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Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was recently announced as a 2019 recipient of the Zhu Kezhen Junior Award for her published article, “Microbial Transformations: The Japanese Domestication of Penicillin Production, 1946-1951,” in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 48 (2018): 441-474. The International Society for the […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, contributed the entry on “Hakkō” (Fermentation) to the recently published Kagakushi jiten (Encyclopedia of the History of Chemistry), edited by Kagakushi gakkai (Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry). The encyclopedia, published in April 2017, will be the major Japanese-language reference work on the history of chemistry. Lee’s research focuses on […]

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 […]

Dr. Charlie Morgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, gave an information session this week about Ohio University’s exchange program with Musashi University in Tokyo, Japan. In brief, eligible students can study for a semester or a year. All courses are in English with one Japanese language course – so no prior […]

On Thursday, March 12, the Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Michael A. Barnhart on “Japan’s Fateful Choices: Entering and Exiting the Pacific War, 1941-1945” at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Barnhart is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University. His major works include Japan Prepares for […]

The Governor of Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, which was inundated by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, said thank you to donors from the United States at a Thank You Tomodachi event in New York Aug. 26 with an evening of celebration and remembrance. The event featured words of gratitude from the Iwate […]

Dr. Christopher Thompson, Chair of Linguistics in the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences and Executive Director of Japan Relations, represented Ohio University at a farewell reception for Consul General Kuninori Matsuda at the Japanese Consulate in Detroit on June 21. “Ohio University wishes to express its sincere gratitude […]