Post Tagged with: "History Alumni"

Dr. James Waite, First Secretary (Political) at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, D.C., returns to Ohio University with the Contemporary History Institute Guest Lecture Series on Friday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 247. His talk is on “New Zealand, the United States, and the Asia Pacific Century: a […]

Ohio University alum Jeremy Deem ’95, who majored in History in the College of Arts & Sciences, received a faculty award at Colorado Mountain College’s Summit County campus, the Summit Daily reported on Feb. 18. Jeremy Deem teaches outdoor education, history and sustainable studies and was given the part-time award. […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes one of its own, alumni Dr. Jeremy Hatfield, who will speak on Thursday, Feb. 27, in Baker 242 at 4:30 p.m. to open the Spring Semester Lecture Series. Dr. Hatfield received his Ph.D. in History from the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences in 2013. He […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Ronald L. Lewis ’66 has written the contemporary history of West Virginia University, where he taught history until his retirement in 2008. His newly released book is Aspiring to Greatness: West Virginia University since World War II. Lewis earned a B.A. in Political Science from the […]

“William Z. Slany, a top State Department historian who helped oversee a study in the 1990s that exposed Nazi looting of Jewish property and that led to $8 billion in belated compensation for Holocaust victims and their families, died May 13 at his home in Reston. He was 84,” reported […]

“On a sunny and memorable day in 1979, I stood in the post office in Manchester Center, Vermont, and unwrapped the package containing the advance copy of my first book, Old Yellowstone Days. As I stood there staring at it in wonder, I realized that with its publication I had […]

Ohio University alum Jeremi Suri ’96M is the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.  He earned an M.A. in History with a thesis on “Cold War Legitimacy in Crisis: An International History of Détente,” […]