PhD Candidate Jeanna Kinnebrew Wins BU Women’s Guild Award
BU History PhD candidate Jeanna Kinnebrew is a 2020 recipient of the Boston University Women’s Guild Awards. Jeanna Kinnebrew (GRS) is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department, studying the intersection of public health, gender, and philanthropy. Her dissertation, “Inventing Sexual Health in the Puritan City, 1929-1980,” explores how Boston-area organizations shaped national sexual health […]
A Statement to the Boston University History Department Community
Dear friends, Please see the message, below, from Professors James McCann and Nina Silber. Like so, so many of you, the Boston University History Department adds its voice to those opposing the widespread racial injustice and violence that has recently drawn the nation’s attention. As historians, we are also deeply, and sadly, aware of a […]
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi to Join BU Department of History
The Boston University History Department extends a warm welcome to Professor Ibram Kendi, an acclaimed and prize-winning scholar of US history and the history of racism and anti-racism, who will be joining our department this summer, following the university’s standard professorial appointment process. Dr. Kendi will not only bring his scholarly and teaching strengths to […]
Prof. Robichaud Discusses New Book with NPR and CAS Communications
Professor Andrew Robichaud’s new book Animal City: The Domestication of America was released in December 2019. Recently, Professor Robichaud gave a couple of interviews in which he discussed the book and his research with CAS Communications and “Living on Earth,” a syndicated radio show that airs on NPR.
A Tribute to the History Department Class of 2020
Though we were unable to hold our annual convocation ceremony for our graduating seniors, the History Department wanted to virtually commemorate the all the hard work of the Class of 2020. Department staff asked History faculty members and graduating students to share their thoughts in a tribute to the graduates. We’re so proud of you! […]
Prof. Silber’s New Book Receives Honorable Mention from NEASA
Professor Nina Silber is the recipient of the Honorable Mention for the 2020 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association for her book This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America. In their announcement of the award, the NEASA wrote, Nina Silber’s first book, The Romance of Reunion, […]
Prof. Klepper and History PhD Seth Blumenthal Give Advice to the Class of 2020
Every year around Commencement weekend, BU Today releases its annual video incorporating advice and congratulations from BU faculty and staff to the graduating class. In this year’s video for the Class of 2020, Deanna Klepper, Associate Professor of History and Religion, and Seth Blumenthal, a BU History PhD and Senior Lecturer in the CAS Writing Program, recorded […]
PhD Candidate Tom Sojka Wins Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
Tom Sojka, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, is a recipient of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ 2019-2020 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award. In the department’s nomination of Sojka for the award, they wrote: Several faculty have nominated Tom Sojka very highly for this award. He is a creative and conscientious teacher, but in […]
Prof. Austin Receives HistoryMakers Digital Archives Award
As announced in Black Enterprise, Professor Paula Austin is a recipient of an Academic Research Award in HistoryMakers’ 2020 Digital Archives Awards. Of her project “A History of Black (un)Rest,” Professor Austin writes, This second book project aims to examine practices of “self-care” in Black (and people of color) activist and organizing communities from early […]
Prof. Siegel Wins Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching
Professor Benjamin Siegel is the 2020 recipient of the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. In the April 29th faculty meeting over Zoom, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Joe Bizup announced the faculty teaching awards, saying of Professor Siegel: Specializing in the modern history and politics of South Asia, Ben joined […]