Research

Dr. Paul Patton and Dr. Sabrina Curran co-authored an article on “Archaic Period Domesticated Plants in the Mid-Ohio Valley: Archaeobotanical Remains from the County Home Site (33at40), Southeastern Ohio” in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 41 (2): 127-158. Patton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Food Studies and Director of […]

Dr. Robert Ingram, Associate Professor in the History Department, co-edited a volume titled God in the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press). The volume brings together recent scholarship from distinguished experts in history, theology, and literature to argue that religion thrived within the Enlightenment. For Ingram and co-editor William J. Bulman, the […]

Dr. Brandon Kendhammer authored a new book on Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria (University of Chicago Press 2016). Kendhammer is Associate Professor of Political Sciences and Director of International Development Studies Program at Ohio University. For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have […]

Dr. John Brobst, Associate Professor in the History Department, published “‘No Scope for Arms Control’: Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s,” in Strategy and the Sea: Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell, and […]

Dr. Brian Schoen‘s “Southern Wealth and Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” will appear in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Jörg Nagler, Don Doyle, and Marcus Graeser (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2017). Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. The chapter examines […]

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History, published “Social Interactions in a Rural Monastery: Scholars, Peasants, and Monks in the Life of Hypatius“ during the 2016 summer. The scholarly work appeared as a chapter in Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown, edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut  Reimitz […]

by Kristin M. Distel “Divide a meter one billion times, and that’s one nanometer. Our nanocar is four nanometers in length,” explained doctoral students Mersad Raeisi and Kondalarao Kotturi. They are part of an Ohio University team that is working on a “nanocar” that will represent Ohio University at the […]