Archive for June, 2014

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies, presented “Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” at the American Historical Association 2014 annual meeting in January. Her work also will appear as a chapter in the upcoming book Commodification, Community, and Comparison […]

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History with a joint appointment in Classics & World Religions, will provide historical commentary as a study leader for a Smithsonian Journey cruise to the ancient windswept islands of Greece and the fabled coast of Turkey in September. Participants will visit “some of the […]

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, published an article on “Voter Education: Provincial Autonomy and the Transformation of Chinese Election Law, 1920-1923” in the June 2013 issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. Abstract: Beginning in 1909, mainland Chinese governments routinely held elections, and […]

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, published an article on “Seeking Talent at the Voting Booth: Elections and the Problem of Campaigning in the Late Qing and Early Republic” in the October 2013 issue of the journal Twentieth-Century China. Abstract: Early twentieth-century Chinese governments experimented with […]

By OHIO Center for Law, Justice & Culture in Cambodia Last week we had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the Angkor Archaeological Park, comprised of the more than 40 temples and ruins that once made up the capital cities of the Khmer Empire. From the 9th to 15th centuries, this empire […]

By Katie Conlon ’16 History HTC and Law, Justice &  Culture Research Externship in Cambodia Up until this point, we’ve been writing these posts collectively. That’s mostly because we’re all sharing the responsibility of updating you on our travels. But after spending a week in Siem Reap, staying on my own […]

“Some people describe a lonesome highway or the middle of a desert town—even a state like Ohio—as ‘the middle of nowhere.’ But for others, like Eric LeMay, no such place exists,” writes Jill Talbot in a discussion for New Books in Literature with the writer about his new book. There […]