David Atkinson will give next seminar series talk
We are pleased to announce the theme of our next lunch talk, to be held on Wednesday, April 18 at 12:20. Professor David Atkinson (Purdue) will present his paper, “Imports, European Empires, and American Political Economy during the First World War.” Atkinson received his Ph.D. in history from Boston University in 2010. His forthcoming book is entitled The […]
Timothy Stewart-Winter (Rutgers) to deliver next lunch talk!
We are excited to host Timothy Stewart-Winter on Wednesday March 21 for our next lunch talk seminar. Professor Stewart Winter will discuss his current book project. The accompanying paper is titled,”The Fall of Walter Jenkins: Sexuality and the Politics of Policing in the 1960s.” Stewart-Winter is an associate professor of U.S. history at Rutgers University. […]
2018 Grad Conference program now available – Open to the public!
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Jayita Sarkar to speak at next lunch talk
We are pleased to announce that Jayita Sarkar (BU) will visit the APHI seminar room next Wednesday, Jan 31 to speak about her paper, “Whack-a-Mole: American Policy to Curb West European Nuclear Exports, 1974-1978.” Please join us for lunch at 12:20! Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s […]
Deadline Extended: 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Deadline Extended: Jan 26 Check out the CFP here: https://www.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conference/
Brooke Blower to speak at APHI Seminar
Join us this Wednesday for Professor Brooke Blower’s presentation, “Hope and Betrayal in the Pacific War: The Making of an American Radio Correspondent in Southeast Asia.” Brooke Blower is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Her first book, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2011) won the Gilbert […]
New talk added, updated flyer!
February 14, John Rodrigue (Stonehill College), “The Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War” APHI 2018
Next week: Heather Ann Thompson at APHI Lunch
The 2017-18 APHI seminar kicks off next Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 12:20PM. University of Michigan Professor Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer prize winning Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, will speak on the subject of her current research, “Surveillance and the State-Building Origins of American Carcerality.” There will be […]
2017-2018 APHI Seminar Series lineup announced!
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Igo to deliver next APHI Lunch Talk on 4/12
Mark April 12 on your calendars for a very special presentation: Sarah Igo (Vanderbilt University), “The Promises and Perils of Transparency”! Igo is an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interests are in modern American cultural and intellectual history, the history of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of […]