Meet the Fellows: Joanna Davidson, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Joanna Davidson, Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology, shares the details of her current project, the importance of naming, and the advantages of a BUCH Faculty Fellowship in this short video. Learn more about the Center’s Faculty Fellowships. Video by Roni Lakin (CAS’25, GRS’25)
BUCH Intern Jess Fatzinger featured by CAS
Jess Fatzinger (CAS’24) recently shared her experience working as a BUCH summer intern at the BU African Studies Library in this video from the College of Arts & Sciences. Learn more about the Center’s summer internships for undergraduates in the humanities. Video by Cheryl Lai (CAS’26, COM’26)
Anthony Petro Publishes Article on Naming of HIV/AIDS
Associate Professor of Religion and 2023-24 Henderson Senior Research Fellow Anthony Petro recently published “How HIV/AIDS got its name − the words Americans used for the crisis were steeped in science, stigma and religious language” in The Conversation. “No matter how scientific or objective people hope to be, epidemics are shaped by culture,” wrote Petro, […]
CURA Conference on the Jewish Left
On May 3, 2024, members of the Boston University and larger Boston community gathered at Agganis Arena for the first of a series of conferences on The Jewish Left. Presented by the Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), the oldest center for the study of religion and world affairs in the United States, […]
Congratulations to Faculty Awardees
As the year comes to a close, the Center would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the talented humanities faculty who have received awards this semester. The Center is especially pleased to announce that Center Associate Director and Professor of Religion Margarita Guillory has won the Templeton Award for Excellence in Student Advising for […]
Center Hosts Mathematics with a Human Face
Mathematicians and philosophers gathered in BU’s law building on April 22, 2024, for the inaugural “Mathematics with a Human Face” conference, sponsored by the Center in collaboration with the University of Bergen’s Department of Philosophy and the Norwegian Research Council. The event drew seven speakers from around the world to discuss the role of creativity […]
Center Celebrates Humanities Publications
Scholars and staff from across departments and colleges gathered in CAS on March 28, 2024 to share their recent work and celebrate books with humanistic content published within the last twelve months. The event featured co-authored volumes, translations, and monographs totaling thirteen publications. These publications highlight the importance of humanistic thought and collaborative scholarship in […]
Author David Grann Visits BU for Conversations in the Arts & Ideas
Award-winning author David Grann joined Professor Debbie Danielpour of BU’s College of Communication on February 28th as part of BU’s Conversations in the Arts & Ideas. Grann discussed his life and work, including his books Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and The Wager: A Tale of […]
BU Humanists at Work: Catalina Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish Catalina Rodríguez’s interests are varied, reaching back to nineteenth-century use of gendered pseudonyms and forward to ecofeminist dystopias. Across this breadth, Rodríguez pulls common threads together to form a picture of a Latin America that is both shaped by the past and looking toward the future. Rodríguez first found herself drawn […]
Sunil Sharma Delivers Spring Lecture in Criticism
The Center welcomed Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature Sunil Sharma as the speaker for its spring Lecture in Criticism on February 22, 2024. Sharma spoke on “The Episodic Reception of Medieval Persian Women Poets.” Learn more about the lecture and professor Sharma here.