Johnson Promoted to Rank of Full Professor
President Brown has approved Jim Johnson’s promotion to the rank of Professor effective at the beginning of the next academic year, September 1, 2013.
Phillips’ Article Appears in Massachusetts Historical Review
Professor Sarah Phillips’ review essay, “Histories of Place: Environmental and Landscape Histories of the Northeast” appears in the current issue of the Massachusetts Historical Review. In this wide ranging article, Phillips assesses several recent studies in environmental history.
Schulman Publishes Op-Ed on Rival Claims to Electoral “Mandates”
Reuters recently published Professor Bruce Schulman’s op-ed, an analysis of the rival claims of different parties to a mandate in the wake of the 2012 election. In particular, he finds some strange, and strangely suggestive antecedents for the claims to a separate mandate by Speaker John Boehner and the House Republicans. For more, visit http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/16/boehner-resurrects-the-antebellum-south/
Jonathan Zatlin Elected to Executive Board of the Central European History Society
Professor Jonathan was elected to serve as a Member-at-Large on the Executive Board of the Central European History Society for a three-year term beginning this year. The Central European History Society is one of the most important organization of German historians in North America, and publishes the most influential English-language journal of German and Austrian history, […]
British History Study Abroad Program in London: Fall 2012 Report
Tour of the Liverpool Football Club, September 2012 with the students. From left: Megan Mahoney ’13, Megan McCauley ’14, Samantha Simmons ’14, TF Kathryn Lamontagne, Karina Reddy ’14, Paul Coppola ’14. At BU’s London Study Abroad campus in South Kensington the second intake of British History Track students enjoyed a fantastic Fall semester. This new program allows […]
Chernock Publishes Article on “Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism”
Professor Arianne Chernock contributed an article entitled “Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women’s History” to the edited collection Making Women’s Histories, which has just been published by NYU Press: http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=8033#.UPVjVHeOoh8. Chernock has also accepted an invitation to participate in a conference on “The Moment of British Women’s History: Memories, Celebrations, […]
Two New Articles From Professor Jon Roberts
Jon Roberts has recently published two articles: “Religious Responses to Philosophy in America, 1865-1945,” in The Cambridge History of Religions in America; and “In Defense of Methodological Naturalism,” in Fides et Historia (Winter/Spring 2012)”
Roberts Wins RIHA Grant
Together with Peter Harrison, the Director for the Center of European Discourses at the University of Queensland (Australia), BU History Professor Jon Roberts and has secured a $100,000 grant from the Historical Society’s program in Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs (RIHA). The grant will fund a project that explores the nature of the historical interaction among […]
Graduate Student David Olson Wins Bemis Award
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations recently awarded doctoral candidate David Olson a prestigious Samuel Flagg Bemis Award. The grant will help Olson to visit archival collections in Washington, Ottawa, London, and Paris over the course of the next several months. This research will Olson to complete his dissertation, a cultural and diplomatic […]
Oxford University Press Publishes Backman’s Cultures of the West
In December 2012, Oxford University Press published Associate Professor Clifford Backman’s new book, The Cultures of the West: A History. Designed for classroom use, this book focuses “on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world-for good and for ill”