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by Kristin M. Distel Dr. Amritjit Singh’s edited volume, Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, June 2016), has begun to receive strong reviews from international news outlets. The book, co-edited by Singh with Professor Nalini Iyer and Dr. Rahul K. Gairola, has also been […]

Public radio show BackStory interviewed Dr. Paul Jones for a Halloween feature on the American horror story, specifically the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Jones is the Samuel and Susan Crowl Professorship in English Literature & Director of Graduate Studies at Ohio University. BackStory with the American History Guys is […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, wrote a column for Forbes on “The Cost Of Ball Throwing Contests.” For some reason, American universities are obsessed with balls–footballs, basketballs, baseballs, volleyballs. Collectively, they literally spend billions of […]

Dr. Nicholas Kiersey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University’s Chillicothe Campus, was quoted in an ABC6 story on “Looking for a haven for moderates? Try Chillicothe.” Most of the local politicians elected in Chillicothe are Democrats, but voters there typically send Republicans to Washington, DC. The Ross County […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story on “In Phoenix, Michelle Obama goes after Trump again — and offers a vision for a Clinton presidency.” The national spotlight does not usually follow first ladies after they leave the White House, […]

Motherboard writer Joel Warner turned to Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, for a first-person story about “the mass-market version of an underground stoner game” in Colorado. Warner explored the game of Zonk, and its potential impact on the cannabis market in Colorado, asking Vander Ven about his research […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, was recently quoted in an Al-Ahram Weekly article on the murder of Jordanian writer and activist Nahed Hattar. Hattar was facing criminal charges for “insulting religion” and “sowing sectarian strife” in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan after sharing a cartoon that depicted an […]