We are thrilled to announce that Meadow Vrtis (right) was the winner of the McCarthy prize! Her Scholar of the College project is titled “‘She Threw a Crucifix into a Latrine’ and Other Life-Changing ...
Last Monday, the history department celebrated our senior history majors at Connelly House! Awards were given out and honor theses/Scholar of the College projects were celebrated! Congratulations to a...
Max is an engineering student in Professor Grube’s Modern History I Core class. For his semester research project, he used the Hatchery Makerspace at 245 Beacon to construct a model of a ship from the...
Congratulations to our Phi Beta Kappa inductees! Founded in 1776, PBK is America’s most prestigious academic honor society. Please join us in celebrating new and returning PBK members!
Congratulations to the 2025 Sophomore Scholars and Dean’s Scholars in history! Also, during the ceremony, history major Brendan Mahoney was the featured Senior Speaker! Fantastic work!
Congratulations to the 2025 inductees to Phi Alpha Theta, the honors society for history! They were honored last week at the induction ceremony. Great job everyone!
Congratulations to Sam Hurwitz! Sam successfully defended their dissertation “Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies: A Social History of the Gay Men and Transgender Women of Boston, 1940-...
The history department is sponsoring two events this week that are part of the New Borderlands History Workshop. Please join us!
On February 7th at 7, Harvard Book Store will welcome Judith Giesberg—professor of history, Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University, and BC alum—for a discussion of her ne...
Apply now for the Castles in Communities Summer Archeology Field Program! Running from June 23rd to August 2nd 2025, the program involves excavation, geophysics, surveying, and time in the lab.
We would like to recognize Professor Nicole Eaton for her numerous book awards, including the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History from the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Stud...
Graduate student Joshua Rosen is the winner of the blogging contest from the Urban History Association!
His piece, “My Street Looks Different Now: Oral History and the Anti-Redlining Movement,” is des...
BC History Professor Lorelle Semley was recently featured in a BC News article that discussed her role as the Africa and African Diaspora Studies Director and the program’s future. More about Dr. Seml...
On Thursday, November 21st at 5 PM, Father Paul Mariani, SJ, will be holding a lecture on “The Church in China after the Cultural Revolution,” in McGuinn 121. We hope to see you there!
We are pleased to announce the next two talks of the Lecture Series on Gaza. The goal of the series is to bring in academic experts to educate faculty and students on aspects of and related to the ong...