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Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History, was recently named an Untenured Fellow in the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities. Sarr will begin his three-year term as a Ping Fellow in Fall 2014, in recognition of his teaching excellence and his commitment to humanities education […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, and her colleague Emma Hart of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have won an International Research Network Grant from the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The grant will be used in support of the “Global City: Past and Present” […]

The Department of History welcomes three new faculty members to the Athens campus in Fall 2014. Assistant Professor Ziad Abu-Rish will be teaching courses in Middle Eastern history. Assistant Professor Alec Holcombe will be teaching courses in Southeast Asian history. Visiting Assistant Professor Nicholas Osborne will be teaching courses in […]

Four Ohio University recent graduates—three of them from the College of Arts & Sciences—have been named 2014 Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellows. The Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with backgrounds in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—into teaching in high-need Ohio secondary schools. […]

By Aaron Brown and Mirco Reimer reprinted from American Diplomacy (Aaron Brown is a History Ph.D. candidate at Ohio University.) More than 20 years after leaving office, George Herbert Walker Bush finally seems to step out of Ronald Reagan’s shadow. While Bush the Elder never was a president who could […]

From Perspectives When history enthusiast Seth Givens was an Ohio University undergraduate student, he discovered a unique collection of materials that features raw, unpolished military and civilian personal accounts of World War II. Only about 10 percent had ever been published. The Ohio University Libraries’ Cornelius Ryan Collection includes about […]

Ohio University faculty presented at the Policy History Conference June 4-5 in Columbus, OH. Dr. Paul Milazzo, Associate Professor of History, presented “Internationalism in One Lesson: Henry Hazlitt and the Problem with Bretton Woods, 1944-1945.” Milazzo also chaired the session on Transportation and Communication Policy. Dr. Kathleen S. Sullivan, Associate […]