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.”
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 […]