Prof. Emeritus Fred Leventhal Co-Authors Book for Oxford University Press
Professor Emeritus Fred Leventhal is the joint author (with Peter Stansky of Stanford) of a new biography, Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist, published in August by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Chernock Releases New Book on Cambridge University Press
This month, Cambridge University Press is publishing a new book by Professor Arianne Chernock titled The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement. In anticipation of the book’s release, Professor Chernock wrote a post for the Cambridge University Press blog.
C-SPAN Airs SHAFR Plenary Panel Moderated by Prof. Brooke Blower
In June, C-SPAN broadcast the plenary session of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2019 annual conference, which took place in Arlington, Virginia. Professor Brooke Blower moderated the panel, a reflection on “99 Years After the 19th Amendment.” The recording of the discussion is now available to stream on C-SPAN’s website.
Summer 2019 History Department Newsletter is Now Available
The Summer 2019 departmental newsletter, The Presence of the Past, is now available to read online here. You can also browse past issues at our website here.
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 […]