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Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, presented “Deprivation and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Inequality, Underdevelopment, and Global Food Riots, 2007-2014” at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in August in Chicago. “The session that I presented in was sponsored by the ASA section on Peace, War, and Social […]

Dr. Nicole Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, wrote two papers presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in August. For the session on “Religion in the Broader Social World,” Kaufman presented “Faith in Reentry: Approaches to Religion at Non-governmental Organizations Working with Formerly Incarcerated People.” For the “Deviance and […]

Dr. Ursula Castellano, Associate Professor of Sociology, presented “The Cultural Practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Felony Mental Health Courts” at the 34th International Congress of Law and Mental Health in Vienna, Austria, in July. She was invited to speak on the Mental Health Courts panel by well-known sociologist and mental […]

Dr. Elizabeth Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented “Transitioning into the middle class after college: ‘Hidden injuries’ and partial mobility” at the Sociology of Higher Education panel of the American Sociological Association annual meeting in August in Chicago. The ASA panel focused on race, class, and gender in higher education. […]

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, […]

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 Dr. Matthew Layton’s interest in Latin America began on a church mission trip to Minas Gerais, Brazil, during his undergraduate years. Starting a journey that would eventually bring him to Ohio University, he later enrolled in a master’s program to study both the history and the politics of the […]

Lois Vines, Professor of French and Marie-Claire Wrage, Professor Emerita of French in the Department of Modern Languages at Ohio University, translated translated from French It All Began in Nuremberg, Between History and Memory by Rita Thalmann (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015). It All Began in Nuremberg is […]