Prof. Blower Publishes New Article in Diplomatic History

In the June 2017 issue of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’s journal Diplomatic History, Associate Professor of History Brooke Blower published a new article titled “Nation of Outposts: Forts, Factories, Bases, and the Making of American Power.” The article is available to view at Oxford University Press’s website here.

PhD Graduate Matthew Pressman Receives AJHA Blanchard Dissertation Prize

BU History PhD graduate Matthew Pressman, now an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Seton Hall University, was awarded the 2016 AJHA Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association for his dissertation, Remaking the News: The Transformation of American Journalism, 1960-1980.

Prof. Zatlin Honored with 2017 Excellence in Student Advising Award

For his work with student theater group Wandering Minds, Associate Professor Jonathan Zatlin was given the 2016-2017 Excellence in Student Advising Award by the Boston University Student Activities Organization. Of the award, the SAO writes that advisors are “recognized for their ability to balance multiple roles while remaining focused on the achievement of organizational goals, […]

Prof. Ferleger and Prof. Zatlin Publish Op-Ed on Trump on HNN

History Department Chair and Professor Louis Ferleger and Associate Professor Jonathan Zatlin yesterday, April 23rd, published an article on the History News Network. The op-ed, titled “Trump Is Right about One Thing,” can viewed at historynewsnetwork.org here.

Gitner Teaching Awards in History Go to Prof. Phil Haberkern and TF Ryan Shaver

  The 2017 recipients of the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Undergraduate Teaching Prizes in History are Assistant Professor Phillip Haberkern and PhD candidate Ryan Shaver. Faculty recipient Phil Haberkern is distinguished by his many innovative undergraduate courses including HI 191: What is Europe? Ryan Shaver, Teaching Fellow Recipient, was cited as “an unusually committed and […]

Professor Chernock’s Fashion as History Course Field Trips Featured in BU Today

As part of their One Class, One Day series, BU Today featured two field trips that Professor Arianne Chernock’s seminar course HI 451: Fashion as History take this semester. The class first visits Lauren Whitley, the senior curator of textile and fashion arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, then the Peabody Essex Museum to see the exhibition Shoes: […]

Daily Free Press Covers History Event on Chinese-British Relations

The Daily Free Press in an article entitled “History professors discuss China and Great Britain’s relationship” covered a recent event organized by Professors Eugenio Menegon and Arianne Chernock, with the support of the BU Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia and the International History Institute. The panel  “China and Britain: War […]

Prof. Chernock Participates in WBUR Radio Open Source Broadcast

On a recent episode of WBUR’s Radio Open Source titled “American (De)generations: Turning the wheel of history in the Trump era” Associate Professor of History Arianne Chernock participated in a panel discussion with three other scholars to evaluate the cyclical Strauss-Howe model of history in the context of the current Trump presidency. Listen to the broadcast […]

China and the World: Recent Talks and Publications by Professor Menegon

Professor Menegon presented a paper on March 18, 2017 at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Toronto, Canada, in a panel entitled “Information, Texts, and Intermediaries in the Making of Global Knowledge about Late Imperial China.” The paper, entitled “Court Missionaries as Imperial Informants in Early Modern China and Europe” discussed […]