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This past August, Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently gave a talk on “The ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in the Early Chinese Republic” at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Modern History in Beijing. He discussed the curious (and little known) appearance of “Second Amendment”-style protections for […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History, is spending the 2016-17 academic year on an Ohio University Faculty Fellowship Leave. His main focus will be on researching for his current manuscript on Maxwell Taylor, civil-military relations, and U.S. Cold War strategy. The book project is tentatively titled “Cold Warrior: Maxwell Taylor […]

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History, is spending the current academic year (2016-17) on an Ohio University Faculty Fellowship Leave. Shadis will be researching and writing her next book project, Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Saints: Gender and State Formation in Early Portugal (1100-1250). This is a study of the first […]

The History Department welcomes a new faculty member to the Athens campus this Fall 2016. Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor, joins the History Department after serving as a 2014-16 Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science […]

The History Department at Ohio University prides itself on the scholarly productivity of its faculty. During the 2016 summer, a number of its historians published their findings, conducted archival research, appeared on national media, and organized a number of scholarly and public activities.  Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, published […]

Dr. Robert Ingram, Associate Professor in the History Department, co-edited a volume titled God in the Enlightenment (Oxford University Press). The volume brings together recent scholarship from distinguished experts in history, theology, and literature to argue that religion thrived within the Enlightenment. For Ingram and co-editor William J. Bulman, the […]

Dr. John Brobst, Associate Professor in the History Department, published “‘No Scope for Arms Control’: Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s,” in Strategy and the Sea: Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell, and […]