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 […]
PhD Daniel Burge published Op-Ed with Washington Post
BU History Ph.D. Daniel Burge recently published this op-ed explaining the current banking crisis in the Washington Post.
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.
BU History Hosts Book Talk with Prof. Zhao and Discussant Prof. Hua
BU Center for the Study of Asia + BU Department of History Presents: “The Reach of the Revolutionary Propaganda State in Beijing, 1950-1953” Prof. Zhao MA 馬釗 (Washington University St. Louis) In a forthcoming new book, Seditious Voices in Revolutionary China, 1950-1953, Prof. Zhao examines the relationship between rumor-mongering and political propaganda during the Korean […]
Prof Emeritus James McCann presentations and seminars
Professor Emeritus James McCann will present a lightning round paper “Reflections on Water, Watersheds and Historical Identities: A Tale of Two Rivers” to the meeting Research on Tap organized by the BU Associate Provost for Research on March 22. Prof. McCann’s paper is a prelude to a plenary panel for the 2024 Third Annual World […]
PhD Student Elizabeth Grumer Presented Prize Winning Paper at UMD
History PhD candidate Elizabeth Grumer presented a paper at the University of Maryland History Graduate Student Association Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her paper studies the reincarnation craze in American popular culture during the 1950s, linking the phenomenon to contemporaneous ideas about historical memory and gender identity. It was awarded the UMD […]
The Brink Published Article about Prof Menegon’s Research on Christianity in China
The Brink published an article about research conducted by History Professor Eugenio Menegon and Theology Professor Daryl Ireland. The article, “What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?” discusses the two faculty’s efforts at mapping religion’s history in China and explaining its rapid growth.