2023 BUCH Student Awards Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize Kit Houng Li Classical Studies The John Oddy Memorial Award Vivian Dai Classical Studies Mairead Downes Classical Studies & History Aarohi Goel Classical Studies Anna Rafferty English & American Studies Emma Rits Biology & Mathematics The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award Nathaniel Ceus Philosophy Christopher James […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Timothy Clark
“The field is changing, and you might be surprised by how it illuminates or gives you new perspectives about the modern world,” says Timothy Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies. While Clark acknowledges that “sitting around reading Latin and thinking big thoughts” is still a “valuable part of the classical studies discipline,” the associated […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Amy Hutchinson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics Amy Hutchinson stumbled into linguistics by accident. As a freshmen at the University of South Florida, she set out to major in Public Health. After quickly realizing that Public Health wasn’t the right fit, she switched to an International Business major, which required her to become proficient in a foreign […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Micah Goodrich
Micah Goodrich’s scholarship knits together his two specialties in seemingly disjunct areas: medieval studies and trans studies. His recent and current work considers what he’s coined as “trans natures,” or “ways of inhabiting a body and inhabiting an environment that are in dialogue with medieval natural philosophy.” In his publications and in the classroom, he […]
Published Work by BUCH Undergraduate Interns
The BUCH Summer Internships in the Humanities program is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply the skills they are cultivating in the academy to public-facing institutions and businesses that serve greater Boston. For two undergraduate interns, the very nature of their work was public-facing and highly visible. Interns Danielle Momoh and Charlotte […]
2022 BUCH Interns in the Humanities
Internships in the humanities provide undergraduates and PhD students with paid opportunities to apply the skills they’ve cultivated as students of the humanities to public-facing institutions throughout Greater Boston. In summer 2022, students representing a variety of academic disciplines will work at a record number of partnering institutions. Congratulations to the 2022 internship recipients! Summer […]
2022 BUCH Student Awards Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize Nicole Beymer Classical Studies & Linguistics The John Oddy Memorial Award Lindsay Allebest History Geethika Bodanapu Medical Science Hewlett Angela Chao Architectural Studies Zowie Rico Classical Studies Nicolette Aimee Salmi Classical Studies & History Sandya Subramanian Medical Science Iris Zheng English The Alice M. Brennan Humanities […]
Celebrating Humanities Book Publications in AY 21-22
We hope you enjoy our booklet featuring recent humanities publications by BU faculty. This catalogue represents the broad scope of work in the humanities in our community. We are inspired by the breadth of these publications, which span so many genres, disciplines, methodologies, subjects, languages, and time periods. To learn more about any work in […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Amanda Lee
When Amanda Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor in French in the Department of Romance Studies, came across the job post for her current position, she was delighted that it called for a “scholar” and “practitioner.” For Lee, who is both an academic and a dancer/choreographer, the unusual inclusion of the word “practitioner” conjured an image of […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Jim Carter
“I liked telling stories as a kid. I always had a video camera in my hand and was employing my sisters or cousins as actors and actresses. I wanted to continue to tell stories in a professional way,” said Dr. Jim Carter. Carter joined the BU faculty this semester as Lecturer in Italian. While Carter […]