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The inaugural cohort of students in the Law, Justice & Culture Certificate program mingled with local attorneys, judges and faculty at a reception sponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture on Sept. 16. “The reception was a lovely opportunity for students to have informal conversations with center faculty […]

If it had signed the various international human rights treaties put forth since two world wars dominated the 20th century world stage, “the United States would be a more generous nation today.” Yet many of the countries that did sign the treaties haven’t enforced them, continued Bert B. Lockwood, Director […]

Pin-up girls or women embodying FDR’s Four Freedoms worth fighting for—World War II poster girls had little control in propaganda, said Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Interim Chair of History, at a recent conference at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom on “Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second […]

Adam Phillips is the Graduate Student Senator for the College of Arts & Sciences. As the senator to the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), he is committed to representing the graduate students within the college and advocating for their interests. Please feel free to contact Phillips to voice any concerns or […]

Last Monday it appeared the United States was marching toward possible military action against Syria. Fast forward just four days, and top diplomats from the United States and Russia are in Geneva trying to hammer out an agreement about how to secure Syria’s chemical weapons – the success of which […]

By Stephen J. Scanlan, Fulbright  Scholar National University of Ireland Galway Greetings from Galway, Ireland. It has been far too long since I have traveled abroad. I have too often lived vicariously through the stories students and colleagues have shared with me.  I am thus drawn back to the simplicity […]

Matt Jacobs, a Ph.D. student in History at Ohio University who studies 20th century U.S. foreign policy, wrote a commentary for History News Network on the debate over the U.S. role in Syria. His area of study is 20th century foreign relations and his research interest is U.S. Public Diplomacy […]