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Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs
Boston University
Program in American Civilizations
Degrees Awarded: BA, PhD, MA in Preservation Studies
Academic System: Semester
Tuition: Undergraduate and graduate $31,530 per year
Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 1/15
Financial Aid: For entering students, financial aid comes in several forms. The most generous award is the Presidential University Graduate Fellowship (PUGF), which provides tuition and a stipend for the first year followed by a teaching fellowship for the second, third, and fourth years. We also offer one-year research fellowships with area museums and graduate assistantships. These packages also cover full-time tuition and pay a stipend.
Affiliations and Internships: Available based on external grants
Program Specializations: art history/material culture, literature, history, and other areas as approved by faculty
MA Requirements: The MA in Preservation Studies consists of 12 graduate courses and a three-month internship. Students take a core of preservation courses beyond which they choose a concentration in architectural history, private development, public management, or building conservation. A double-course Preservation Planning Colloquium or a master’s thesis/project is required of all students in the final semester of the program. This is a terminal degree and does not lead into the doctoral program.
PhD Requirements: Students entering the PhD program with a BA degree take 16 graduate-level courses before proceeding to their PhD oral examinations; those with an MA take eight courses. Two required courses in Community Studies and The Literature of American Studies provide an introduction to analytic methods and rhetorical problems. Otherwise, students devise their own programs of study. Other requirements include reading competence in a single modern foreign language, a major research paper, a two-hour oral qualifying examination, and the dissertation.
American Studies Faculty
The American and New England Studies Program draws extensively on the faculty and courses of a variety of departments and programs at the university. Core members of the faculty are listed below.
BLAKELY, Allison (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) Professor of history and African American studies; the Black Diaspora, comparative history
BLASZCZYK, Reggie (PhD, Univ. of Delaware) Assistant Professor of History & American Studies; American material culture, history of business
CANDEE, Richard M. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1976) Professor; American architecture, historic preservation, vernacular architecture
DEMPSEY, Claire (MA, Boston Univ.) Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies; vernacular architecture, historic preservation
FINBURY, Elaine (MA, Boston Univ.) Adjunct Assistant Professor; adaptive use and historic preservation
HALTER, Marilyn (PhD, Boston Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; immigration history, American social and women’s history
HILLS, Patricia (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.) Professor of Art History; American painting, visual culture
KLANCHER, Jon (PhD, UCLA) Associate Professor of English; literary theory
KOROBKIN, Laura (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; 19th Century American literature, especially American fiction, the genre of sentimentality, relations of narrative to law
LEPORE, Jill (PhD, Yale Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; Early American History
MATTHEWS, John T. (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) Professor of English; 19th and 20th century American fiction, Southern literature and culture, modernism, literary theory
MIZRUCHI, Susan (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Associate Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, feminist theory
MORGAN, Keith (PhD, Brown Univ.) Associate Professor of Art History; architectural history, landscape history, preservation studies
PROTHERO, Stephen (PhD, Harvard) Associate Professor of Religion; Eastern religions in America, American Christology
SEWALL, Jessica (PhD, University of Calfornia, Berkeley) Assistant Professor of American Studies and Art History; American material culture, urbanism, architectural history, cultural landscapes, and gender theory.
SCHULMAN, Bruce (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Associate Professor of History; 20th century American history
SICHEL, Kim (PhD, Yale Univ.) Assistant Professor of Art History; history of photography and modern art
SILBER, Nina (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor of History; 19th-century American social and cultural history, women’s history
VANCE, William (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Professor of English; 19th-century American literature and culture, relations between literature and art
ZELIZER, Julian (PhD, Johns Hopkins) Professor of History; taxation, American Political Development, twentieth century US history.
Contact
American and New England Studies Program
226 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617/353-2948
Fax: 617/353-2556
E-mail:
http://www.bu.edu/amnesp/
Chair/Director: Marilyn Halter
Admissions
Marilyn Halter
American and New England Studies Program
226 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617/353-2948
Fax: 617/353-2556
MA, PhD
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