Research

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. 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 […]

Dr. Eric LeMay published a new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Why do we play the lottery when we know we’ll lose? How does what we laugh at tell us who we are? What happens when, through some misstep or mishap, we lose ourselves and become […]

Picture Athens County today. Dense forests and rolling hills. But it hasn’t always looked like this. Climate change and human activity have combined, research suggests, to alter the hills of Southeastern Ohio many times over the past 3,000 years. Prairie grassland? Ragweed gardens? Park-like woods without dense undergrowth? Clear-cut forests? […]

  Patton Bog, as it is known locally, is a small natural wetland in Athens County. Today it is surrounded by dense forest in a relatively unpopulated area, but it hasn’t always been so. It was once home to villages of Native Americans who used its clay to make their […]

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]