Faculty in the News

Proxies, puppets, pawns. From the “Great Game” of British imperialism in the 19th century through the Cold War in the 20th century—conflict in Central Asia could still be looked at today as a continuation of hundreds of years of “proxy warfare” between the world’s great powers. Dr. John Brobst, Associate […]

A May 28 post on the American Association of University Women (AAUW) blog captured the energy of Tech Savvy, a new program for middle school girls and their parents. Ohio University was one of the pilot programs this spring, and Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, gave 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 […]

To consider the long and contentious connections of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia and the dangers for them and the wider world going forward, For Your Ears Only was joined by Dr. Steven Miner, Director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and an expert on Russian Soviet and Eastern European history. […]

CBC News interviewed Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, for a May 4 report on “Why over 250 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing.” It’s been nearly three weeks since men dressed as soldiers kidnapped more than 300 girls from a Nigerian boarding school, an attack […]

Dr. Steve Miner, Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, was interviewed by Canada’s CTV News Today on April 21 as Vice President Joe Biden was in Kiev for the highest-level visit yet from a U.S. official since the start of the crisis in […]