Betty Anderson
Betty Anderson is the author of Nationalist Voices in Jordan: The Street and the State (University of Texas Press, 2005), The American University of Beirut: Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education (University of Texas Press, 2011), and A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels and Rogues (Stanford University Press, Spring 2016), as well as a co-author with Carol Berkin of […]
Paula Austin
Paula C. Austin is a U.S. historian with a focus on African American history, the history of race and racism, visual culture, urban, education, and women’s history, the history of social science, and the history of childhood. She is particularly interested in interiority and broadening the narrow definitions of intellectual history. Her book, Coming of Age […]
Ting Wei Li
Ting Wei Li is the IOC’s Communications Manager and Administrator. In this role, he facilitates the IOC’s branding, messaging, and design strategies, manages events, and supervises student staff. Prior to joining the IOC, Ting is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences magna cum laude, majoring in Political Science and History. Born in […]
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks was a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, where he studied postwar United States political history with Professor Bruce J. Schulman. Born in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, he moved to Boston after completing his M.A. at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Henry’s research is concerned with the remaking of modern American liberalism, focusing […]
Johnathan Williams
Read more about Johnathan’s experience as the 2018 City of Providence Department of Innovation Fellow Johnathan Williams is a Ph.D. candidate in History in the College of Arts and Sciences. He received in BA and MA from the University of Northern Iowa, where he focused on the social and cultural movements of the Reagan era. […]
Diana Wylie
Diana Wylie has published four books on southern and North African history: A Little God, The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom (1990); Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (2001; winner of Herskovits Prize 2002); Art + Revolution, The Life and Death of […]