2019/2020 Graduate Dissertation Fellows Announced
Each year, the Boston University Center for the Humanities awards dissertation fellowships to outstanding doctoral candidates in the Humanities nearing the end of their graduate work at BU. Along with our Faculty Fellows, Dissertation Fellows participate in our Fellows Seminars and are eligible to receive office space at the Center’s suite. The Center is pleased […]
Department of Linguistics Announces New Graduate Certificate Programs
The Boston University Department of Linguistics will begin offering two Graduate Certificates in the Fall 2019 semester: the GRS Graduate Certificate in Linguistics and the MET Graduate Certificate in Linguistics. Interested students can find application information and details about the certificates on the Department of Linguistics website.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]