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Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, published an article on “The Price of Belonging to the Volk: Volksdeutsche, Land Redistribution and Aryanization in the Serbian Banat, 1941–4” on April 2014 in the Journal of Contemporary History. Abstract: Between 1941 and 1944, the Serbian Banat was occupied by Reich German […]

Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation during 2013-14 in residence at Germany’s Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her current research focuses on ethnic German communities in Southeast Europe, the transnational spread of National Socialist ideology, and the interplay of ideology and […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies, published an article on “Succession of Property, Sales of Meação, and the Economic Empowerment of Widows of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil” in the May 2014 Journal of Family History. Abstract: Although Portuguese laws protected […]

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. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History with a joint appointment in Classics & World Religions, will provide historical commentary as a study leader for a Smithsonian Journey cruise to the ancient windswept islands of Greece and the fabled coast of Turkey in September. Participants will visit “some of the […]

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 […]