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.
BU Faculty Receive NEH Awards
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Two BU professors received National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship awards for the 2024-2025 cycle. Congratulations to Joseph Rezek, Associate Professor of English and Director of AMNESP, and to Yuri Corrigan, Associate Professor of Russian & […]
Center Launches Digital Humanities Initiative with Reception
On Thursday, November 9, 2023, the Center welcomed over thirty faculty members, administrators, graduate students, and undergraduates to Building Bridges: Connecting the Humanities and Technology. Attendees represented many departments and programs as well as schools and colleges. Conceived as a meet and greet, the crowd enjoyed lively conversation over refreshments and took full advantage of […]
Associate Director Margarita Guillory Speaks at 2023 Gitner Lecture
The annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture is designed to highlight current CAS faculty members, in any field, whose teaching and research addresses topics of major importance for the broad interest and benefit of the BU community. In 2023, the Gitner Lecture explored the question “What does it mean […]
New Books From Faculty Coming This Fall
This fall, the Center is pleased to announce the publication of three new books that received subventions from the Center. In late August, Oxford University Press published Brooke L. Blower’s (HI) Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper. In her latest book, Blower uses a single […]