PhD Candidate Charley Binkow Awarded BUCH Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Charley Binkow on winning the 2022 Boston University Center for the Humanities fellowship! The BUCH award is given to outstanding students in the humanities, and doctoral candidates nearing the end of their graduate work receive competitive fellowships for the following academic year. Charley’s research is on the movement to criminalize abortion […]
Incoming History Prof Dave Glovsky Wins ACLS Grant
Incoming Assistant Professor for African studies at the Department of History, Dave Glovsky, has been named an ACLS Centennial Fellow in the Dynamics of Place beginning January 2023. ACLS, or American Council of Learned Societies, is a nonprofit federation of 78 scholarly organizations and strongly supports scholarship in the humanities and related sciences. Glovsky’s project […]
History Alumnus Dave Shorten Starts as Manager at Harvard Business School
Former lecturer and PhD alumnus of BU’s History Department, Dave Shorten, has started a new position as Manager of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School. The Business History Initiative facilitates historical research and teaching in the field of business history. The manager supports the BHI’s mission by developing and managing research projects; serving […]
PhD Candidate Jamie Grischkan beginning as Assoc. Professor of Law at ASU
PhD Candidate Jamie Grischkan will begin as an Associate Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in the fall of 2022. She will teach Contracts, Business Associations, and Legal History.
PhD Candidate Jeanna Kinnebrew Wins Shotwell Fellowship
Congratulations to Jeanna Kinnebrew 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 alumni of the History PhD program. Titled “Sex in the Puritan City: How Boston Nonprofit Battles Remade Sexual Health Care, 1928-1972,” Jeanna’s work examines the ongoing […]
Prof. McConville Published Book with Harvard University Press
Professor Brendan McConville published a book entitled The Brethren: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America, with Harvard University Press. The book was a finalist for the best book of the year prize given by the Journal of the American Revolution.
Dr. Arianne Chernock Promoted to Full Professor
History faculty Dr. Arianne Chernock has been promoted from associate professor to full professor! Chernock is a scholar of modern Britain (post-17th century) whose work examines aspects of feminist thought, gender history, and the monarchy. Recognized internationally among the leading historians in her field, she is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the […]
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Three BU History Alumni contribute to recent UMASS Press Publication
A recent publication from UMASS Press, Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad (April 2021), was organized and edited by a BU History Department PhD, and contains chapters written by two additional scholars who earned their doctorates at Boston University: Timothy Walker, who is the editor of the book and wrote the introduction […]
Prof Andrew Robichaud Featured in BU Today Article on New England’s Ice Trade
Assistant Professor Andrew Robichaud is featured in this BU Today article titled, “Tracing the History of New England’s Ice Trade: BU history professor studies long-gone industry, and how climate change would have made it virtually impossible today.”