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The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about “Electricity in Early Independence Lebanon.“ Drawing on his current book project and using source material such as newspaper articles and development reports from the 1940s and ’50s, Abu-Rish draws a picture of political, […]

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, was quoted in a Washington Post story on “Does an unmarried president still need a first lady?” He’s unmarried. An avowed bachelor. If he won the White House, he’d have no spouse at his side…. But why does an unmarried president […]

Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, returns to campus this fall after a one-year research leave as the Mary B. Wall Washington Professor of American History in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin in Ireland. The position is facilitated and supported by the […]

Washington Post writer Krissah Thompson quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, in a story on “What kind of ex-president will Barack Obama be? POTUS plans for the future.” As Laura Bush knows, the modern bully pulpit is ever available for former presidents and their wives, but how […]

Dr. Chester Pach, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, wrote an opinion piece for a New York Times Room for Debate feature in the New York Times about the Vietnam War 40 years after its conclusion. “Forty years ago, after a decade of war with the French, and a […]

Recent developments in the Middle East, including the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. bombing campaigns and ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the situations in Egypt, Yemen, and Libya were all discussed as Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of Middle East History at Ohio University, was […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was interviewed on the emergence of ISIS and regional ramifications in October by Epohi, a weekly newspaper produced in Greece. Abu-Rish is co-editor of Jadaliyya, where he published an English translation of the interview. Epohi primarily focuses on Greek politics […]