BU Folger Institute Consortium Membership
Thanks to Boston University’s membership in the Folger Institute Consortium, BU faculty and graduate students are eligible for priority consideration in admission and for grants-in-aid to cover admission, travel, and housing expenses related to research undertaken at the Folger Institute. There are opportunities for people working in a wide range of disciplines. Please visit the […]
A Celebration of Humanities Journals
On February 5, 2019, the Center cosponsored with the Office of the Associate Dean of Faculty/Humanities “A Celebration of Boston University Humanities Journals.” The event featured a panel of editors representing six nationally celebrated Humanities journals, all of which are associated with BU. The journals featured were AGNI, Arion, The Black Scholar, The Journal of […]
Red Sox Podcasts Coproduced by 2018 Summer PhD Internship Awardee Chris Stokum
During his internship at the Boston Red Sox, one of the 2018 Summer Internships for BU Humanities PhD Candidates, Chris Stokum produced a series of podcasts presented as part of a promotional package for the Harvard-Yale game on November 17, 2018. Listen to the podcasts by following the links below: Episode 1: https://gordonedes.net/2018/11/16/get-in-the-game-harvard-yale-at-fenway/ Episode 2: https://gordonedes.net/2018/11/16/get-in-the-game-harvard-yale-the-history-episode-2/ Episode […]
The Howard Thurman Papers Project
This year the BU Center for the Humanities supported the Howard Thurman Papers Project, an effort to digitize the papers of Howard Washington Thurman at Boston University. Silvia Glick, a doctoral candidate at the Editorial Institute and Howard Thurman Papers Project Associate Managing Editor worked for the past year to significantly improve the Project’s website. […]
Professor Abigail Gillman Publishes “A History of German Jewish Bible Translation”
Congratulations to Professor Abigail Gillman, Associate Professor of Hebrew, German & Comparative Literature in WLL, and a Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow in 14/15, on her newest publication: A History of German Jewish Bible Translation (The University of Chicago Press). “This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish […]
Professor Fallou Ngom Awarded Herskovits Prize
Congratulations to Professor Fallou Ngom on being awarded the prestigious Melville J. Herskovits Prize! The Herskovits Prize is given to the most important scholarly work in African Studies published in English each year, and was awarded to Professor Ngom for his book, Muslims Beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya (Oxford […]
Battle of the Sexes Screening and Q&A
We’d like to thank directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for graciously taking the time to show us their new film Battle of the Sexes and talk with students about the film afterwards. It was a great discussion, and the audience learned a lot about filmmaking and the history behind the film. Students even got […]
Boston University Welcomes Louis Chude-Sokei
Louis Chude-Sokei joined the Boston University faculty this fall. He is a Professor of English as well as the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies and the Director of the African American Studies Program. Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on the literary, political, and cultural implications and ramifications […]
BUCH Director Professor Susan Mizruchi Installed as William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities
On November 21st, Center for the Humanities Director Professor Susan Mizruchi will be installed by Dean Ann Cudd as the inaugural William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities in an event celebrating the installment of five newly appointed CAS endowed chairs at the university. The gift agreement with the Arrowsmith family states that “the William Arrowsmith […]
Goodbye to longtime Center for the Humanities administrator Christine Loken-Kim!
We said goodbye last week to our much-beloved center administrator Christine Loken-Kim. Loken-Kim is retiring after being with the center for nine years, during which she ensured that BUCH ran smoothly and with the utmost efficiency and integrity. She was sent off in true Center for the Humanities fashion with a small party so […]