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”
Calll for Papers: 21st Annual BU Graduate Student Conference in African Studies, March 29-30, 2013
History Newsletter Released
The January issue of Presence of the Past is now out and available here. Stories include: . Presentation at the Massachusetts Historical Society by students of new history course HI190: Making History . Professor Charlie Capper’s tribute to his long-time mentor . Sabbatical update from professors abroad
BU History Internship Panel and Workshop – Jan. 28th @ 6:30pm
Upcoming LANDMARKS Event – Machiavelli’s The Prince After 500 Years
Poverty and the Rights of Children in Armenia, Public Lecture by Armine K. Hovannisian
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—Armine Hovannisian, executive director of Junior Achievement of Armenia and founder of the NGO Orran, gave a public lecture on Sunday, November 11, 2012, on the current state of children in Armenia in the context of high levels of poverty. The event was organized by the Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in […]