Each year the Boisi Center provides an intellectual home for visiting scholars working on significant projects related to religion and public life. Visiting scholars participate in the intellectual life of the Center, which includes numerous public events, and may have an opportunity to present their own research as well. For more information about the visiting scholars program, or to apply for a position in the 2009-2010 academic year, please see the application information.
VISITING SCHOLARS 2009-2010
John H. Summers
John H. Summers earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester in 2006. He has taught at Harvard University, Columbia University and The Cooper Union. He is the editor of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (Oxford, 2008) and the author of Every Fury on Earth, a collection of his essays on history and politics. During his year at the Boisi Center, Summers will finish writing the manuscript An American Loneliness: C. Wright Mills and his Times. Summers's essays have been published in The New Republic, New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, The Nation, Journal of American History, and many other periodicals. An online archive of his writing can be found at his website: jsummers.net, and he can be contacted at: summersj@bc.edu.
For a list of past visiting scholars, click here.