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In Fall 2020, Ohio University alumnus Luke Griffith joined the Ronald Reagan Institute in Washington, D.C., as a post-doctoral scholar, part of its inaugural visiting fellows program.  Griffith was previously the 2019-20 Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the RAND Corp. He earned a Ph.D. in History in 2018, along with […]

Drs. Katherine Jellison and Sarah Poggione talk about how women have and continue to change the political landscape in the United States in Ohio University’s Ask the Experts Election 2020 series. Jellison is professor of History, and Poggione is Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and Associate […]

Ohio University graduate student Andrew Howard is learning Urdu from home this semester. While Howard, a History doctoral student, had applied for and was accepted by the U.S. State Department’s highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship program (CLS), the emergence of COVID-19 forced the cancellation of regular programming, which places participants […]

Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History and faculty affiliate at the Center for Law, Justice & Culture, recently authored the chapter “The Life of Penance” published in The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (Oxford University Press, October 2020). Abstract: This chapter explores the relationship between memory, narrative, and penance in […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Melania Trump is having a hard time distancing herself from the president.” “She very well may be responding to criticism of running a lax ship there at the White House based on her […]

Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, was quoted in an international story headlined Melania ‘folded like a deck of cards’ about a new book released this week, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady, written by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Americans “want […]

Editor’s Note: Alexis Karolin is an Honors Tutorial College History Major from Columbus, Ohio, who “learned that even amid a global emergency, I can survive on my own and take care of myself.” She is also pursuing a certificate in Law, Justice and Culture. By Alexis Karolin Ohio University junior […]