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Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. Hannah Caldwell ’16 is in her second year at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she is an Honors Writing Fellow and a student […]

Heather Salazar, doctoral student in the History Department, recently secured a number of research grants both from Ohio University and beyond: an OHIO Original Work Grant, an ABC-Clio Research Award, and a United States Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Research Grant. Salazar plans to use the funds, totaling $4,250, to advance […]

The Ohio University History Department hosted its 12th Annual Undergraduate History Conference on Friday, April 20, 9:30am – 5pm in Bentley Annex 402. The conference featured three panels of student presentations. It will conclude with an awards ceremony that will announce this year’s inductees into the Phi Alpha Theta honor society as well as the […]

History doctoral student Alexander Lovelace received an Ohio University Student Enhancement Award of $4,992 for his dissertation project, provisionally titled “Total Coverage: How the Media Shaped Total War.” He plans to use the funds to visit the U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s Library and Archives, The FDR Presidential Library, and […]

Psychedelic Chile: Youth, Counterculture, and Politics on the Road to Socialism and Dictatorship, a new book by Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej, was listed as one of the “Historical Studies of 2017 to Highlight” by the large daily newspaper La Tercera (Santiago, Chile). Barr-Melej is Professor of History at Ohio University. The […]

History doctoral student Alexander Lovelace received the John Cady Graduate Fellowship from Ohio University for the 2018-19 academic year. The award is one of five named competitive fellowships awarded by the Graduate College and for which any nominated OHIO graduate student is eligible. “Your project, ‘Total Coverage: How Media Shaped […]

The Washington Post quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “How are Donald and Melania doing? Why America cares about the presidential marriage.” Asking “How is the Trump marriage” isn’t just a matter of idle gossip, said Katherine Jellison, an Ohio […]