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Lancaster Named to 3-Year Post at American Academy in Rome

Dr. Lynne Lancaster

Archaeologist, architectural historian, and educator Dr. Lynne C. Lancaster (2002 Fellow) has been selected as the next Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Lancaster is currently Professor and Chair of the Classics & World Religions Department at Ohio University. “Congratulations to Dr. Lancaster […]

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January 24, 2018 at 4:04 pmNews

Rosen Puts ‘Accidental Communities,’ Element of Chance at Center of Analysis

Dr. Matthew Rosen

Dr. Matthew Rosen authored an article on “Accidental communities: Chance operations in urban life and field research” in the journal Ethnography. Rosen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio University. “This article concerns chance encounters and other contingencies as these relate to fieldwork practices and processes of community formation. My […]

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January 23, 2018 at 1:25 pmResearch

Bernstein to Give Lecture in England on Autonomy and Obligation in Moral Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Dr. Alyssa R. Bernstein, Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University, will travel to England in March to give an invited lecture on autonomy and obligation in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as part of the 2018 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of Keele […]

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January 22, 2018 at 3:46 pmResearch

Li Gives Keynote in China on Third Sector and Role of Public Service

Dr. Jieli Li gives keynote at Zhejiang University.

Dr. Jieli Li, Professor of Sociology, delivered a research talk titled “An Uncharted Social Space of the Third Sector and the Role of Public Service” at a keynote panel of the Second International Symposium on Public Service: Modernization of Public Service and Governance held at the School of Public Affairs […]

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January 22, 2018 at 10:12 amResearch

Baral and Miandashti Introduce New Optical Temperature and Thermal Imaging Technique

Baral and Miandashti Introduce New Optical Temperature and Thermal Imaging Technique

Chemistry graduate students Susil Baral and Ali Rafiei Miandashti co-authored an article in the journal Nanoscale with their adviser, Dr. Hugh Richardson, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University. The article, “Near-field thermal imaging of optically excited gold nanostructures: scaling principles for collective heating with heat dissipation into the […]

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January 22, 2018 at 9:08 amResearch

Vander Ven Presents on Reducing Sexual Victimization Risk on Campus

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven

Dr. Thomas Vander Ven presented a paper on “Making a Scene: Sociological Observations on the use of Dramaturgical Strategies to Reduce Sexual Victimization Risk on Campus” at the Southern Criminal Justice Association conference in New Orleans this fall. Vander Ven is Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. The Southern Criminal […]

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January 17, 2018 at 9:59 amResearch

Distel Publishes Chapter in New Toni Morrison Volume

Kristin Distel

Kristin Distel, doctoral candidate of English literature, published a chapter in a new volume on Toni Morrison. Her chapter, titled “‘Are you sure she was your sister?’: Sororal Love and Maternal Failure in Toni Morrison’s Paradise,” considers the ways in which sisters serve as mother figures in Morrison’s 1997 novel. […]

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January 16, 2018 at 8:15 amResearch