Professor Payaslian hosts Kenosian Chair Current Issues Series: “The United Nations, Armenia, and the Sovereignty of Nagorno Karabagh”
On Wednesday evening, March 26, 2014, Amb. Rouben Shougarian and Amb. Armen Baibourtian, former ambassadors of post-Soviet Armenia, spoke at the Kenosian Chair Current Issues Series, “The United Nations Armenia, and the Sovereignty of Nagorno Karabagh,” at Boston University’s Castle. Professor Simon Payaslian, Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University, […]
Professor Backman’s Piracy course featured in BU Today
Professor Clifford Backman’s HI214 course, History of Piracy, was featured in an article on BU Today. The piece by Rich Barlow, “Planting the Jolly Roger in a classroom,” can be accessed here.
Professor Blower publishes article in Diplomatic History
Professor Brooke Blower was recently published in the journal, Diplomatic History. The article, “From Isolationism to Neutrality: A New Framework for Understanding American Political Culture, 1919–1941,” assesses the pitfalls of relying on isolationism to describe American political culture during the 1920s and 1930s and proposes that the concept of neutrality offers a more useful framework for […]
Professor Chernock Receives Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar Award
Please join us in congratulating Professor Arianne Chernock, as she has been granted the Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar Award to pursue research in the United Kingdom next year.
March Department Newsletter Published
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Modern Intellectual History March 2014 Issue Published
HI 175 Student Documentaries on World History – Now Posted
In Fall 2013, 37 students in the course HI 175 – World History to 1500 (mostly non-majors, and many freshmen) engaged in a semester long video-project on nine main topics related to in-class lectures. The class was taught by Professor Eugenio Menegon, with the assistance of videographer Alp Atabay (Ph.D. Student at the BU Editorial institute) […]
BU grad student Zach Fredman has article published in Diplomatic History
Graduate student Zach Fredman’s article, “The Specter of an Expansionist China: Kennedy Administration Perceptions of Chinese Intentions in Vietnam” was recently published in the January 2014 edition of Diplomatic History. The piece started off as Fredman’s paper for the “Historian’s Craft” course offered at BU, and can be accessed here.
Professor Chernock to speak at: “Britain in the 1920s: An Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey,” on February 27.
BU Professor Arianne Chernock will be conducting a talk, entitled “The Bright Young People in 1920s Britain.” This will be part of a Downton Abbey inspired event being hosted by WGBH Boston on Thursday, February 27 from 6-9pm. For more information or to purchase tickets, please click here.
Katherine Jewell Launches Crowdsourced History Project, “Mapping the Boston Marathon 2013”
In the words of Kate Jewell, BU PhD recipient and faculty at Fitchburg State: “I started the Crowdsourced History project as a way to process what I experienced at the marathon bombing, when my son and I were 200 feet from the second bomb (on the same side of Boylston St.) From this personal motivation, […]