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Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Middle East and North Africa Studies at Ohio University, was featured in a recent analysis of the accuracy of comments made by Vice President Mike Pence. On Feb. 14, 2019, the Vice President stated: For nearly 200 years, stretching back to […]

Seven Fall 2019 courses fulfill requirements for the Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate. The following list includes course name, time, instructor, and prerequisites. The certificate is offered by the History Department at Ohio University in conjunction with a number of courses from other departments. Students and advisers interested in learning […]

The Community News Blog quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “The Truth About Melania and Ivanka Trump’s Unusual Relationship.” Talking about the almost unprecedented influence that two adult women have on this president (FDR’s relationships with his wife and mother come […]

WOUB Spectrum interviewed Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Rural Women Have Started and Led Monumental Women’s Movements.” Until about 1920, rural women in the United States outnumbered urban women and they were the genesis of many historic women’s movement initiatives. […]

The Associated Press quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “First lady: Growing ease in official role, but not politics.” Recent first ladies have all taken prominent roles in re-election campaigns. Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush all […]

Boecking, Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, presented “No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945.” With degrees from the Universities of Cambridge (Ph.D., 2008) and Oxford (B.A., 2003), Boecking also holds a certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for […]

The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 14th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 22-23. The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress historical work of graduate students in a variety of discipline from multiple […]