Aaron Hiltner Wins Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award
Aaron Hiltner graduated summa cum laude and with honors in history from the Minnesota liberal arts college Gustavus Adolphus, where he also twice won the DeNault Award for best undergraduate history paper. He joined the Boston University history department as a Ph.D. student in modern American history in fall 2010. Aaron has served as a grader for several classes and earned high praise from students as a teaching fellow for HI300 American Popular Culture. During the next academic year, he will become the assistant editor for Modern Intellectual History, complete his qualifying exams, and begin work on a dissertation that uncovers the history of Saigon during the Vietnam War from French, American, and Vietnamese points of view.