Faculty in the News

Motherboard writer Joel Warner turned to Dr. Thomas Vander Ven, Professor of Sociology, for a first-person story about “the mass-market version of an underground stoner game” in Colorado. Warner explored the game of Zonk, and its potential impact on the cannabis market in Colorado, asking Vander Ven about his research […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, was recently quoted in an Al-Ahram Weekly article on the murder of Jordanian writer and activist Nahed Hattar. Hattar was facing criminal charges for “insulting religion” and “sowing sectarian strife” in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan after sharing a cartoon that depicted an […]

Dr. Kevin Mattson authored “The Intellectual as President” in the Sept. 25 Obama Issue of Chronicle of Higher Education. Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. I belong to a small group. Overeducated and often underemployed, we read small magazines and argue politics, and we […]

Dr. Nicholas Kiersey, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University’s Chillicothe Campus, was quoted in a Big News Network story on the lasting effect of Occupy Wall Street. For a time, Occupy Wall Street was everywhere, with its grass-roots encampments – first in New York City, then globally – […]

The Hill quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, in a story on “Clinton calls sexism on GOP.” Hillary Clinton is playing the sexist card against Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The Democratic nominee, along with top surrogates and allies, has seized on Trump’s recent comment that Clinton […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Is Miss America still relevant? Definitely, say the contestants.” “Miss America is just not the national event that it once was . . . and it seems that every year there […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, authored a Forbes column on “A Tale Of Two Universities.” The University of Chicago is a great university, while something called the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (a group of […]