PhD Candidate Cari Babitzke Wins 2021-22 Outstanding Teaching Fellow
The Writing Program has chosen History PhD Candidate Cari Babitzke as their Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the 2021-2022 Academic Year! This distinction values the important contribution Cari has made to their teaching mission and highlights confidence in her performance and abilities.
PhD Candidate Henry Tonks named 2022 MONUM Summer Fellow
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) Fellowship awards one Boston University graduate student the opportunity to spend the summer working with the City of Boston, within the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics. The fellowship for 2022 has been awarded to PhD Candidate Henry Tonks, who will have the opportunity to explore an interest in public service […]
Prof Sarah Phillips Featured in Podcast about the Dust Bowl
Associate Professor Sarah Phillips was recently featured on a podcast with Linda Gordon about the Dust Bowl and Okie migration. Listen to the entire episode here.
Prof James McCann Invited to European Research Council
Prof James McCann has been invited to serve as reviewer/referee for the European Research Council (ERC) that is part of the EU. He will evaluate and recommend research proposals from EU country applicants in areas of ecology, environment, and health.
Prof Eugenio Menegon shares events from his Berenson Fellowship in Italy
Associate Professor Eugenio Menegon, who received a 2022 Berenson Fellowship in Villa I Tatti, Italy, has shared a number of events from his time abroad… World Religions in Global History at the University of Padua: Lecture on Global Microhistory and China, 16 May, 2022. Presentation at Prof. Menegon’s alma mater, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, […]
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.