Prof. Ben Siegel elected to BU Center for the Study of Asia’s Board

Professor Benjamin Siegel (South Asian History; https://www.bu.edu/history/resources/faculty/benjamin-siegel/) was elected as a new member of the Executive Board of the BU Center for the Study of Asia. Professor Siegel offers below some thoughts on how he can contribute to the growth of Asian History and Asian Studies in his new position: In my second semester at Boston […]

Professor Blower’s new co-authored book just out with Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press has just released The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn, a work co-authored by BU History Professor, Brooke Blower and Mark Philip Bradley (University of Chicago). “In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop […]

“Historian’s Craft” graduate seminar members attend Carlo Ginzburg’s lecture at BU

Famed historian Carlo Ginzburg, author of the classic The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller;  Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath, and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. and numerous important essays on early modern European history and  on historiographical theory,  delivered an exciting lecture entitled “Unintentional Revelations: Reading […]

Professor Brooke Blower Highlighted in BU Today Article

BU Assoc. Professor of History, Brooke Blower, along with Assoc. Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, were featured in a recent BU Today article “Two CAS Scholars Win Respected Fellowships.”  The piece describes the works of Professor Blower and Professor Litvin, as well as the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship each were awarded.   For her term as […]