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Ohio University alumnus Mike Rattanasengchanh, who earned a Ph.D. in History and a Contemporary History Certificate in May 2019, accepted a position as Assistant Professor of History at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, just weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in closures across the nation. Despite the unprecedented […]

The Ohio University History Department invites proposals for its 14th Annual Undergraduate History Conference. This year’s conference will be take place via Microsoft Teams on Friday, March 26. Why participate? The History Conference offers students an opportunity to publish their work in a conference format, engage peers and faculty members […]

Each year the Ohio University History Department awards the Randolph Stone Prize to reward excellence in the writing of history. Undergraduate students of any major are invited to submit an essay, review, or research paper recently written for any OHIO History Department course. Entries are due Monday, March 1, 2021. […]

Dr. John O’Keefe examines the topic of foreign migrants and citizenship during the formative years of the United States in his new book, Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2021). O’Keefe is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University’s Chillicothe campus. […]

Dr. Victoria Lee joined epidemiologist and shōchū ambassador of Japan Dr. Stephen Lyman in a public lecture hosted by the Japan Foundation of Toronto. Their discussion of the brewing mold kōji is part of the series “Healthy Hakkō: The Fermented Culinary Arts of Japan.” “From soy sauce to miso to […]

  The Ohio University History Department invites applications for the M.A. in History for fall 2021. Tuition scholarships are available, and the application is open through Feb. 15. “Our nationally ranked program offers a comprehensive M.A. with both a thesis and a non-thesis track. We are especially interested in recruiting […]

The Nation writer Samuel Zipp reviews Dr. Kevin Mattson’s xxx in an article headlined The Ethical Commitment to Be a Punk. Mattson’s book begins and ends with Cobain’s death, but it’s really a kind of coda to the larger story he hopes to tell. It’s an indicator of the stakes […]