Post Tagged with: "Portugal"

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History and a Center for Law, Justice & Culture faculty affiliate at Ohio University, maintains an active research agenda, including international conferences and many publications. Shadis recently published two essays. The first, “Unexceptional women: Auctoritas, Potestas, and Queenship in Early Portugal,” appeared in Medieval Elite […]

The 2017 Lazaroff Lecture features Dr. Marion Kaplan discussing “Portugal, ‘Forced Paradise’: The Daily Lives and Feelings of Jewish Refugees in Occupied Europe” on Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. in Baker Center 240/242. A reception will follow. This event is sponsored by the History Department, which invites students, faculty, and staff […]

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History, is spending the current academic year (2016-17) on an Ohio University Faculty Fellowship Leave. Shadis will be researching and writing her next book project, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Saints: Gender and State Formation in Early Portugal (1100-1250). This is a study of the first […]

Ohio University’s Kelee Riesbeck interviewed Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History, for  an episode of “Conversations from Studio B” titled Iberian Queens Played Integral Part in Formation of Portugal. Kelee Riesbeck talks about Iberian queens, kings and royal daughters with Associate Professor of history Miriam Shadis, whose research project, “Mothers, Daughters, […]

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, recently received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Portugal. The Fulbright Scholars Program is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Shadis plans to make use of the fellowship during her […]

The History Department at Ohio University prides itself on the scholarly productivity of its faculty. Only three months into 2016, a number of its historians have received significant recognition for for their scholarship, both past and future: Dr. Miriam Shadis won both an Institute for International Education Fulbright Fellowship and an Ohio […]