2026 Student Awardees
Each year, the BU Center for the Humanities recognizes undergraduate and graduate students doing outstanding work in the humanities through endowed awards. The Center also awards four semester-long dissertation fellowships for the coming academic year. Please join us in congratulating the 2026 awardees, who will be honored at a ceremony on May 12. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT […]
Center Hosts 2026 Publication Celebration
On February 25, 2026 the center celebrated twenty publications by BU faculty at its annual humanities publication celebration. Authors represent fifteen departments and programs across three colleges, and their wide-ranging publications include monographs, edited volumes, creative fiction, and literary translations. Authors introduced their publications to each other and enjoyed conversation and refreshments. The Center is […]
Juliet Floyd Reappointed as BUCH Director
On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, Dean of Arts & Sciences Stan Sclaroff formally announced Juliet Floyd’s reappointment as BUCH Director. In his notification email, he graciously thanked Juliet for the excellence that she has demonstrated during her first term, noting that “under her leadership, BUCH has made major contributions to the development of the humanities […]
BU Humanists in the Media
The projects that two former BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellows worked on during their fellowship semesters have been the subject of recent media attention. In her article “Trump’s idea to rename Veterans Day fizzled for a good reason,” published by the LA Times, Joanna Davidson (AN) writes about the study of naming practices that she […]
Save the Date: Spring Lecture in Criticism
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BUCH & CISS Hold Second Annual Grants Day
On Tuesday, October 7, faculty and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences gathered at the Yawkey Center for the second annual Grants Day. This all-day event was co-organized by the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) and the BU Center for Innovation in Social Sciences (CISS). Panelists represented a wide range of experiences […]
Rachel Mesch (RS) Reviews Jim Johnson’s (HI) New Monograph
When Professor Jim Johnson began his ambitious project analyzing the history of the mask in Paris from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, he could not have foreseen how important this object would become to twenty-first century American culture. “We know what it is to wear a mask,” Johnson writes in the afterward to Paris […]
Special Issue: The Journal of Modern Philosophy
The Center is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of The Journal of Modern Philosophy: Imperialism, Racism, and Slavery in the Modern Period, Vol. 6, Issue 2. The Center was delighted to provide support for this publication as well as the 2023 conference “Slavery and Early Modern Philosophy,” which resulted in this […]
Building Awareness of Digital Research Tools through Graduate Workshop
On October 28, 2024, the Center hosted “Reimagining Humanities Research,” a workshop that brought together graduate students across disciplines and departments to learn about digital research methods and tools. Drawing from her experiences working on the Chinese Historical Christian Database under the mentorship of Professor Eugenio Menegon (HI), PhD student Greta Rauch Frei (HI) introduced her peers […]