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Prof. Shorten Interviewed on Vice Presidential Debate for BU Today

Professor Dave Shorten was one of three BU faculty interviewed by BU Today for a feature on last night’s vice presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence. The article, titled “BU Experts Weigh In on Wednesday’s Historic Vice Presidential Debate,” is available to read on BU Today‘s website.

Prof. Payaslian Organizes Panel at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

Professor Simon Payaslian organized and chaired a panel entitled “State and Diaspora Policies on Ethnicity and Political Engagement,” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association on September 13, 2020.  The panelists were Professor Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College; Professor Harris Mylonas, George Washington University; Charles Taber, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University; Professor Nadejda Marinova, […]

Prof. Kendi Named One of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People

Ibram X. Kendi, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Center for Antiracist Research, and Professor of History, was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. As Al Sharpton writes in his profile of Kendi for the 2020 Time100 list, “He provides concrete and actionable steps and recommendations […]

BU History PhD Andrew David Interviewed in BU Today

BU History PhD and former Lecturer in the department Andrew David was interviewed in BU Today for a piece titled “The Trump Tapes vs the Nixon Tapes.” The article, which is part of BU Today’s 2020 election coverage, is available to read at their website.

Prof. Payaslian Publishes Article on Armenian Poet Daniel Varoujan

Professor Simon Payaslian published an article entitled “Daniel Varoujan à l’Université de Gand (1905-1909),” in Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis (97, 2019), pp. 841-872. The article appears in a special issue entitled Daniel Varoujan: Un poète arménien à Gand – cent ans après, edited by Professor Peter Van […]

Prof. Zatlin Co-edits New Book on Nazi Germany

Professor Jonathan Zatlin just published a new book on University of Michigan Press titled Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953. Professor Zatlin was co-editor along with Christoph Kreutzmüller, a Senior Historian of the House of the Wannsee-Conference, Berlin. This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural […]

Professor Blower Receives Public Scholars Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

Professor Brooke Blower is a recipient of the Public Scholars grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project “American World Wars: Intimate Histories from the Crash of the Yankee Clipper.” The Public Scholars program supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. Professor Blower’s project […]

Prof. Austin Writes POV Article for BU Today

Professor Paula Austin has written an article for BU Today titled “POV: Trump’s Call for a National Garden of American Heroes Misses the Point.” The article is available to read on BU Today’s website here.

History’s Undergraduate Humanities Scholars Awards for Summer 2020

Five History students (out of a total of 25 awardees for all humanistic disciplines), in collaboration with History faculty, have received UROP Humanities Scholars Awards for Summer 2020. These awards provide students with stipend and supplies/travel support and research funding to their faculty mentor. Our students will present their findings at the Annual UROP Research Symposium and through other activities during […]