Post Tagged with: "History Alumni"

The BBC Newshour interviewed Ohio University alum Dr. Adam Cathcart about North Korea this week. Cathcart is a Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Leeds. He earned a music degree at Ohio University, followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from the College of Arts & […]

Athens Messenger reporter Susan Tebben interviewed Dr. Kim Little, Associate Director of Ohio University’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She is a Tennessee native who came to Athens County in 1997. She is proud to say, “I Am Athens County.” What brought you to the area? I came to […]

As her first book—Battle Cry: The Demon Slayer Knight—goes to print, Ohio University alum Marjorie McKee shares her personal story of struggle to get where she wanted to go in life. By Marjorie McKee* Ohio University alum In 1986, I dropped out of high school in the 11th grade. I […]

The Zanesville Times Recorder reports that Ohio University alum Robert W. Sidwell “will discuss the Cheat Mountain Campaign of September 1861 in western Virginia, the first offensive movement of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee,” at the Sept. 22 meeting of the Zanesville Civil War Roundtable. Sidwell is a native of […]

Jackson Lavelle ’14, who was named the Top Graduating History Major and received an Eckes Prize in History, started graduate school at the Georgetown University Law Center. He earned a B.A. and double majored in History and Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. In […]

Four Ohio University recent graduates—three of them from the College of Arts & Sciences—have been named 2014 Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellows. The Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with backgrounds in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—into teaching in high-need Ohio secondary schools. […]

Today’s Pulse features an interview with Ohio University alum Tracey Parks ’91, who majored in History Pre-Law in the College of Arts & Sciences. Parks is a seventh-grade world studies teacher at Hopewell Junior School in Lakota (OH) Local School District. Parks is in her 21st year in education, and […]