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Dr. Kevin Mattson, the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University, appeared on Charlotte Talks on NPR affiliate WFAE. Mattson’s appearance was part of the show’s coverage of a new play, “Confidence (and The Speech),” being performed in Charlotte, N.C.. Mattson was joining the play’s writer and director. Mattson is […]

The Ohio University Class of 2018 featured the first students graduating with a Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate. Approved in Spring 2017, the certificate program provides undergraduate students from across campus with a focused interdisciplinary combination of courses on the history and contemporary politics of the region. In […]

  As part of its efforts to compliment in-class education and serve as a resource to the Ohio University community, the History Department is pleased to present the following events during the Fall 2018 term. All are free and open to the public. Director’s Talk: Tamer El Said Thursday, Sept. […]

The History Department’s new advising program provides more career planning and professional development for history majors and minors. “While we know our students enter a number of careers after graduation, the fields of law, public history and museum studies, and secondary education have emerged as the top three career interests […]

For 10 weeks during the 2018 summer, Jen Sutton, M.A. student in the History Department, interned at the U.S. Embassy Madrid in the Economic section. A significant part of Sutton’s internship was spent providing administrative assistance for official events including IN3, a premier entrepreneur and investment event held in Spain in October. She […]

Luke Griffith, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, will serve as an adjunct professor at the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College during the 2018-19 academic year. At the McArthur Center, Griffith will teach American History II, a course that traces the development of the United States […]

Three History Department faculty members were promoted in rank in June. Dr. Robert Ingram was promoted to the rank of professor. His latest book publication, Reformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018), offers a radical reinterpretation of the English Reformation. “No one in 18th-century […]