Archive for August, 2018

Luke Griffith, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, will serve as an adjunct professor at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College during the 2018-19 academic year. At the McArthur Center, Griffith will teach American History II, a course that traces the development of the United States […]

Dr. Mara Holt, Associate Professor of English & Director of Composition, authored a book titled Collaborative Learning as Democratic Practice: A History (Urbana, IL: CCCC/NCTE 2018). Collaborative learning is not only a standard part of writing pedagogy, but it is also a part of contemporary culture. Collaborative Learning as Democratic […]

The Contemporary History Institute congratulates its 2017-18 graduates who earned the graduate Contemporary History Certificate. Ph.D. Graduates Four students earned their doctorates in history and journalism and mass communication. Brad Eidahl, Ph.D. in History (December 2017). Eidahl wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, Professor of History, […]

Dr. Ryan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of  Global Work-Family Interface, addressing how people manage work and family around the world. His co-editors on the book are Kristen M. Shockley, University of Georgia, and Winny Shen, University of Waterloo, Ontario. Book Description: The Cambridge Handbook of […]

Three History Department faculty members were promoted in rank in June. Dr. Robert Ingram was promoted to the rank of professor. His latest book publication, Reformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018), offers a radical reinterpretation of the English Reformation. “No one in 18th-century […]

A faculty learning community on “Teaching Book & Print History Across the Disciplines” will bring together faculty and administrators to establish an interdisciplinary community to discuss book and print history. Participants will read key texts in the field and share strategies for incorporating rare books, archival, and special collections materials […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern A team of Ohio University researchers and their collaborators used a theoretical model to characterize the physical properties of certain samples of amorphous carbon and showed that these materials are, in fact, connected and distorted fragments of amorphous graphene in an article published in […]