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Ohio University’s Arts & Sciences Awards Committee selected Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History, as the humanities recipient of the Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award for 2016-17. The decision was made last spring and announced this fall. The award recognizes “superior classroom performance, involvement with students beyond the […]

Sana Saidykhan, an M.A. student in the History Department, was named a 2017 recipient of the Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award. The award includes airline tickets between the United States and any Royal Air Maroc (RAM) destination in Africa, and recognizes “outstanding scholarship by future African studies scholars.” Saidykhan is utilizing the […]

The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 12th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 17-18. The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress work of graduate students in the discipline of history from a variety of […]

WXXI News interviewed Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, for a Jan. 25 Connections segment on “Understanding the crisis in The Gambia.” WXXI is a National Public Radio (NPR) member station in Rochester, NY. “After weeks of crisis in The Gambia, is the small African nation […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia Rivier Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940. The book comes in the wake of several journal articles Sarr has published over the past several years, and makes a significant contribution to the literatures […]

Dr. Assan Sarr will begin the Contemporary History Institute spring semester lecture series on Thursday, Jan. 26, with a talk entitled “Gambia’s ‘Unprecedented’ 2016 Election: Accounting for the Recent Crisis in the Small West African Nation.”  The talk is in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. Sarr has just returned from a […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture announces an informal open house for all members of the Ohio University campus community from 1 – 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14, to discuss the legal and political implications of the 2016 election and its results. The Open House will take place in […]