Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre Returns to OUP
Hannah Kinney-Kobre, BU Center for the Humanities Senior Staff Assistant emerita and College of Arts & Sciences 2020 graduate in English and Cinema and Media Studies, has accepted a position as an editorial intern at Oxford University Press in New York City. Despite graduating into the worst economy since the Great Depression, Kinney-Kobre’s exceptional academic […]
Message from the Center
We are deeply saddened and angered by the murder of George Floyd by police, which is one in a line of many. The systemic and historically entrenched racism that takes the form of constant harassment and deadly violence against Black people is unacceptable. We lament the lack of national leadership on this issue and support […]
Center Hosts First Annual Humanities Book Publication Party
The BU Center for the Humanities and the Office of the Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities celebrated recent humanities publications by BU faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences at the first annual Humanities Book Publication Party on Tuesday, February 4. Associate Dean Karl Kirchwey and BU Center for the Humanities Director […]
Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre on the Incarceration Film Series
As part of the Center’s efforts to program events on topics of importance to the BU community, we launched a film series on the subject of incarceration and on Thursday, November 21, we hosted our inaugural screening. I conceived, programmed, and planned the event with Christine D’Auria, the Center’s graduate student intern. We’re grateful to […]
Center for the Humanities Welcomes Visiting Scholars
Two visiting scholars, Kyoko Miwa and Laetitia Zecchini, are enriching the BU Center for the Humanities’ intellectual community as they undertake cutting-edge humanities research in our office suite. Miwa and Zecchini come to Boston from Japan and France, respectively. Miwa, sponsored by the American & New England Studies program, comes to BU from Toho University […]
Forum 2019: Call for an Active Audience
Students, staff, administrators, lecturers, senior and junior faculty will come together to engage in dialogue about the limits and possibilities of the academy and talk about the issues that matter to us at Forum 2019 on October 3 at WBUR CitySpace. This is a plea for an active audience. After all, we cannot break down […]
Reflection: Rachel Kirby’s PhD Internship in the Humanities with the Boston Red Sox
Many graduate students have a favorite work spot, but few can say that they’ve written in an empty, sun-drenched Fenway Park while perched atop the Green Monster. Yet Rachel Kirby, PhD candidate in the American & New England Studies program at BU, had this unique experience, among many others, while working with the Boston Red […]
Reflection: Arthur Kamya’s PhD Internship in the Humanities at the Boston Athenæum
It’s not surprising to find in the archives of the Boston Athenæum a scholar of seventeenth-century Massachusetts, such as Arthur Kamya, PhD candidate in BU’s American & New England Studies program; however, the opportunity for him to undertake a specialized secondary school curriculum development project on U.S. women’s political history under the auspices of a […]
2018/2019 Student Award Winners Announced
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities gives awards ranging from $1,500 to $7,000 to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in the Humanities. The achievements of these students will be celebrated at our annual Student Awards Ceremony at 11 a.m. on May 14, 2019 at 1 Silber Way, Trustee Center Ballroom, 9th floor.
2019/2020 Graduate Dissertation Fellows Announced
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities awards dissertation fellowships to outstanding doctoral candidates in the Humanities nearing the end of their graduate work at BU. Along with our Faculty Fellows, Dissertation Fellows participate in our Fellows Seminars and are eligible to receive office space at the Center’s suite. The Center is pleased […]