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Twelve students studied in Rome over spring break with one of the History Department‘s most unique courses—HIST 4536 Eternal Rome: Power and Piety. The short-term study trip to Italy during spring break is next offered in Spring 2018. This annual offering allows students to earn upper-level History credit. Such coursework can […]

The History Department awarded Grace Konyar the 2017 Eckes Prize in History. The prize is an annual cash prize of $5,000 awarded to the graduating senior History major with the highest overall GPA. Connect with her on LinkedIn. Emeritus Professor Al Eckes established the prize to recognize superior academic achievement among history majors. Konyar graduated […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper titled “Wild Toxicity, Cultivated Safety: Aflatoxin and Kōji Classification” as part of a Princeton University invitation-only workshop in March. Organized under the rubric of “Risk on the Table: Food, Health, and Environmental Exposures,” the workshop examined the confluence of hazards and concerns that characterize […]

The History Department is pleased to announce the 2016-17 winners of the department’s scholarship, research grant, and essay competitions. While many of these awards are designated for History majors, several of them are available to all OHIO undergraduate students. The department offers an array of annual scholarships and grants that range […]

Robert Venosa, a Ph.D. student in the History Department, presented a paper at the Britain and the World Conference on April 6-8, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Venosa’s paper is titled “The Meaning of Manchuria: The Chatham House Assessment of Collective Security in the Wake of the Manchurian Crisis.” He argues that, despite a […]

Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II. The book offers an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Zakić argues that the Banat […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, contributed the entry on “Hakkō” (Fermentation) to the recently published Kagakushi jiten (Encyclopedia of the History of Chemistry), edited by Kagakushi gakkai (Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry). The encyclopedia, published in April 2017, will be the major Japanese-language reference work on the history of chemistry. Lee’s research focuses on […]