Uncategorized

PhD Candidate Tom Sojka Wins Shotwell Fellowship

Congratulations to Tom Sojka for winning the Shotwell Fellowship, an award that assists History PhD students in their final year of dissertation writing. This award has been generously funded by an alum of the History PhD program. His dissertation, “Moving Beyond Mayfair: Rethinking Social Life in Interwar Britain,” shows how Britons in the 1920s and […]

Tom Sojka presented at Britain & the World Conference

Tom Sojka presented his paper, “Somewhere in France with You: Interwar Sociability on the Continent” at the Britain & the World Conference at Duquesne University on April 21st. The paper, drawn from his dissertation research, showcases elite social life beyond London’s West End and follows the Bright Young People to Continental destinations like the French […]

BUCH Award Winners in History

The History Department is excited to share the news that History majors Lauren Gotard, Eitan Marshall-Pinko, Elle Nicoletti, and Simone Seiner received student awards with the Boston University Center for the Humanities! Another BUCH award in the form of a Summer 2023 internship was awarded to History major, Emma Obregon Dominguez who will intern with […]

Graduate Students Henry Tonks and Caryne Nicholas Awarded BUCH PhD Summer Internships

History is proud to celebrate graduate students Henry Tonks and Caryne Nicholas, who both recieved PhD Summer Internships from the Boston Univeristy Center for the Humanities (BUCH). For the sixth year in a row, the Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs and the BUCH announced the winners for stipend-supported summer internships aimed at […]

History PhDs at the Graduate History Conference.

History PhD Candidates Courteney Smith, Rachel Weiser, Liam Cronan and Tom Sojka presented at the Graduate History Conference, “Space Across the Humanities: Conceptualizing Place in Hidden Histories” at Northeastern on Saturday, April 1, 2023.

Aixin Yi Awarded B.T.I Consortium Paper Prize

History PhD student Aixin Yi has been awarded First Place in the 2023 Student Paper Competition of the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium. Her paper studies American missionary involvement in agricultural improvement in China in the early twentieth century. Her further research seeks to situate agricultural missions in the proliferation of contesting discourses of modernity in twentieth-century Chinese history. 

Prof Cari Babitzke Accepted to the USIH-IUPUI Community Scholars Inaugural Cohort

History lecturer Professor Cari Babitzke was accepted to the Society for U.S. Intellectual History with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (USIH-IUPUI) Community Scholars inaugural cohort. This new initiative had a highly competitive response, and Professor Babitzke will contribute her innovative scholarship in U.S. intellecual history.