Prof Arianne Chernock Featured in New York Times Article on Queen Camilla
Associate Professor Arianne Chernock is named and quoted in this article in the New York Times, “Royal Nod for ‘Queen Camilla’ Caps Years of Image Repair.”
Prof. Arianne Chernock Publishes Piece on Queen Elizabeth II in NBC News
Associate Professor Arianne Chernock wrote a piece for NBC’s Think Column. Read the article titled, “Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee higlights 70 years of quiet boundary pushing,” here.
Prof. McCann Invited to Serve on Program Committee for ICEHO
Prof. McCann has been invited to serve on the Program Committee for the International Congress of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) for their meeting in Urlu, Finland in 2024. This appointment follows his role on the board of the American Society for Environmental History, service on the editorial board of the journal Environmental History and being […]
BU History Alum Anne Blaschke Publishes WaPo Article on Women Physicians and Sex Discrimination in Medicine
BU Ph.D. Anne Blaschke co-wrote an article in the Washington Post (Made by History) on the historical context behind a new JAMA Surgery study showing that women surgeons have more successful patient outcomes, in terms of survival rate and complications, than men surgeons. Despite their safer outcomes, though, sexism persists in medicine, and is built […]
BU History Alum Anne Blaschke Publishes OpEd on Sex and the City
BU History Ph.D. Anne Blaschke published an OpEd in the Washington Post (Made by History) on the legacy of the tv show Sex and the City. The article looks at the show’s troubling neglect of sexual assault in the 1990s in light of current sexual misconduct allegations against Chris Noth, who played the iconic character […]
Prof. Arianne Chernock Publishes Article in 20th Century British History Journal
Associate professor Arianne Chernock published an article, “A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America.” It is available to read here, in the Twentieth Century British History journal of the Oxford Academic.
PhD Candidate Tom Sojka Publishes Review Article “Explicit and Confounding Books” in LARB
PhD Candidate Tom Sojka published a review article in the Los Angeles Review of Books about Christopher Hilliard’s book A Matter of Obscenity. Tom’s full review can be found here.
December 2021 Issue of the History Department Newsletter Now Available
The December 2021 issue of the History Department’s newsletter, The Presence of the Past is now available! Read the newsletter here, or take a look at previous issues here.
Prof. Arianne Chernock Publishes Review in Times Literary Supplement
Associate Professor Arianne Chernock wrote a review in the Times Literary Supplement on Peter Doggett’s book, “Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties.” Read the full review here.
Virtual Plenary Honoring BU Professor Emeritus Charles Capper
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is hosting a virtual plenary honoring BU Professor Emeritus Charles Capper on Monday, 6 December 2021, 7pm EST. It is free and open to the public, link accessible here. To read more about Capper’s life and accomplishments within the study of history, see our previous post here.