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Law, Justice & Culture fall 2022 courses include Slavery in the Americas, Politics of Race, Crime and Media, and more

Law, Justice & Culture fall 2022 courses include Slavery in the Americas, Politics of Race, Crime and Media, and more

From Ohio University News The Center for Law, Justice & Culture’s law-related graduate course offerings for fall 2021 include both online and in-person courses for students in the M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture. The fall offerings include core courses as well as electives on Slavery in the Americas, the […]

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March 25, 2022 at 2:19 pmNews

Matthew Ward studies law and justice, puts degree to work as an OHIO Civil Rights Investigator

Matthew Ward

From Ohio University News Ohio University alumnus Matthew Ward was drawn to the M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture program as a way to learn more about social justice issues following the murder of George Floyd. “In the Summer of 2020, I, like many others, was moved by the civil […]

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February 8, 2022 at 2:48 pmAlumni News

Alumni News | Francisco Cintrón turns history into his future

Francisco Cintrón with Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell and classmates in Rome.

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. From Ohio University News Ohio University alumnus Francisco Cintrón said a Western Civilization course at OHIO drew him into history, particularly the history of the medieval […]

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December 6, 2021 at 12:38 pmAlumni

Dantas looks to Brazil, most prominent slave society in the Americas, for insight on Black freedom in the Age of Abolition

Dr. Mariana Dantas

From Ohio University News When most Americans think of the history of slavery in the Americas, they think of the U.S. South, but Brazil was in fact the most prominent slave society in the Americas. Almost half of Africans trafficked through the Atlantic slave trade (over 4 million people) were […]

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November 30, 2021 at 10:15 amNews Research

Winning Student Essays Explore Wide Range of History Topics

2021 prize winners and history majors (clockwise from top left) Holly Thompson, Eli Wanner, Justin Boyle, and Miranda Christy.

The Ohio University History Department awarded four undergraduate essays with this year’s Randolph Stone Prize. Each Randolph Stone Prize winner receives a cash award as well as recognition at the Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Justin Boyle originally wrote “New Mexican and Hawaiian Statehood: National Identity in Twentieth-Century America” as his […]

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March 25, 2021 at 4:20 pmIn Class News

History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

In the past few months, members of the Ohio University History Department have participated in a number of online events, sharing their research and collaborating with an international community of scholars amidst a pandemic that caused the widespread cancelation of in-person events. When the COVID pandemic caused shutdowns around the […]

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March 18, 2021 at 11:07 amResearch

Summer 2021 | M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture Announces Online Course Offerings

Summer 2021 | M.A. in Law, Justice & Culture Announces Online Course Offerings

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture has announced its law-related online graduate course offerings for summer 2021. View the course offerings. Summer registration is open. Summer eCampus course offerings are all asynchronous seven-week (condensed) courses. They are offered during the first summer session (May 10 to June 26) or […]

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February 25, 2021 at 5:03 pmNews