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Intercultural Clothing: Prof. Menegon Delivers ‘Ricci Lecture’ at Saint Louis University

  In the afternoon of October 3rd, Professor Eugenio Menegon delivered the Fall “Ricci Lecture” at St. Louis University (SLU), St. Louis, Missouri, as part of the “Matteo Ricci Speakers Series: the Jesuits, Christianity, China, and the Intercultural Experience” sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Departments of History and Theological Studies, […]

Prof. Schulman Publishes Review Essay on Bicycling in Reviews in American History

Professor of History Bruce Schulman (pictured below) published a review essay on bicycling in the turn of the century United States. “Pedaling Toward Modernity” appears in the September 2016 issue of Reviews in American History, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. To view the piece, visit https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631152/pdf.

Prof. Edmund Russell to Deliver Lecture at Mass. Historical Society

Professor of History Edmund Russell is scheduled to give a talk at the Massachusetts Historical Society on Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 from 5:15 to 7:30pm. The talk, entitled “Adapting Capitalism to Climates: Entrepreneurs, Stock, and Transcontinental Telegraphy in the United States, 1844-1861,” will be followed by comments from MIT Professor Merrit Roe Smith. The event is […]

BU PhD Kathryn Brownell Publishes Two New Articles in Presidential Studies Quarterly and Reuters

BU Ph.D. Kathryn Brownell, currently Assistant Professor at Purdue, has just published two new articles. The first, “Gerald Ford, Saturday Night Live, and the Development of the Entertainer-in-Chief,” appears in the current issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly. You can find the second, an op-ed for Reuters, at: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate-commentary-idUSKCN11T0AP

Prof. Chernock to Deliver Talk on Queen Victoria at Harvard Kennedy School

On October 6th, 2016, Associate Professor of History Arianne Chernock is scheduled to give a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program. The talk, entitled “From ‘Right to Rule’ to ‘Right to Reign’? The Problem of Female Monarchy in Victorian Britain,” will take place from 11:40am to 1pm at the WAPPP […]

BU PhD Matthew Pressman Interviewed for Episode of History Slam Podcast

Recent BU History PhD graduate and Assistant Professor of Journalism at Seton Hall University Matt Pressman sat down with Sean Graham of ActiveHistory.ca to discuss American journalism for an episode of the Active History’s podcast “History Slam.” To listen to the podcast, click here.

Professor Menegon Co-organizes Summer Program in Shanghai, China

From August 14 to August 22, 2016, Professor Eugenio Menegon was a co-organizer of the “Fourth International Summer Program in Chinese Religions” at Fudan University’s International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (复旦大学中华文明国际研究中心) in Shanghai, P.R. China. The Program’s topic this year was “Research Methodologies in the Study of Early Modern Chinese-Western Cultural Exchanges,” and […]