Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011)
No one expects to hear punk rock blasting from an academic building on quiet Bay State Road. However, this sound was not so unusual within the context of the event that took place at the Initiative on Cities on November 14, 2022: a launch celebration for Assistant Professor Rodrigo Lopes de Barros’s (Romance Studies, LAS, […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Stephanie Sheintul
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Stephanie Sheintul may be new to BU, but she’s ready to jump right into difficult conversations surrounding contemporary topics, and she encourages students to do the same. Sheintul recently received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also acted as an instructor for undergraduate courses on contemporary […]
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 […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Roshaya Rodness
“You raise your camera to capture those dramatic clouds; you look good this evening and film yourself out with friends. You tap the shutter and the images appear, but they look nothing like what you just saw.” Snapping a quick photo, whether you are using a professional camera or your smartphone, can lead to these […]
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 […]
BUCH at National Humanities Advocacy Day
On March 14 and 15, 2022, I attended the National Humanities Alliance’s Annual Meeting and National Humanities Advocacy Day. These events work together to spread the word on current humanities programs and encourage continued federal funding of the humanities. As an undergraduate staff member at the Boston University Center for the Humanities, I addressed the […]
Co-Instructing Spotlight: “African American Literature and the Classical Tradition”
When professors James Uden and Hannah Čulík-Baird refer to co-instructing a course, they prefer to say that the course is “‘group-taught’ rather than ‘co-taught.’” In the fall 2021 semester, Uden and Čulík-Baird paired up to instruct CL200: Topics in Classical Studies, specifically African American Literature and the Classical Tradition. As listed on the BU CAS […]