article: http://marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/multiple-ideas-india-narendra-modi-meaning-indian-secularism/
Professor Rubin Awarded Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
Please join us in congratulating Professor Jeffrey Rubin, who was recently awarded a Visiting Scholar Fellowship with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University for Spring 2015. Professor Rubin will use this opportunity to work on his new project, Citizen Subjectivities Reconfigured: Social Movements, Business, and Religion in Latin America’s Democracies. This […]
Professor Chernock’s Commencement Speech, Lessons from the History of the History Major at Boston University
“Graduating seniors, why are you here, in this room, this morning? Why? Because you all decided to major in history. So while you may not have lots in common with those sitting next to you, you have shared the experience of taking history courses together, courses with titles like: the Craft of History, World History, […]
Images from the History Department Commencement Ceremony – May 16, 2014
History Honors Recipients Toasted and Feted to Celebrate the Occasion
Recent Graduate Student Conferences at BU
American Political History Institute Graduate Student Conference On April 11-12, the APHI held its sixth annual Boston University graduate student history conference. This year’s theme was “The Politics of Protest: Dissent, Interest Groups, and the Loyal and Disloyal Opposition in U.S. Political History.” The conference drew participants from twelve universities across the country and comprised […]
Professor Johnson and Matthew Pressman Awarded the Gitner Undergraduate Teaching Prizes in History
The Department of History is pleased to announce the inaugural prize winners of the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Undergraduate Teaching Prizes in History. The faculty recipient is James Johnson, cited for his innovative work and teaching in HI 190 and his superior teaching record in other undergraduate classes last year. The teaching fellow recipient […]
Kate Hollander Awarded Shotwell Prize
Graduate student Kate Hollander has been awarded the Shotwell Prize for her dissertation, which examines a community of German-speaking artists and intellectuals as they formed and participated in a flexible and portable micro-culture between 1900 and 1941. With roots in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this community flourished in Weimar Berlin, then sought refuge in southern Denmark after the […]
Professor Halter’s Modern American Consumer course highlighted in BU Today article
The History of Shopping CAS class studies the modern American consumer By Rich Barlow Link to full article here Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at […]
Professor Johnson awarded ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowships
Professor Jim Johnson of the BU History Department was recently awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. During his ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowship terms, Professor Johnson will be working on Means of Concealment: French Identity and the Self, the follow-up book to Venice Incognito: Masks in […]