Faculty in the News

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column at Forbes headlined “Why Are There So Many Marginally Employed Ph.D.s In English?” The Chronicle of Higher Education ran two articles recently on growing unhappiness about a problem Ph.D. students in English at Columbia University face: most of […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column at Forbes headlined “The New Campus Housing Bubble.” My good friend, banker-scholar Alex Pollack of the R Street Institute, has shared with me some startling new data. High priced, comparatively luxury college student housing has been […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in an article originally appearing in the New York Times headlined “‘Catastrophic,’ ‘Cataclysmic’: Trump’s Tariff Threat Has Retailers Sounding Alarm.” As China grew into its position as the world’s workshop, Walmart prospered with it, said Richard Vedder, […]

Dr. Roy Boyd, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, co-authored a column in The Hill headlined “The US-Mexico border situation is an opportunity, not a ‘crisis.’” Heated references to a “crisis” at the U.S. southern border and calls for massive deportations of undocumented Mexican immigrants aren’t new. Driven by […]

Dr. Brandon Kendhammer was on a panel on “Rethinking Nigeria’s Response to the Boko Haram Crisis” on Sept. 18 at the Washington Humanitarian Forum. Kendhammer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. The forum, hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, focuses “on humanitarian challenges that […]

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven talks about coaching Louisiana State University quarterback Joe Burrow in an ESPN story headlined “The tales of Super Burrow, LSU’s ultra-confident breakout star QB.” Vander Ven is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. Burrow played on a travel AAU basketball team when he was 9. During […]

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History, Dr. Theresa Moran, Director of Food Studies, and Dr. David Bell, Chair of Linguistics presented papers at the Eighth Edition of the Kings and Queens Conference — Resilio ergo Regno: Resilience, Continuity and Recovery at Royal Courts. The conference brings together scholars working […]