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Rachel Mesch<\/a>, Professor of French, reviews<\/a><\/strong> Professor of History Jim Johnson<\/a>‘s new monograph, Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light<\/em><\/a>, which was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Longtime BU faculty collaborators, Roy Grundmann (COM), Peter J. Schwartz (WLL), and Gregory H. Williams Associate (HAA), respond to questions from BUCH staff about their co-edited volume, <\/span>Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki\u2019s Global Video Project<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Film Culture in Transition Series, Amsterdam University Press, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Faculty Book Reviews Rachel Mesch, Professor of French, reviews Professor of History Jim Johnson’s new monograph, Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light, which was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2025. Yair Lior (Religion) on his recent co-edited volume, The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, which was published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"featured_media":0,"parent":20934,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21020"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23748,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21020\/revisions\/23748"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/04\/9781138331679-150x150.jpg\")
Yair Lior<\/strong><\/a> (Religion) on his recent co-edited volume<\/a><\/strong>, The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion<\/em>, which was published with a BUCH subvention. Lior teaches courses ranging from Jewish mysticism, to Chinese religions and philosophy, and Religion & Science.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-3.32.34-PM-150x150.png\")
PhD Candidate Elisheva Ash<\/a><\/strong> (Graduate Program in Religion) reviews Deeana Klepper’s<\/a><\/strong> (Religion and History) recent book<\/strong><\/a>, Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany<\/em>. Professor Klepper worked on this monograph during her time as a BUCH Henderson Senior Research Fellow, and the book was published with a subvention from BUCH.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/9780190062507-150x150.jpg\")
Professor of Religion David Eckel<\/a><\/strong>, a scholar of Buddhism, reviews the recent book<\/a> <\/strong>by his departmental colleague Jonathan Klawans<\/a><\/strong>, Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovations in Ancient Judaism<\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-19-at-12.36.07-PM-150x150.png\")
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In another cross-departmental conversation, James Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, professor of\u00a0 History, reviews the new book\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>by English Department’s Michael Prince<\/a><\/strong>, The Shortest Way with Defoe.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/09\/download-2-150x150.jpg\")
Abigail Gillman, professor of Hebrew, German, and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages & Literatures, reviews the recent study<\/a><\/strong> of Claude Lanzmann’s SHOAH (1985) by Romance Studies assistant professor, Jennifer Cazenave<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"\/humanities\/files\/2020\/05\/Books-for-CC-636x299.png\")
A book review <\/a><\/strong>by James Uden<\/a><\/strong>, professor of Classical Studies, weaves together work by Abigail Gillman (World Languages & Literatures), Jodi Cranston (History of Art & Architecture), and Adela Pineda (Romance Studies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"