Professor Brooke Blower Promoted
The Department of History is thrilled to announce that Professor Brooke Blower has been promoted from Associate Professor of History to Professor of History. Please congratulate Professor Blower on this wonderful accomplishment!
PhD Candidate Henry Tonks Publishes Essay in American Affairs Journal
PhD Candidate Henry Tonks recently published a new essay in the American Affairs Journal, titled “The Rise and Fall of the New Liberals: How the Democrats Lost Their Majority.” Please click here to read a free, PDF version of the article.
New Prof Chad Williams Featured in CAS Faculty Spotlight
Professor Chad Williams, Tomorrow Foundation Professor of History and African American Studies and Black Diaspora Studies, was recently interviewed for a faculty spotlight for the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). He discusses his current and past book projects, as well as his hopes for students in his classes. Click here to read the article.
PhD Candidate Henry Tonks Publishes Article in the “Law and Political Economy Project”
Henry Tonks published a piece in the Law and Political Economy Project titled “The Whole Equation: Can ‘Neoliberalism’ Explain Everything?” Click here to access and read the article.
Prof Jonathan Zatlin Featured in “The Washington Post” Article
Professor Jonathan Zatlin was quoted in a recent article in The Washington Post (January 20, 2025) regarding Trump’s claims of a landslide and mandate. Click here to access the article via The Washington Post, and click here for a PDF version.
Prof Bruce Schulman Publishes New Piece in “Made by History”
Tired of all those hot takes drawing dramatic, long-term conclusions from a single election? Reminded of so many other wrong predictions (remember when Obama’s 2008 victory ushered in a new New Deal? Or Biden’s 2020 win signaled the end of Trumpism? Or George W. Bush heralded “compassionate conservatism”). Here’s Prof. Bruce Schulman’s attempt to make some […]
Prof Jonathan Zatlin Interviewed for New BU Today Article
Rich Barlow’s new article in BU Today, titled “Trump Might Govern as an Authoritarian. Is That What His Voters Want?,” features BU History professor Jonathan Zatlin. In the article, scholars Zatlin and Timothy Longman analyze the concerns that Trump will govern less as a democratic leader and more as a strongman in his second term, based on […]
Prof Alexis Peri Featured in “Meet the Fellows” Video from BU Center for the Humanities
Associate Professor of History and Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Alexis Peri brings viewers into the world of Soviet beauty pageants, Miss KGB, and global competition. Click here to watch the video!
Rachel Monsey Wins the David Underdown Prize for Best Paper Delivered by a Graduate Student
Ph.D. candidate Rachel Monsey won the David Underdown Prize of the Northeast Conference on British Studies at the NECBS annual conference in September 2024. Her paper, entitled “‘With Souls divided betwixt Joy and Grief’: The Death of Charles II and Addresses of Congratulations and Condolence to James VII/II,” received the prize, recognizing the best paper […]
Henry Tonks Featured in BU Center for the Humanities “Meet the Fellows” Video
PhD candidate in History and current BUCH Graduate Dissertation Fellow Henry Tonks discusses his dissertation on the evolution of the Democratic Party in the late 20th-century in this video, published by the BUCH.