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The University Professor Selection Committee recently selected Dr. Michele Clouse, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, as one of the four annual University Professor Award recipients for 2016-17. The award recognizes “outstanding teaching at the university.” Students initially nominated Clouse as part of a university-wide open call by the Center for Teaching and Learning […]

The History Department at Ohio University recently marked the end of the 2015-16 academic year by recognizing the academic accomplishments of undergraduate majors and the graduating class of history majors. On Friday, April 29, 2016, the History Department convened its annual reception for graduating undergraduate seniors. The department chair, Dr. Katherine […]

Ohio University’s Kelee Riesbeck interviewed Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History, for  an episode of “Conversations from Studio B” titled Iberian Queens Played Integral Part in Formation of Portugal. Kelee Riesbeck talks about Iberian queens, kings and royal daughters with Associate Professor of history Miriam Shadis, whose research project, “Mothers, Daughters, […]

Matt Johnson and Adam Givens, both Ph.D. students in the History Department at Ohio University, have been selected as 2016 Graduate Summer Research Associates at the RAND Corporation. RAND is a non-profit non-partisan research organization that provides research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. The Summer Research Associate Program […]

Guy Aldridge ’15M, an alumnus of the M.A. program in the History Department at Ohio University, will be starting his Ph.D. studies in the History Department at the University of Maryland in fall 2016. Aldridge graduated from Ohio University in spring 2015, after completing his master’s degree under the supervision of Assistant […]

Dr. Miriam Shadis, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, recently received a Fulbright Scholar Award to conduct research in Portugal. The Fulbright Scholars Program is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Shadis plans to make use of the fellowship during her […]

The National Humanities Center announced that Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor in the History Department at Ohio University, will be a resident fellow at the center during the 2016–17 academic year. Dantas and the 36 other leading scholars were selected from a pool of 449 applicants. The NHC is a privately incorporated […]