Katie Brownell Publishes SNL Op-Ed for Reuters

Recent BU Ph.D. and Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University, Dr. Katie Brownell published a new op-ed for Reuters, “How ‘Saturday Night Live’ brought down the presidency (to our level).” Link to full text: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/02/13/how-saturday-night-live-brought-down-the-presidency-to-our-level/

Christine Axen Wins 2015 AHA Poster Session Award

Please join us in congratulating grad student Christine Axen, the winner of this year’s poster session competition at the AHA Annual Meeting.  According to the AHA, there were about 140 proposals for 48 slots.  Of the 48, Christine’s was judged best.   Great job, Christine! http://blog.historians.org/2015/02/show-dont-tell-posters-crafting-history/

2/10 6PM: Sawyer lecture: THE WORLD HISTORICAL AND CHINA’S 20TH CENTURY

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 at 6:00pm Location: Colloquium Room (9th Floor) at B.U.’s Photonics Center (8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215) REBECCA KARL (N.Y.U.) will deliver the lecture: “The World Historical and China’s 20th Century: Perspectives on Globalization and Globality” PLEASE NOTE: The spring Sawyer lectures begin at 6:00pm. The lecture is free and open to […]

POSTPONED – THE SOMME, THE SUFFRAGISTS AND THE GATLING GUN

The Sawyer Seminar Lecture “The Somme, the Suffragists and the Gatling Gun” by Cynthia Enloe (Clark) has been resecheduled due to the impending storm.  The talk will instead take place on April 14 at 6pm in the School of Education (SED) 2 Silber Way – Room 130.

*African American Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy* to be released February 2015

Edited by BU Professor of African American Studies and History Linda Heywood, and Emeritus Professor of History Allison Blakely, African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy is an anthology that “expands on the scope and themes of recent collections to offer the most up-to-date scholarship… essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, […]

2/3/15 – BUCSA Asian Studies Lunch: “American GIs and Chinese Women: The 1945 Chongqing Jeep Girl Crisis” – a talk by Zach Fredman

Starts: 12:30pm on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Ends: 2:00pm on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, Seminar Room, 121 Bay State Road, Boston University   Grad student Zach Fredman shows us how friction over sexual relations between GIs and Chinese women poisoned ties between American servicemen and the Chinese they interacted with […]

1/27 6PM: Sawyer lecture: THE SOMME, THE SUFFRAGISTS AND THE GATLING GUN

Please join us at Boston University on Tuesday January 27, for the first spring 2015 lecture in our continuing John E. Sawyer series, “Reinterpreting the Twentieth Century.” TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 at 6:00pm Location: Colloquium Room (9th Floor) at B.U.’s Photonics Center (8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215) CYNTHIA ENLOE (Clark University) will deliver the lecture: […]

BU History Faculty in the ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection

Seven current faculty members of the Boston University History Department had their monographs selected so far for inclusion in the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book (HEB) online collection (www.humanitiesebook.org). The collection contains approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription, and inclusion of a title signifies its importance for the field […]

Professor Keylor’s Commentary: Anti-Semitism in France

William Keylor, professor of International Relations and History, wrote a reflection on the scourge of anti-Semitism in France for the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Link to full text article: http://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/2015/01/14/keylor-anti-semitism-in-france/