faculty news
The History Department congratulates Prof. David Quigley as he was recently named dean of the University's College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences after serving as interim dean for a year.
Prof. James O'Toole offered his insight to the Boston Globe regarding the past, present and future of the sacrament of confession.
On June 11th, Prof. Kevin Kenny published an op-ed article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. His forthcoming book entitled Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment will be published in mid-July.
The department is pleased to welcome Prof. Owen Stanwood to the department.
Prof. Jim Cronin has taken over as the Chair of the History Department.
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Nedostup who was recently promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
The New Republic has published an article regarding Prof. Stephen Schloesser's exhibition on Georges Rouault. Please click here to view the article. Additionally, Prof. Schloesser received the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Apple Valley Foundation.
The History Department is pleased to welcome Associate Professor Martin Summers to Boston College.
Prof. David Quigley has been named the Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Prof. Stephen Schloesser curated the exhibition Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958 at BC's McMullen Museum in the fall of 2008.
Prof. Kevin Kenny is the recipient of the 2008 Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Faculty Teaching Award for significant contribution to the teaching of students pursuing doctorates.
Prof. Seth Jacobs was included in an article in the Washington Post on September 24th entitled "Breathing Life Into the Lecture Hall." Click here to view the article.
Congratulations to Prof. David Quigley, who received a Distinguished Teaching Award in May 2007. Please click here to view the article in the Chronicle.
Congratulations to Prof. James O'Toole, who was named the first Charles I. Clough Chair in History.
Prof. Franziska Seraphim received a 2007 Teaching With New Media Award. Please click here to view more information.
Prof. Peter Weiler won the 2007 graduate teaching award from the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools and from BC's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Prof. Rebecca Nedostup announces the launch of The China Gateway, a resource site for students of Chinese history.
Graduate Student News
Dr. Ed Rugemer, a graduate of the department's PhD program, won the Francis S. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association for the best book published in 2007 or 2008.
Congratulations to PhD graduate Bethany Tanis, who received the Donald and Helene White Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled "The 'Great Church Crisis,' Public Life, and National Identity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain."
The department is pleased to announce that PhD alumnus Edward Rugemer has been awarded the 2009 Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians for his book The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War.
PhD candidate Hidetaka Hirota recently received the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the John Higham Travel Grant from the Organization of American Historians and Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Congratulations to Hidetaka Hirota, a current PhD history candidate, who received the 2008 Littleton-Griswold Grant from the American Historical Association for work in legal history.
Ely Janis, a former PhD history candidate, has just published an article in the Journal of American Ethnic History in Winter 2008. The article is titled "Petticoat Revolutionaries: Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Irish Ladies' Land League in the United States." Please click here to read his article.
Austin Mason, a current PhD history candidate, won the 2007 Bethel Prize from the Charles Homer Haskins Society for the paper "Buried Buckets: Ritual Behavior Before England's Conversion."
Congratulations to Dr. Edward Rugemer, former PhD candidate and post-doctoral fellow in the History Department, who accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History & African American Studies at Yale University.
Dr. Mark Doyle, a graduate of the History Ph.D. program, has been awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Doyle will continue to focus on the topic of his dissertation, "Fighting Like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics and the Origins of Violence in Belfast, 1850-1870." To read more about this fellowship program, please click here.
Dr. Libby MacDonald Bischof, an alum of the History Graduate Program and a former post-doctoral fellow in the History Department, was named a Research Fellow at the Georgia O'Keefe Center for American Modernism in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Bischof will be working on a project entitled "Mentoring a Movement: F. Holland Day, Alfred Stieglitz and the Development of American Art Photography." To learn more about the Georgia O'Keefe Center, please follow this link.
Dr. Niamh Lynch, an alum of the Graduate Program, was recently named Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College. If you would like to read more about Dr. Lynch's appointment, please follow this link.
Third-year Ph.D. student, Aniruddha Bose, was awarded a History Compass Graduate Essay Prize. This prize was for Aniruddha's article entitled "Science and Technology in India: The Digression of Asia and Europe." If you would like to read the full article, please click here.
To read more about Aniruddha's work, please follow this link.
An outstanding graduate of our PhD program, Andrew Finstuen, is serving as a Lilly Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Valparaiso University during 2006-07.
Jeffrey Malanson, a fourth-year Ph.D. student, published an article in Diplomatic History in November of 2006. The article is entitled "The Congressional Debate over U.S. Participation in the Congress of Panama, 1825-1826: Washington's Farewell Address, Monroe's Doctrine, and the Fundamental Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy."
Irina Mukhina, a recent graduate of the History Ph.D. program, received the 2006 Donald and Helene White Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled "Reshaping Lives, Reconstructing Identities: Ethnic Germans of the Soviet Union, 1941-1956."
Jill Bender, a History Ph.D. student, has been appointed a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. This program recognizes the very best graduate students for their achievements in analyzing social problems and for their promise of becoming tomorrow's social scientists.
Congratulations to History Ph.D. student Sarah Nytroe, who has received a research travel grant from the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame.