Kate Hollander Awarded Shotwell Prize
Graduate student Kate Hollander has been awarded the Shotwell Prize for her dissertation, which examines a community of German-speaking artists and intellectuals as they formed and participated in a flexible and portable micro-culture between 1900 and 1941. With roots in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this community flourished in Weimar Berlin, then sought refuge in southern Denmark after the […]
Professor Halter’s Modern American Consumer course highlighted in BU Today article
The History of Shopping CAS class studies the modern American consumer By Rich Barlow Link to full article here Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at […]
Professor Johnson awarded ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowships
Professor Jim Johnson of the BU History Department was recently awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. During his ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowship terms, Professor Johnson will be working on Means of Concealment: French Identity and the Self, the follow-up book to Venice Incognito: Masks in […]
Professor Payaslian hosts Kenosian Chair Current Issues Series: “The United Nations, Armenia, and the Sovereignty of Nagorno Karabagh”
On Wednesday evening, March 26, 2014, Amb. Rouben Shougarian and Amb. Armen Baibourtian, former ambassadors of post-Soviet Armenia, spoke at the Kenosian Chair Current Issues Series, “The United Nations Armenia, and the Sovereignty of Nagorno Karabagh,” at Boston University’s Castle. Professor Simon Payaslian, Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University, […]
Professor Backman’s Piracy course featured in BU Today
Professor Clifford Backman’s HI214 course, History of Piracy, was featured in an article on BU Today. The piece by Rich Barlow, “Planting the Jolly Roger in a classroom,” can be accessed here.
Professor Blower publishes article in Diplomatic History
Professor Brooke Blower was recently published in the journal, Diplomatic History. The article, “From Isolationism to Neutrality: A New Framework for Understanding American Political Culture, 1919–1941,” assesses the pitfalls of relying on isolationism to describe American political culture during the 1920s and 1930s and proposes that the concept of neutrality offers a more useful framework for […]
Professor Chernock Receives Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar Award
Please join us in congratulating Professor Arianne Chernock, as she has been granted the Fulbright-King’s College London Scholar Award to pursue research in the United Kingdom next year.
March Department Newsletter Published
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Modern Intellectual History March 2014 Issue Published
HI 175 Student Documentaries on World History – Now Posted
In Fall 2013, 37 students in the course HI 175 – World History to 1500 (mostly non-majors, and many freshmen) engaged in a semester long video-project on nine main topics related to in-class lectures. The class was taught by Professor Eugenio Menegon, with the assistance of videographer Alp Atabay (Ph.D. Student at the BU Editorial institute) […]