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Special Giving Day Issue of the History Department Newsletter Now Available

A special Giving Day edition, the March 2021 issue of the History Department’s newsletter, The Presence of the Past is now available! The newsletter is available here, or take a look at previous issues here. Giving Day is Wednesday, April 7th! For 24 hours, every gift to the programs of your choice has an even bigger impact. Thanks […]

BU History PhD Christopher Conz Wins ASEH Prize for Article

Christopher Conz, a BU History PhD and Lecturer in African History at Tufts University, has won the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for best article outside journal Environmental History. The award went to Conz’s article “Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. […]

Prof. Chernock Publishes Article on Race and the British Royal Family

Professor Arianne Chernock today published an article in WBUR’s Cognoscenti titled “The Royal Family Can No Longer Avoid The Politics Of Race” as a response to Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, which aired last night on CBS. The piece is available to read at WBUR’s website.

Recording Available of Prof. Payaslian’s Lecture on Daniel Varoujan

Professor Simon Payaslian, in a public lecture on January 30, 2021, presented his research and recently published article on Daniel Varoujan at the University of Ghent, 1905-1909.  The zoom event was organized by the ARPA Institute (Los Angeles and Yerevan). A recording of the event is available to watch here.

BU History PhD Andrew Bell Receives Marie Curie Skłodowska Action

BU History Ph.D. Andrew W. Bell (GRS ’20), currently an affiliated faculty member at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, is the recipient of a 2021 Marie Curie Skłodowska Actions postdoctoral research fellowship. For the next two years, the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po in Paris will host Bell as he […]

PhD Candidate Elizabeth Hameeteman Wins Dissertation Fellowship from SHAFR

PhD candidate Elizabeth Hameeteman is the recipient of a 2021 Larry Gelfand-Armin Rappaport-Walter LaFeber Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for her dissertation project, “Water for a Thirsty World: Desalination, Development, and the Quest for Water in the 1950s and 1960s.” The fellowship honors “Lawrence Gelfand, founding member and […]

Announcing the 2021 Bacon Lecture by Manisha Sinha on April 14

Please join the Boston University History Department for the 2021 annual Gaspar G. Bacon Lecture. Professor Manisha Sinha, the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut will examine the long genealogy of the Nineteenth Amendment in the history of abolitionist feminism. It revisits the Reconstruction debates over women’s suffrage to argue that […]

PhD Candidate Patrick Browne Wins Shotwell Fellowship

Congratulations to Patrick Browne 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. Tentatively titled “The Ordeal of Homecoming: Northern Civilians and Returning Union Veterans of the Civil War,” Patrick’s work […]

Prof. Ibram X. Kendi’s New Book Four Hundred Souls Out Today

Today marks the release of a new book from Ibram X. Kendi, a Professor of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 was co-edited by Professor Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, and published by One […]