On Saturday, Sept 19, the Neponset River Lab joined the Neponset River Watershed Association’s annual autumn cleanup of the Neponset River Greenway. They hauled out many bags of trash, and nobody came...
PhD candidate Avi Goldstein took a break from his usual work on Roman Britain to deliver an extremely well-received talk last week at a conference on New England Environmental History held at the Mass...
This is our first post in our renewal of our “Historians in the Trenches” series, where we feature members of our awesome department doing historical stuff! Our faculty and grad students kick things o...
We are proud to announce that Dr. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia has received distinguished fellowships from both the American Council of Learned Societies and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. At the latter, s...
Congratulations to Josh Truelove on a successful dissertation defense! Josh was advised by Martin Summers with Michael Glass and Matt Sienkiewicz serving on the committee. The dissertation is titled ...
Congratulations to Robin Radner! Robin recently defended her dissertation titled “Local Theocracies: Joint Public-Religious Schools and the Rise of Disestablishment in Nineteenth-Century America.” R...
Congratulations to Laura Clerx who successfully defended her dissertation titled “Nature’s Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850.” Laura was advised by Conevery Bolton Valenciu...
Congratulations to Jacob Saliba! Jacob successfully defended his dissertation titled “Cosmopolitan Catholicism: A History of the Interpersonal Turn in France, 1919-1945.” Best wishes to Jacob as he h...
We are thrilled to share that BC History professor Sarah Gwyneth Ross delivered this year’s Henriette Heinz Lecture at the Bibliotheca Hertziana- Max Planck Institute for Art History. Her lecture, tit...
Congratulations to our graduate school graduates! We are so proud of you and know your futures are so bright! 🎉
History had FIVE Scholars of the College this year!
(Not pictured: Margaux Yannacci and her advisor Sylvia Sellers-Garcia)
And Steven Schadt, advisee of Prof. Mike Glass, won the McCarthy Prize!!! 🏆
Yesterday we celebrated the senior history majors! Awards were given and honors theses/Scholar of the College projects were recognized! We are so proud of you all and know you will do great things 🎉
Last week, 36 students were inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society. Congratulations to all the new members! 🎉
Congratulations to this year’s Sophomore Scholars from the History Department, who attended last night’s banquet along with Professor Eddie Bonilla: Liam Kieran, Lucy DeMeo, Zuyi Yang, Sarahi Zuniga, ...
History doctoral student Andrew Juchno was recently featured in an article on BC News for the new book that he co-edited, Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana: Scientific Letters to the Royal Society, wh...