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Sara Butler Guest on Medievalists Podcast
Recently, Professor Sara Butler explained what forensic medicine and death investigations were like in Medieval times on the Medievalists.net podcast. Listen below or on the Medievalists website.…

History Major Salma Albezreh Graduates from Ohio State as Stamps Eminence Scholar
This past August, Salma Albezreh graduated from Ohio State as a Stamps Eminence Scholar with dual majors in History and Islamic Studies after successfully defending her honors thesis, “The Pathology…
John Brooke & Eric Herschthal Win Forest History Society’s 2025 Theodore C. Blegen Award
Congratulations to John Brooke and Eric Herschthal on winning the Forest History Society’s 2025 Theodore C. Blegen Award for their article, “The Plantation Carbon Complex: Slavery and the Origins…

New Book Edited by Scott Levi
Congratulations to Scott Levi on the publication of, "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Commercial History" (Oxford Univ. Press)!
The three-volume set includes more than 100 original…

New Book of Essays Published in David Brakke's Honor
Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion is a new set of essays published in honor of David Brakke. Edited by Ellen Muehlberger and Bradley K. Storin, it was published by Brepols…

New Documentary Featuring Bart Elmore's Monsanto Research
Based in part on research from Professor Bart Elmore's book, "Seed Money," a new documentary, "Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds," produced by Veritasium, explains the…

Congratulations to Alyssa Kotva!
Congratulations to Alyssa Kotva on successfully defending her dissertation, "Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity: A Cultural and Environmental History, c. 300–600 CE." Alyssa's committee…