Research

Ohio University has awarded Mitchell Smith, Ph.D. student in the History Department, two prestigious grants: the Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship and a Student Enhancement Award. Both grants were based on Smith’s dissertation project, titled “The Politics of Assent: Popular Support for America’s Vietnam War, 1965-1973.” Smith received $6,000 from the Student Enhancement Awards Program. He […]

The Society for Military History and the First Division Museum at Cantigny has awarded Seth Givens, Ph.D. student in the History Department, the Kevin J. Carroll Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in Military History. Givens received the award for “‘The Defense of Berlin Starts at the Mekong’: Lyndon Johnson and […]

Eryn Kane, Ph.D. student in the History Department, was recently invited to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, where she participated in a roundtable and helped advise on updating the site, including giving more attention to Rosalynn Carter. The visit was sponsored by the U.S. National Parks Service and the Jimmy […]

The History Department at Ohio University prides itself on the scholarly productivity of its faculty. Only three months into 2016, a number of its historians have received significant recognition for for their scholarship, both past and future: Dr. Miriam Shadis won both an Institute for International Education Fulbright Fellowship and an Ohio […]

Dr. Sarah Kinkel, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper on “Bulwark of Liberty or ‘Locusts of America’: The Royal Navy in Imperial Constitutional Debates, 1763-76” at the 2015 Britain and the World Conference, organized by the University of Texas, Austin. She also served as the discussant on a panel […]

College of Arts & Sciences graduate and undergraduate students received half of the spring 2016 Ohio University Student Enhancement Awards announced this week. The Student Enhancement Award program provided 23 students with a total of $127,833 in funding for their original research, scholarship and creative work. The awards are funded by […]

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies faculty from across the state will gather for the Ohio Symposium on Middle East Studies on April 9, with Ohio University faculty well-represented. The symposium is co-convened by Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, and Dr. Ellen Fleischmann of the University of […]