Graduating History Department Seniors Zanella and Gillies receive CAS Writing Awards
The History Department is proud to announce that two of our graduating seniors were awarded a whopping two out of four total CAS writing awards. Alexaundra Zanella received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences, and Conor Gillies received the Award for Writing Excellence in […]
Professor Arianne Chernock awarded BUCH award for “Female Authority” Colloquium
Along with Professors Jim Schmidt, Susanne Sreedhar, and Aaron Garrett, Professor Chernock is planning a colloquium on “Female Authority,” which will take place next spring (April 4, 2014). The 1-day colloquium will explore the ways in which female power, and the concept of women’s agency more broadly conceived, were constituted, represented and defended during the […]
Modern Intellectual History April 2013 Issue Published
Charles Capper edits Modern Intellectual History. His coeditors are Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge), Anthony La Vopa (N.C. State), and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University). Published by Cambridge University Press, the journal serves as a focal point and forum for scholarship in intellectual history and related fields. Though its primary focus is on Europe and the […]
Graduate Student Zach Fredman Wins Boren Fellowship
Graduate student Zach Fredman was awarded a Boren Fellowship, allowing him to do up to a year of research in China. Boren Fellowships provide U.S. graduate students the opportunity to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. For more details see: http://borenawards.org/boren_fellowship/basics.html
Grad. Student Zach Fredman Checks-In From China
Graduate Student Zach Fredman updates the department on his research trip to China: I wrapped up my first major archival research segment today–the Yunnan Provincial Archives in Kunming. I spent more than two months here. I’m off to Rangoon next Wednesday to spend a week looking at the pre-1948 collections at the Myanmar National Archives.
Professor Menegon Presents Research in San Diego and at Brandeis
Professor Eugenio Menegon presented his current research on Europeans, Western commodities, and gift-giving strategies in late imperial Beijing at the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego on March 22, 2013 (http://bit.ly/10fqWZ5/). For another presentation at Brandeis University’s East Asian Studies Program Colloquium on April 23, 2013, entitled “The Emperor’s Clockmaker: Gifts and Power Networking […]
Grad Student Ben Kochan Wins Gotlieb Award
History Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Kochan is a winner of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Student Book Collecting Contest. Congratulations Ben!
Professor McCann recieves 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History
The ASEH Distinguished Scholar Award is given every two years to an individual who has contributed significantly to environmental history scholarship. Past award winners have included Richard White, William Cronon, Carolyn Merchant, Donald Worster, Alfred Crosby, and Samuel Hays. Professor McCann will accept the award in San Francisco in March.
Blower Publishes Review Essay
Professor Brooke Blower’s review essay, “Anti-Americanism Encore Une Fois,” appears in the current issue of Diplomatic History. For more, visit http://dh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/02/dh.dht021.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=dfzzuAYWwNQJKlB
Professor Keylor on Rising Tensions in North Korea
International relations professor William Keylor recently spoke with WCVB-TV in Boston discussing what these actions by North Korea mean to the Korean Peninsula and the world. Keylor is the author of A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945. Click here for the full story