Five History Students Honored with Center for Humanities Awards

The Boston University Center for Humanities recently recognized five history students with differing awards. The undergraduates honored are as follows: The John Oddy Memorial Award Caroline Foley, Classical Studies & History The Robert E. Yellin Award  Kal Hawley, History Simone Redensky, History The graduate students honored are as follows: The Helen G. Allen Humanities Award […]

Prof Chad Williams Elected to the Society of American Historians

Please join the department in congratulating Professor Chad Williams, Tomorrow Foundation Chair of American Intellectual History, in his election to the Society of American Historians (SAH). Members of the Society are elected “based on achievement in the vivid and compelling presentation of history and biography in a variety of forms, including books, essays, film, drama, […]

Prof Bruce Schulman Named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2025, Inducted into the 100th Class

William E. Huntington Professor of History Bruce Schulman was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow, inducted into the 100th class. Professor Schulman plans to use the award’s funding to contribute to the multivolume Oxford History of the United States. You can click here to read more about his project. Please join the History Department in congratulating Professor […]

Joseph Boskin, Professor Emeritus, Passes Away

The Department is saddened to share the news that Professor Emeritus, Joseph Boskin, passed away on February 16, 2025. Professor Boskin was Professor of History through the 2000-01 academic year and he continued to teach in Boston University’s Metropolitan College afterwards.  Professor Boskin was the subject of a recent story in The New York Times, detailing […]

BU Ph.D. Alum Kathryn Brownell Wins an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

Kathryn (Katie) Brownell, an alum of the History Department’s Ph.D. program and current associate professor of history at Purdue University, won a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Please join the department in congratulating her on this incredible achievement!

Prof Bruce Schulman Named as Semi-Finalist for Cherry Award

William E. Huntington Professor of History Bruce Schulman was recently named the national semi-finalist for the Robert Foster Cherry award for exceptional teachers. Professor Schulman is “especially grateful to my students current and past who participated in the nomination process.” Click here to learn more about the Cherry Award.

History Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 25: Brianna Tafolla Rivière

The History Department is excited to announce that Brianna Tafolla Rivière will be joining our faculty as Assistant Professor of History in Fall 2025! Brianna Tafolla Rivière is a historian of Twentieth-Century, North American Indigenous history. Her dissertation, “Reel Red Power: Indigenous Activism, Visual Sovereignty, and the Film Industry,” focuses on the effort of Native […]

Professor Brooke Blower Promoted

The Department of History is thrilled to announce that Professor Brooke Blower has been promoted from Associate Professor of History to Professor of History. Please congratulate Professor Blower on this wonderful accomplishment!