5th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY EXPLORES “THE SIXTIES at 50.”
On March 22-23, 2013 the BU APHI held its fifth annual Boston University Graduate Student American Political History Conference. The theme this year was “The Sixties @ 50” and graduate students from across the country, as well as several from the History and American Studies departments at BU, weighed-in on this topic from a diversity […]
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 […]
Upcoming Event: A Celebration of the Career of Tom Glick
Student Blogs on Professor Phillips’ ML 713: Agricultural History
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Co-Sponsored by BU History: The 21st Annual Graduate Conference in African Studies
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Graduate Student David Olson Wins Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship
Graduate student David Olson was awarded the Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship by the University of Chicago. He will be the 2013 Hans Lenneberg Fellow and will spend August conducting research in their libraries.
Professor Haberkern Featured Once More in BU Today: ‘Taking the Measure of Pope Francis’
The world is still taking the measure of the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and BU Today turned again to Phillip Haberkern for his assessment of the 76-year-old pope. See the full story here
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 […]
Graduate Student Mark Kukis’ work posted on History News Network
“What the U.S. Invasion Looked Like to Iraqis” See the full article here: http://bit.ly/15W2Zvh
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 […]