Prof Paula Austin Wins 2022/23 BUCH Junior Faculty Fellowship
The Boston University Center for Humanities (BUCH) offers fellowships for junior faculty each year. Applicants are judged on the basis of their intellectual quality and scholarly significance, as well as on their direct relevance to the humanities. The BUCH Junior Faculty Fellowship for 2022/2023 is Assistant History Professor Paula Austin. Professor Austin will use the […]
Prof. Paula Austin and PhD Candidate Henry Tonks Receive 2022 Gitner Teaching Awards
Each year the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Undergraduate Teaching Prizes in History award one faculty member and one teaching fellow for excellence in instructing the department’s students. The 2022 faculty recipient is Professor Paula Austin and the 2022 graduate student recipient is Henry Tonks. Congratulations to both!
Anna Stroinski Wins Fulbright to Durham University
Anna Stroinski (’19, B.A. History & Philosophy), won a Fulbright award to Durham University in the United Kingdom and will use the award to complete a Masters in U.S. History. Stroinski will work with Professor Jennifer Luff on a project that grew out of her undergraduate thesis in history at BU. With a focus on coal […]
Environmental History Platform by Elizabeth Hameeteman Wins ASEH’s 2022 Public Outreach Award
Environmental History Now, launched by History PhD Elizabeth Hameeteman in 2018, won the 2022 Public Outreach Project Award of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). Environmental History Now showcases the environmental-related work and expertise of graduate students and early career scholars who identify as women, trans and/or non binary people from around the world, in different […]
Prof Nina Silber Joined Conversation at MHS
Professor Nina Silber joined a conversation with Civil War scholar Barbara Gannon at the Massachusetts Historical Society, focused on Professor Gannon’s investigation into Florida’s largest Civil War battlefield site, and the controversy surrounding its commemoration.
Prof Nina Silber was the Featured Speaker at Skidmore’s bi-annual Seminar
Professor Nina Silber was the featured speaker at Skidmore College’s bi-annual Kuroda Seminar, named in honor of former Skidmore American Studies Professor Tad Kuroda. Prof. Silber spoke about the memory of Abraham Lincoln during the New Deal era and also provided commentary on several undergraduate papers at a symposium honoring student writing. Previous Kuroda lecturers […]
PhD Candidate Tom Sojka Writes Review in LARB
History PhD Candidate Tom Sojka wrote a review of Laura Carter’s Histories of Everyday Life in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read Sojka’s review here.
Prof Brooke Blower Edited Third Volume of the CHAW
Associate Professor Brooke Blower edited the third volume of the Cambridge History of America in the World (CHAW). It is now available and can be found online here.
Catherine Devlin wins Fulbright to Glasgow
Congratulations to History senior Catherine Devlin, who won a Fulbright to the University of Glasgow Maters’ Program in Gender History!
Prof Menegon Chaired a Session at the Renaissance Society of America
On March 31, 2022, Professor Eugenio Menegon (on leave at Villa I Tatti in Florence) chaired a session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Dublin (Ireland) on “The image of Confucius in the writings of Catholic missionaries between the 17th and 18th Centuries”. Three junior Italian scholars (A. Tosco, R. De Gruttola, and […]