Prof. Ferleger Co-authors Article on Trump’s Trade Policy for History News Network
On Sunday, February 12th, 2017, the History News Network published a piece by Department Chair and Professor of History, Louis Ferleger, and Jay Mandle, Professor of Economics at Colgate University. The article, titled “Trump is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs. But His Solution Is Terrible,” can be read here at historynewsnetwork.org.
PhD Candidate David Shorten Publishes Article on HNN about Historical Comparisons to Trump
BU doctoral candidate David Shorten published an op-ed on the History News Network yesterday, January 29th, 2017. The article, titled “The Three Problems with Historical Comparisons to Trump” is available to view on HNN.com here.
Prof. Blower Delivers Bernath Lecture at American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Professor Brooke Blower delivered the Bernath lecture at the American Historical Association annual convention in Denver on January 6, 2017. The Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize is one of the signature prizes awarded each year by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Blower’s talk will be published in article form in the […]
Prof. Schulman’s History of Media and Politics Course Featured in BU Today
Today’s issue of BU Today featured Professor of History Bruce Schulman’s Fall 2016 Special Topics course on the History of Media and Politics in the 20th Century, which met with with COM Professor of Journalism Christopher Daly’s course on The Presidency and the Media. The article, titled “Assignment: Write Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address,” highlights some student […]
BU History PhD David Atkinson Releases Book on UNC Press
The University of North Carolina Press has just published The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States, a book by BU History Ph.D. David Atkinson. Currently Assistant Professor of History at Purdue, Atkinson’s book, based on his BU doctoral dissertation, offers a comparative history of immigration restriction across the […]
History PhD Anne Blaschke Publishes Post on Sports and Politics to Oxford U. Press Blog
On January 4th, 2017, Anne Blaschke, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross and 2012 BU History PhD graduate, published a post titled “The Continued Relevance of Sport Diplomacy” on the Oxford University Press blog. Click here to read the post at OUPblog.
PhD Candidate Philip Rotz Publishes Article in South African Historical Journal
The South African Historical Journal recently published graduate student Philip Rotz’s article, “Sweetness and Fever? Sugar Production, Aedes aegypti, and Dengue Fever in Natal, South Africa, 1926-27.” Phil’s article began in Prof. Sarah Phillips’ agricultural history seminar and Profs. James McCann and Richard Pollack (then with BU’s Biology Department) offered helpful feedback. “Sweetness and Fever” received the Graduate Essay Prize at the Southern […]
Now Available: The December 2016 Issue of the History Department Newsletter, The Presence of the Past
The December 2016 issue of the department newsletter The Presence of the Past is now available to view online. Click here to find out more about the new books, articles, panels, and parties at the BU Department of History. For past issues of the newsletter, visit the History Department’s archives.
Prof. Zatlin Assembles American Historical Review Conversation on “Reconceptualizing the 20th Century”
The current issue of the American Historical Review features a “Conversation” about reconceptualizing the twentieth century that Professor Jonathan Zatlin conceived and edited. The publication, entitled “History after the End of History: Reconceptualizing the Twentieth Century,” grew out of a Mellon Sawyer Seminar that Zatlin together with his colleagues Andrew Bacevich, Brooke Blower, and Bruce Schulman […]
Professor Menegon Organizes Panel on Jesuits in China at Boston College
On November 29, 2016 Professor Eugenio Menegon organized a panel entitled “Four Centuries of Jesuit History in China” on behalf of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (IAJS) and the Asian Studies Program at Boston College. Professor Menegon received a Senior Fellowship at IAJS last Spring and was recently named Affiliated Scholar at the Institute. […]