Prof. McCann to Give Invited Lecture at Waginengen University
On September 5th, Professor James McCann will be giving an invited lecture at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Professor McCann’s talk will be titled “Making an Ecology: Human and Fish Interactions in the Upper Nile Watershed.” The poster for the talk is below.
PhD Candidate Seth Anderson Co-Authors Article in New England Journal of Medicine
BU History PhD candidate Seth Anderson is a co-author on an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The article, titled “Changing Medical Practice, Not Patients–Putting an End to Conversion Therapy,” is available at the NEJM’s website here.
Pardee Center Publishes Paper by PhD Candidate Kristen Carey
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future recently published a paper by BU History PhD candidate Kristen Carey in its Issues in Brief series. Carey’s paper, titled “Demography Is Not Destiny: The Faulty Link Between Population and Development,” is available to read at the Pardee Center’s website.
PhD Candidate Seth Anderson Publishes Op-Ed in BU Today
As part of BU Today’s “POV” series, PhD candidate in the BU History Department Seth Anderson published an op-ed titled “POV: Taking the Measure of the Stonewall Uprising 50 Years Later.” The article is available to read at BU Today’s website here .
Prof. McCann, Kristen Carey, and Dima Hurlbut to Present at Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History
History Chair Prof. James McCann and two Ph.D. candidates, Kristen Carey and Dima Hurlbut, will present work at the first Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History in Salt Lake City on August 10th, 2019. Kristen will give a paper, “Counting the Nation: Population Policy and the Formation of the Tanzanian Citizen” and Dima will give […]
BU Remakes American Political History
The Boston University Department of History played a leading role at “Remaking American Political History,” a conference and organized by BU Ph.D. Kathryn Cramer Brownell of Purdue University along with Nicole Hemmer of the Miller Center for Public Affairs and Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. The conference, at Purdue […]
Spring Lectures and Summer Plans from Prof. Menegon
Facets of Religious and Cultural History in Early Modern China: Lectures by Professor Eugenio Menegon, Spring and Summer 2019 Spring 2019 Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese and World History) gave three public lectures during the past 2019 spring semester. During the BU spring break, on March 13, 2019, he offered at the University of California at […]
Recent Publications on China and the West by Prof. Menegon
In the past academic year, Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese and World History) concluded several publication projects. In December 2018, the prestigious national publishing house in Beijing, Shangwu yinshuguan 商务印书馆 (Commercial Press), issued the second volume of the Chinese translation of the Italian works by the famous Jesuit missionary in China, Matteo Ricci (Letters – Li […]
Prof. Alexis Peri and PhD Student Rachel Wilson Receive 2019 Gitner Teaching Awards
Each year the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Undergraduate Teaching Prizes in History go to one faculty member and one teaching fellow. The History Department wishes to congratulate the 2019 recipients of these department prizes: Associate Professor Alexis Peri and PhD candidate Rachel Wilson!
PhD Candidate Tom Sojka Selected for BUCH Internship at Boston Public Library
BU History PhD candidate Tom Sojka was selected as one of the recipients of the Boston University Summer PhD Internships in the Humanities (co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Provost of Graduate Affairs and the BU Center for the Humanities). As part of the internship at the Boston Public Library, Tom will curate an […]