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)
BU Humanists at Work: Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor of Russian & Comparative Literature
Dr. Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor of Russian & Comparative Literature was one of two BU professors to be awarded a highly competitive 2024-2025 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a recipient, Corrigan will spend this academic year working on his book project, Chekhov’s Ethics: From Anesthetics to Antidotes. The book will explore […]
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)
Virtual Exhibit Launch
During an inaugural PhD Summer Internship in the Humanities at the newly founded Race and Regency Lab, Constanza Robles (HAA) curated a virtual exhibit, Visualizing Property, which centers on a 1772 manuscript plan of Belvidere plantation in Jamaica, home to hundreds of enslaved people (c.1600–18333). The exhibit showcases different objects –maps, ceramics, prints, and documents– to contextualize the map […]
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, […]
Adam Seligman Published New Monograph
Congratulations to Professor of Religion Adam Seligman, whose monograph, Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis, was recently published in August 2024 by De Gruyter Press with a publication subvention from BUCH. Oaths and Vows “focuses on private vows and oaths including those publicly proclaimed, seeking to uncover a phenomenology of oaths and vows through analysis […]
Ana Villarreal’s JFF Book Project Published
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Sociology Ana Villarreal, whose monograph, The Two Faces of Fear: Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Villarreal’s work on this book project was supported by a AY 19-20 BUCH Junior Faculty Fellowship. Taking Villareal’s native Monterrey, Mexico as a case study, The […]
Mathematics with a Human Face Recording Now Available
The Center is pleased to share that a full recording of Mathematics with a Human Face is now available online. 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 […]
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 […]