Archive for May, 2014

Dr. Robin D. Muhammad, Chair and Associate Professor of African American Studies, published an article on “Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West” in Perspectives journal online. In the article, Muhammad discusses the growth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) or the […]

WOUB’s Ann Jacob interviewed Dr. Steven Miner, Director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and an expert on Russian Soviet and Eastern European history, on May 16. The issues in Ukraine were headline news for weeks as rallies overthrew a government, and even more as Russia began to move into […]

Last week’s mine deaths in Turkey were “no accident,” writes Dr. Nukhet Sandal for the Huffington Post in an article headlined “No Death Is Ordinary: Soma Work Massacre in Turkey.” Sandal, Director of War and Peace Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, is  conducting research this […]

Michael Boldt, MD, second-year OB-GYN resident at the University of Cincinnati, is proud to be a buckeye who didn’t fall far from the tree. An Ohio University alum, Boldt earned a B.S. in the Biological Sciences pre-professional program in 2008 from the College of Arts & Sciences. He attended medical […]

Many states have fallen behind in providing funding, implementing policies, and placing a high priority on improving rural and small-town schools—led by Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Arizona—according to the new biennial Why Rural Matters 2013-14 report from the nonprofit Rural School and Community Trust. “This is a biennial report […]

Dr. Michael B. Gillespie, Assistant Professor in African American Studies, analyzes Spike Lee’s film “Do The Right Thing” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Film, due out in July. Gillespie’s piece on Do The Right Thing is part of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Film, which comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars […]

Dr. Michael B. Gillespie, Assistant Professor in African American Studies, published an essay on “Dirty Pretty Things: The Racial Grotesque and Contemporary Art” in the new book Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, which is due out in July. Post-Soul Satire is edited by Derek Maus and Jim Donahue (University Press of […]