Stephen Habash Receives 2024 College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Award for Distinguished Service
(Posted March 25, 2024)
Congratulations to Stephen Habash (BA, ancient history and classics, 1974; JD, 1978) on receiving the 2024 College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Award for Distinguished Service. The award recognizes exemplary service to the College of Arts and Sciences, its faculty, students and programs. Find out more about the award.
Carol Anderson Recognized in Office of Diversity and Inclusion Hall of Fame
(Posted March 14, 2024)
Congratulations to Ohio State alum Carol Anderson (Ph.D., OSU Dept. of History, 1995) on being recognized for her extraordinary professional contributions to diversity and inclusion with a place in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Hall of Fame.
Carol earned her PhD in History in 1995 with a focus on 20th-Century U.S. International Relations, 20th-Century African American history, 20th-Century American history, and 20th-Century European International history. Professor Peter Hahn served as her advisor.
Dillon Streifeneder Accepts New Position
(Posted Feb. 26, 2024)
Dillon Streifeneder (PhD 2022) has accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy.
Will Rosenberger Wins Hoover Institution Award
(Posted Feb. 12, 2024)
Congratulations to alum Will Rosenberger on winning the Director’s Choice Award at the Hoover Institution’s Summer Policy Boot Camp at Stanford University. Will was graduated in Spring 2023 with a B.A. in history and has since been participating in Teach for America in Cleveland. His winning submission was, "Cumbersome Assessment Process Won’t Fix Ohio’s Education Woes."
Melvin Barnes Featured in WOSU Documentary
(Posted Feb. 12, 2024)
"The Lincoln School Story follows a group of Black mothers in Southwest Ohio as they heroically fight for school desegregation. After Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954, the Lincoln School Marchers marched with their children to the white elementary school, demanding admission—only to be turned away. They woke the next morning and marched again. And again. For over two years, they marched in what became one of the longest-sustained actions of the nation’s Civil Rights movement."--Ohio Humanities Website
Will Chou Receives Hudson Institute Fellowship
(Posted May 26, 2023)
Congratulations to history alum, Will Chou, PhD, who will be joining the Hudson Institute as the Japan Chair Fellow later this summer. His work will be focusing on initiatives that support US, Japanese, and partner efforts to build a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific during this pivotal time.
Recently, National Defense interviewed Will for their report on Australia's new Defence Strategic Review, "ANALYSIS: Australia's New Strategic Review Has Big Implications." He observed that the document reflects the US, Japan, and their partners' commitment to shared strategic concepts, interoperability, and industrial resilience, and would create decisions for the Chinese leadership.
Yulonda Eadie Sano and Cherisse Jones-Branch Edit New Book Series, Rural Black Studies
(Posted May 24, 2023)
Ohio State PhD history alums Dr. Yulonda Eadie Sano and Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch are editing a new book series, Rural Black Studies, by the Univ. of Arkansas Press. The series focuses on the history of rural Black people who opted out of the South’s Great Migration.
Both Dr. Jones-Branch and Dr. Sano are from the South (South Carolina and Mississippi) and have written about African Americans in the rural South in their research. Dr. Jones-Branch, the Dean of the Graduate School at Arkansas State University, is the author or editor of several University Press books, including Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times(University of Georgia Press), Crossing the Line: Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II (University Press of Florida), and Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps:Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 (University of Arkansas Press). Dr. Sano is assistant professor of history in the Department of Social Sciences at Alcorn State University, where she teaches courses in American, African American, and world history. Her scholarship on physician Edith Mae Irby Jones and the integration of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine appears in Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
“The Rural Black Studies series,” write the editors, “will be both multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary, focusing on how race, gender, culture, economy, and agriculture shape our understanding of African Americans in rural communities.”
Find out more about the Rural Black Studies series.
Steve Gietschier Recipient of Henry Chadwick Award
Steve Gietschier has been named a recipient of the Society for American Baseball Research’s 2023 Henry Chadwick Award - an award established to honor the game’s great researchers, historians, statisticians, annalists, and archivists for their invaluable contributions to making baseball the game that links America’s present with its past. Gietschier earned his PhD in History at Ohio State and worked at The Sporting News for many years and then taught at Lindenwood University. He recently retired from teaching and continues to be a productive scholar as evidenced by his new book from the University of Nebraska Press, Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years.
Frank Blazich, Jr. Awarded Prize
(Posted Jan. 13, 2023)
Congratulations to history alum Frank Blazich, Jr. on receiving the Smithsonian Institution Secretary's Research Prize, which recognizes and promotes excellence in scholarship across the Smithsonian. The award is for his work, "Notre Cher Ami: The Enduring Myth & Memory of a Humble Pigeon," and carries a $2,000 prize.