faculty news
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 recently 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 recently won graduate teaching awards 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
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 current 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, a current post-doctoral fellow in the History Department, who recently accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History & African American Studies at Yale University.
Dr. Mark Doyle, a recent 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 current post-doctoral fellow in the History Department, was recently 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.