Alumni Night Round Up

History Beyond BU   On October 11, the Undergraduate History Association and the History Department hosted “History Beyond BU,” an event which brought back former BU history majors to discuss how they have used their history degrees in various fields, including business, law, consulting, and medicine.  An outstanding success, this event highlighted the important analytical, […]

BU’s American Political History Institute Co-Hosts Major Conference on Presidential History

On Friday and Saturday, October 26-27, 2012,  at the University of Virginia, a group of eminent scholars gathered to discuss how to advance the study of presidential history. The conference, entitled “Recasting Presidential History” and co-organized by Professor Brian Balogh of UVA and Professor Bruce Schulman of BU, was a joint undertaking of BU’s American […]

Announcing the next Forum for Young Scholars on East European Jewry

The BU History Department and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies are cooperating with Nevzlin Center at Hebrew University in organizing the Sixth Session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, to be held this July in Odessa, Ukraine. This is an ongoing forum, comprised of 15 advanced PhD students (ABD) and […]

Ph.D Grad Publishes New Book

Madia Thompson (GRS ’05) has published The Demise of Slavery in southwestern Morocco with The Edwin Mellen Press which was based on her dissertation.

Prof. Chernock Quoted in The New Republic

Professor Arianne Chernock has been quoted in a piece published in The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107508/why-the-british-press-cant-figure-out-what-it-wants-kate-middleton

Undergrad Rachel Klepper Wins Essay Prize

Undergraduate history major Rachel Klepper, has just won a North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize for her paper “Huguenot and Jewish Settlement in Spitalfields, London: ‘the Middle Ground Between Civilization and Barbarism”, which she wrote while on the London Study Abroad program. This is a very selective award and if you see […]

Professor Simon Payaslian Publishes “Diasporan Subalternities”

Professor Simon Payaslian, Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, has published an article in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 16:1/2 (2007 [2012]), the leading journal in diaspora studies. The article, entitled “Diasporan Subalternities: The Armenian Community in Syria,” examines the evolution and decline of the Armenian community in that country. The analysis […]