Center Hosts Panel on Graduate School in the Humanities
One question all humanities students have heard from friends, family, and complete strangers after discussing their major is, “What are you planning to do with that?” While some students have clear plans for life after college, others are left fumbling for answers. On January 24, 2022 the Center for Humanities hosted a panel to discuss […]
Abigail Gillman (WLL) Named IAS Distinguished Scholar
Abigail Gillman (CAS World Languages & Literatures and AY2021/2022 BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellow) has been selected as a Distinguished Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University. As a recipient of this prestigious fellowship, Gillman will travel to Tel Aviv in November 2021 where she will spend three months conducting research […]
Center Director Susan Mizruchi Publishes “Henry James: A Very Short Introduction” in OUP Series
In June 2021, Oxford University Press published Susan Mizruchi’s most recent book, Henry James: A Very Short Introduction, in which she which elegantly and economically puts forth insights based on a lifetime of reading and re-reading James. Mizruchi’s July 7 article in Publisher’s Weekly, “The Best of Henry James,” offers a distillation of […]
Announcing the 2021 BUCH Student Awardees
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities recognizes the work of outstanding students in the humanities through student awards and fellowships. Selected undergraduate and graduate applicants receive monetary awards, and selected doctoral candidates nearing the end of their graduate work receive competitive fellowships for the following academic year. This year, our ceremony will […]
The Humanities Intersect with Prison Reform: Piper Kerman on Injustices in the U.S. Prison System
The National Endowment for the Humanities website states that “democracy demands wisdom,” thereby establishing an essential link between the humanities and social justice. It is this connection that the Boston University Center for the Humanities sought to explore at an event co-hosted by the Law Student Affairs Office, the Law Student Government Association, and Kilachand […]
Boston University’s Nominee Selected For Humanities Without Walls Fellowship
Alyssa Kreikemeier (PhD candidate, American & New England Studies) has been awarded a Predoctoral Career Diversity Fellowship with Humanities Without Walls (HWW) for summer 2021. Kreikemeier was the only BU student to be nominated for this prestigious award. Kreikemeier is a “writer, environmental historian, and educationalist” who focuses on the places and people in the North […]
E. Thomas Finan on Reading Reality
New publication by E. Thomas Finan (CGS humanities) – Reading Reality: Nineteenth Century American Experiments in the Real (University of Virginia Press 2021) Reading Reality: Nineteenth Century American Experiments in the Real by E. Thomas Finan, College of General Studies Senior Lecturer in Humanities, was recently published by the University of Virginia Press. The book […]
Workshop on Mapping Christianity in China
The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) is a website dedicated to discovering, preserving, and visualizing the presence of Christianity in China from 1550 to 1950. The CHCD is sponsored by BU’s Center for Global Christianity and Mission, which also supports projects such as the Chinese Christian Poster Project. Since its launch in 2018, the CHCD […]
Jonathan Zatlin on Jewish Dispossession
New publication by Jonathan Zatlin (HI) and Christoph Kreutzmüller – Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry 1933-1953 (University of Michigan 2020) Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933 -1953, a work edited by BU Associate Professor of History and 2018 BUCH Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Jonathan Zatlin and Senior Historian of House of Wannsee Conferences Christoph Kreutzmüller, was just […]
Kim Sichel on Making Strange: the Modernist Photobook in France
New podcast by Kim Sichel (AH) discussing her recent book, Making Strange: the Modernist Photobook in France (Yale 2020). In March, Boston University associate professor of the history of photography and modern art and 2015 BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellow Kim Sichel spoke with Jessica Holahan on the Yale University Press Podcast series (Ep. 79 […]