Post Tagged with: "Contemporary History Institute alumni"

Ohio University alumnus Aaron Brown authored an article on “Afghanistan’s Lesson: Plan for What Happens After Russia Leaves Ukraine” on March 20 on the History News Network. “As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, foreign policy experts in the US and Europe are preparing for the real possibility of a […]

From Ohio University News A new book by Ohio University alumnus Steven Wills, Ph.D., Strategy Shelved: The Collapse of Cold War Naval Strategic Planning (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2021), examines the development of U.S. naval strategy during the Cold War and the immediate post-Cold War period. In a Q&A below, […]

From Ohio University News Ohio University alumnus Robert Venosa, Ph.D., recently authored two articles exploring the emergence of liberal internationalist ideas as a method for governing international relations in the 1930s and 1950s. Venosa, who earned a Ph.D. in History and a Contemporary History Certificate in 2020 from the College of […]

Derek Catsam went to South Africa to study history and fell in love with rugby. Now his latest book on the cataclysm of sports and politics in 1981 shines a light on the intersection of sports and political activism today. Catsam is the Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities […]

Spring 2020 Dear Alumni and Friends, The past 12 months have posed great challenges for us. Our seminars, lunchtime conversations, and talks as well as the Elizabeth Evans Baker Lecture moved online, and our students have been industrious and found ways to pursue their research in digital and published source […]

Ohio University alumnus Mike Rattanasengchanh, who earned a Ph.D. in History and a Contemporary History Certificate in May 2019, accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in closures across the nation. Despite the unprecedented […]

  Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the world’s leading forums for the discussion of international relations, announced Ohio University alumnus Dr. Sebastián Hurtado-Torres’s The Gathering Storm: Eduardo Frei’s Revolution in Liberty and Chile’s Cold War as one of its Best Books of 2020. […]