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“Historian’s Craft” graduate seminar members attend Carlo Ginzburg’s lecture at BU

Famed historian Carlo Ginzburg, author of the classic The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller;  Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath, and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. and numerous important essays on early modern European history and  on historiographical theory,  delivered an exciting lecture entitled “Unintentional Revelations: Reading […]

Professor Brooke Blower Highlighted in BU Today Article

BU Assoc. Professor of History, Brooke Blower, along with Assoc. Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, were featured in a recent BU Today article “Two CAS Scholars Win Respected Fellowships.”  The piece describes the works of Professor Blower and Professor Litvin, as well as the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship each were awarded.   For her term as […]

BU Cuba Alternative Spring Break Course – Experiencing Cuba: History, Politics, and Culture

Guided by Professors Linda Heywood and John Thornton (African American Studies & History), Professor Ana Maria Reyes (CAS assistant professor of Latin American art), and Dr. Amanda Thornton (infectious diseases fellow at Boston Medical Center), thirteen BU students participated in this journey.   During this unforgettable experience, the students were immersed in Cuba’s history and […]