Alum Kathryn Lamontagne Publishes Book with Routledge UK
Kathryn Lamontagne (CAS ’16, GRS ’20), a lecturer in CGS Division of Social Sciences, published her first book with Routledge UK in the summer 2023 entitled “Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood: Pious Transgressors in Late 19th and Early 20th England.” It is part of the series Routledge Studies in Religion. She has been invited to give […]
Prof. Bruce Schulman publishes article for relaunch of “Made By History” for Time Magazine
History Professor Bruce J. Schulman published an article, entitled “Today’s Media Landscape Took Root a Century Ago. Decisions Made Now Could Shape the Next 100 Years” for the relaunch of “Made By History” at Time Magazine.
Prof. Simon Payaslian Presents Paper at BISA
History Professor Simon Payaslian presented a paper entitled “U.S. Human Rights Policy towards the Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: The Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations,” at the annual conference of the British International Studies Association (BISA) US Foreign Policy Working Group, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR), Queen Mary University of London, Sept. […]
PhD Alumna Katie Brownell Publishes Second Book with Princeton University Press
Katie Brownell, BU Ph.D. (and current Associate Professor of History at Purdue University) has published her second book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and The Fragmenting of America From Watergate to Fox News. Published by Princeton University Press, the book “argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today’s rampant polarization and scandal politics—the […]
Henry Tonks Awarded Grant from Dirksen Congressional Center
PhD Candidate Henry Tonks was awarded a grant from the Dirksen Congressional Center for his research proposal.
Prof. Simon Payaslian Publishes Article in Studies on National Movements
History Professor Simon Payaslian published an article, entitled “The Origins of Armenian Nationalism in the United States and the American Armenian Press (1880s-1920s),” in Studies on National Movements.
PhD Alumna Cari Babitzke is featured in Bostonia Article on Gun Politics
Historian and PhD alumna Cari Babitzke (GRS ’22) was interviewed by Bostonia, BU’s alumni magazine, about partisan gun politics in America and her personal investment in this area of study. Read the full article, entitled “Under the Gun: How the AR-15 Divided a Nation,” on their website.
Henry Tonks is Selected for Seminar with Newberry Library
History PhD Candidate Henry Tonks has been selected for the Newberry Library’s 2023-2024 History of Capitalism Seminar (seminar call is here). His paper is called “The Next American Frontier: Liberalism, Technology, and the Quest for a New Industrial Policy in the 1980s.”
Profs Paula Austin and John Thornton Featured in Article with BU Today
History Professors Paula Austin and John Thornton were quoted and interviewed in a BU Today article, entitled “BU Historians Weigh In on Ron DeSantis’ Slavery Remarks and His Defense of Florida’s Controversial Social Studies Curriculum.”
Prof Arianne Chernock Publishes Article in The Oxford Handbook
History Professor Arianne Chernock published an article entitled “Suffrage as Philosophy: Women Theorizing the Vote in Britain, 1792–1918” in the The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, with editors Lydia Moland and Alison Stone. A PDF of the article is available here.