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SECOND GLOBAL SEVENTIES CONFERENCE CONVENES IN MÜNSTER, GERMANY

A collaboration between the History Departments at Boston University, the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität (Germany), the Global Seventies project assembles scholars from across the globe to analyze the legacy of a pivotal decade in recent world history.  The collaboration began in November 2011 with an international conference in Boston focusing on the 1970s as […]

Professor Ferleger and Student Magid: “What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe”

In over 200 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, the jobs crisis dominates everyday life, but these communities were experiencing high levels of unemployment long before the Great Recession. They are “distressed areas,” which we define as areas where the unemployment rate has been at least 2 percentage points higher than the national average for at least […]

PhD Graduates Katie Brownell and DJ Cash Get Tenure Track Positions

Two History Department PhD Graduates receive tenure track positions. DJ Cash (GRS ’12) will start his tenure track position at Carroll College, a small liberal arts school in Helena, MT. Katie Brownell (GRS ’11), currently a lecturer in the Department of History, will start her tenure track position this August at Purdue University in West […]