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WOUB’s Conversations from Studio B recently hosted a roundtable discussion between academics and artists on “Material Histories: Cultures of Resistance,” showing Sept. 29 through Oct. 22 at Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, Ohio. The exhibition brings together work by contemporary ceramicists focusing on human rights, natural resources, and the intersections of […]

Ohio University alum Laura Seddelmeyer is currently an Assistant Professor at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pa. Seddelmeyer earned an M.A. in History in 2009 and a Ph.D. in History in 2014 from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She also earned a Contemporary History Certificate. Seddelmeyer has […]

  On Friday, Oct. 13, at 1:3o pm in the Mitchell Auditorium of the OHIO School of Art + Design, a panel of faculty members and artists will convene as part of the Material Histories: Cultures of Resistance Exhibit. The panel will feature openning commentary and audience-participation around the themes […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, recently contributed to a roundtable, “Teaching the Introductory Middle East History Survey Course,” in the journal Review of Middle East Studies (published by Cambridge University Press). The roundtable featured contributions from seven historians, most of whom had significant teaching and publishing experience. Abu-Rish’s contribution […]

Ohio University alum Gerald Goodwin ’14Ph.D. recently published “Black and White in Vietnam” in the New York Times. The opinion piece draws on his ongoing research, part of which was completed as his 2014 doctoral dissertation, “Race in the Crucible of War: African American Soldiers and Race Relations in the […]

WOUB’s Spectrum recently featured an interview with Dr. Steven Miner, Professor of History at Ohio University. Miner is the author of the award-winning Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance (1988), as well as Stalin’s ‘Holy War’: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance […]

The Ohio University community is invited to attend screenings of the 2017-18 “Travel Ban” Film Series. The events will include feature and documentary films from each of the six countries that the Trump Administration’s “travel ban” targets: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. At each event, a faculty member will introduce […]