History Department
boston college
Announcements
Dr. Hidetaka Hirota's manuscript, "The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy" was chosen to receive the Organization of American Historians Louis Pelzer Memorial Award.
As part of the New York Times "Campaign Stops" series, PhD candidate and Clough Center Graduate Fellow Seth Meehan published an essay -- "Catholics and Contraception: Boston, 1965" -- providing historical context to the current birth control debate http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/catholics-and-contraception-boston-1965/ . Meehan discussed his research recently with the National Catholic Reporter http://ncronline.org/news/politics/cardinals-role-end-states-ban-contraception.
PhD candidate Jared Hardesty received the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium's fellowship. It carries a $5,000 prize and enables him to do research at 20 different repositories across New England. http://www.nerfc.org/
Congratulations to Prof. Julian Bourg, Prof. Owen Stanwood, and Prof. Prasannan Parthasarathi, all of whom received promotions in February. Prof. Bourg and Prof. Stanwood were promoted to associate professor with tenure and Prof. Parthasarathi was promoted to full professor.
Prof. Prasannan Parthasarathi published his book Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850 in September 2011 through Cambridge University Press. In this book, Dr. Parthasarathi provides a rereading of rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology, and the state and provides a new answer as to why Europe industrialized and Asia did not. Please click here for more information.
Prof. Owen Stanwood published his first book The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution in August 2011, Mark Peterson of the University of California, Berkeley wrote: "Deeply and broadly researched, The Empire Reformed offers a compelling explanation for the political turbulence in colonial North America in the late seventeenth century, and frames it powerfully in a narrative account that makes sense of events in the region from the Chesapeake northward, between the Great Lakes to the West, and the Atlantic Ocean to the East." Please click here to view more information.