Seth Blumenthal, Michael Holm and Jonathan Koefoed Win Dissertation Fellowships

The winners of this year’s Robert V. Shotwell Dissertation Fellowship are Seth Blumenthal, Michael Holm, and Jonathan Koefoed. The fellowship is named after Robert Shotwell, father to one BU alum and grandfather to a current student, and brings the quality of persistence to this scholarship. Graduate students are known for procrastination, taking longer and longer […]

Prof. Ferleger and Undergrad Jacob Magid Published

Professor Louis Ferleger and undergraduate student Jacob Magid publish new study of persistent unemployment.  Their new article investigates some of America’s “dead zones” and discusses how to move stalled economies.  For more, visit http://www.alternet.org/economy/155731/how_to_end_the_nightmare_of_jobless_america  

Prof. Chernock Featured in The New York Times

Prof. Arianne Chernock is featured today in the Arts section of The New York Times. You can find the article here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/arts/amid-diamond-jubilee-fever-scholars-reflect-on-monarchy.html?_r=1&gwh=64AFFBDE08345F24772EDFD9344E3677 http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/31/why-do-americans-love-the-british-royal-family/americans-have-a-long-history-of-royal-watching

Zach Fredman Wins GRAF

Zach Fredman won a short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. He will be using the GRAF to make a preliminary research trip to China this August. Zach is still working on his dissertation prospectus, so he hasn’t finalized plans for the trip but will most likely visit the National Library in Beijing and the Chongqing Municipal […]

Matt Pressman Wins Research Paper Prize

First year graduate student Matthew Pressman wins the History Department’s  “Outstanding First Year Graduate Research Paper Prize,” for his paper Black and White and Red All Over? Reassessing Newspapers’ Role in the Red Scare of 1919. Congratulations to him!

Graduate Sarah Westwood Wins GRAF!

Graduate student Sarah Westwood wins a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. She will be using the GRAF to conduct preliminary research in France for her dissertation on the development and evolution of the Senegalese army; the focus of her study is how Senegal became the only country in West Africa to avoid a military coup or […]

Prof. Sarah Phillips Promoted

Professor Sarah Phillips has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure by the Provost and President. Congratulations! Sarah Phillips, CAS, History, specializes in environmental, agricultural and 20thcentury U.S. political history. The author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (2007) and a forthcoming book on post WWII farm-to-food politics, she has written […]

Graduating Seniors Elected To Join Phi Beta Kappa

Graduating seniors Charles Begue Fawell, Daniel Edmund Mucinskas, Caitlin Anne O’Halloran, and Muna S. Sheikh, have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Epsilon of Massachusetts Chapter at Boston University.  Their election to the Society recognizes their demonstrated high level of scholarship and academic achievement in the Liberal Arts. There will be […]

History Undergrads Win Center for the Humanities Award

Undergrads Elise Alexander and Sabrina Mullen each win a Boston University Center for the Humanities Student Award. The awards are given out to to undergraduates in their sophomore or junior year who are declared majors in a humanities department. They will be honored at a reception with the Deans of the College of Arts and […]