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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, 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. 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 […]

Dr. Eric LeMay published a new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Why do we play the lottery when we know we’ll lose? How does what we laugh at tell us who we are? What happens when, through some misstep or mishap, we lose ourselves and become […]

Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, wrote about research by two Ohio University anthropologists on June 15 in an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch titled “Ancient cultures affected by climate change, too.” Climate change must have presented challenges as well as opportunities for ancient cultures […]

Picture Athens County today. Dense forests and rolling hills. But it hasn’t always looked like this. Climate change and human activity have combined, research suggests, to alter the hills of Southeastern Ohio many times over the past 3,000 years. Prairie grassland? Ragweed gardens? Park-like woods without dense undergrowth? Clear-cut forests? […]