HI 574: Introduction to Critical University Studies: Space, Place, and BU

Spring 2024 – Nina Silber and Paula Austin

This team-taught seminar uses the lens of “critical university studies” to consider the ways colonialism and white supremacy have shaped the history of American universities. Readings and archival research examine land appropriation, slavery and anti-slavery, segregation, and policing at Boston University. Effective Spring 2024, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Writing-Intensive, Historical Consciousness.

*Meets with CAS AA 574*

 Instructors:

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  Paula C. Austin

  Associate Professor of History and African American and Black Diaspora Studies

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  Nina Silber

  Jon Westling Professor of History