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A story widely distributed by the French news service AFP quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Melania Trump, America’s low-profile first lady.” Never in modern times — when Americans are accustomed to having visible and active first ladies — has a […]

WXXI News interviewed Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, for a Jan. 25 Connections segment on “Understanding the crisis in The Gambia.” WXXI is a National Public Radio (NPR) member station in Rochester, NY. “After weeks of crisis in The Gambia, is the small African nation […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History, received two research grants this year: Humanities Research Fund and the Baker Award. Trauschweizer is spending the 2016-17 academic year on an Ohio University Faculty Fellowship Leave. He is currently conducting research for his current manuscript on Maxwell Taylor, civil-military relations, and U.S. Cold War […]

In December, Dr. Kevin Uhalde, Associate Professor of History, finished his grading and traveled to Berlin, Germany to participate in a conference titled “Making Sense of the Oath in Late Antiquity and the Earlier Middle Ages: Religious Act, Social Bond, Holy Sacrament.” Uhalde was invited to participate in this conference. […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History, recently published Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia Rivier Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940. The book comes in the wake of several journal articles Sarr has published over the past several years, and makes a significant contribution to the literatures […]

Dr. Sarah Kinkel, Assistant Professor in the History Department, received one of five Baker Fund grants awarded during the Fall 2016 cycle. Kinkel received approximately $11,000 in research funds. Endowed in 1961 by a gift of more than $612,000 from 1926 College of Arts & Sciences graduate Edwin L. Kennedy and his wife, Ruth, […]

Dr. John Brobst, Associate Professor in the History Department, was hosted in September 2016 by the Center on American and Global Security at Indian University. As part of their Security Speak Series, Brobst presented a paper titled “‘The SUN Never Sets on the USN’:  Sea Power, Global Thinking, and the Indian […]