Center Hosts Annual Humanities Book Publication Celebration
Conversation abounded in CAS on March 23, 2023, as scholars and staff from across humanities and adjacent departments gathered to celebrate humanistic publications by BU faculty published within the last twelve months. The event highlighted 17 humanities publications ranging from monographs to anthologies to two thousand-page volumes.These publications evidenced the importance of the spirit of […]
2023 BUCH Student Awards Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize Kit Houng Li Classical Studies The John Oddy Memorial Award Vivian Dai Classical Studies Mairead Downes Classical Studies & History Aarohi Goel Classical Studies Anna Rafferty English & American Studies Emma Rits Biology & Mathematics The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award Nathaniel Ceus Philosophy Christopher James […]
Celebrating New Humanities Publications by CAS Faculty
The Center for Humanities celebrates 17 recent publications by CAS humanities faculty at a Book Publication Party on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 5:30pm. To attend, please write to buch@bu.edu. The list of publications includes monographs, memoirs, edited volumes, fiction, and other works across a variety of disciplines. To learn more, click on each book’s […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English Maia Gil’Adí is a big horror fan, but her studies of the genre reach beyond the typical slasher flick. “I’m a consumer of all types of horror from the most basic to the most disgusting. I love it all,” Gil’Adí said, “but the horror that I study isn’t necessarily the type […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Celebrating Humanities Book Publications in AY 21-22
We hope you enjoy our booklet featuring recent humanities publications by BU faculty. This catalogue represents the broad scope of work in the humanities in our community. We are inspired by the breadth of these publications, which span so many genres, disciplines, methodologies, subjects, languages, and time periods. To learn more about any work in […]