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 […]
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.