Field report from Rachael Young and Madison Cortez, two awesome BC PhD students: "Madison and I were both doing research in Dublin and Belfast this summer. We're both working on projects regarding Nor...
Field report from BC history major Kevin Deng: “I've just completed a season at the University of Michigan's field school in the ruins of Gabii, near Rome. The Gabii Project is a large excavation work...
What can you do with a history major? A field report from Max Baker (BC’19): “I am the media monitor and a researcher for Sen. Klobuchar at her campaign headquarters in Minneapolis (using my Lexis Nex...
Field report from Colin Phelan who is in India on an ASG, researching the creation of Jim Corbett National Park during British Colonial rule. More specifically, He is investigating the construction of...
Field report from Prof. Virginia Reinburg: I was in Hamburg (Germany) for a conference on early modern history, and saw many small-scale memorials to Hamburg's Jewish residents on city sidewalks. This...
Field report from Chrissy Habian: I’m in Mount Rainier National Park doing work for my Advanced Study Grant (ASG). Through a study of John Muir's writings and my own attempts at wilderness journalism,...
Hanging out with my man, Jeremy Bentham at the special collections in UCL, a university he helped to start. (Its really him, btw. Had himself embalmed for the purpose. Of course, a wax sculptor had t...
Field report from Doug Girardot:
I’m interning at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where I’m helping to transcribe and make web-searchable John Quincy Adams’s diary. I’m also working on a major W...
Field report from Dr. Jesse Tumblin:
1. A sample of conscription memos I have been reading in the BL (on Rolls Royce stationery)
2. A visit I took to the Chattri, the most important monument to soldie...
Arturo Balaguer, reporting from Madrid, where he’s doing an internship with a startup. In the photos, he is in Toledo, Spain, what was really the core of the Spanish empire for hundreds of years befor...
History major, Czar Sepe, currently in Beirut, Lebanon, doing a six-week language acquisition and cultural immersion program with the Lebanese American University. Part of his program is going on excu...
Professor Fleming is spending a few weeks in territory, contested in the first half-dozen centuries of the Common Era, by Rome and Persia, visiting archaeological sites and museum collections. She’ll ...
Introducing... DR. John Morton, PhD!!!!! Please join us in congratulating him on his excellent defense of an outstanding dissertation!
#historiansinthetrenches and the statehouse! Prof. Valencius (coneveryvalencius) on why Native American school mascots are bad for everyone! Read her commentary here: http://tinyurl.com/y6g7f75y
Any questions? Prof. Arissa Oh archive diving in DC.
#historyisthebestmajor #historiansinthetrenches #bc360 where are you, history majors? Send us your photos!!