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Alum Will Rosenberger Wins Hoover Institution Award
Congratulations to alum Will Rosenberger on winning the Director’s Choice Award at the Hoover Institution’s Summer Policy Boot Camp at Stanford University…

Melvin Barnes Featured in WOSU Film
History PhD alum Melvin Barnes was featured in a recent documentary, "The Lincoln Story," on WOSU."The Lincoln School Story follows a group of Black mothers in Southwest Ohio as they…

David Stebenne Pens New Posts Re: Upcoming Presidential Election
Professor David Stebenne has written two pieces for Democracy in America Now. The first, What We Have Learned from the Results in Iowa and New Hampshire, was published Jan. 24th and the second,…

Congratulations to Matthew Raskin
Congratulations to Matthew Raskin on successfully defending his undergraduate honors thesis, "A Story of Cathedrals and Castles: How Ecclesiastics and Chroniclers Used Racism to Build." Pictured…

Ben St. Angelo Serves As Historical Consultant for PBS Program
Graduate student Ben St. Angelo was a historical consultant for the PBS program Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. which aired on PBS last week. Ben's research on the 1937 Little Steel…

Congratulations to Robin Judd
Congratulations to Robin Judd on winning two National Jewish Book Awards for her 2023 publication, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press). "Between Two Worlds" won…

Congratulations to Christopher Kinley
Congratulations to Christopher Kinley on successfully defending his dissertation, "Demarcating Epirus: Disentangling Religious Communities in Europe's Forgotten Borderland." His advisor is…

New Marion Campus Exhibit: "The Silk Road"
A new exhibit, "The Silk Road," curated by Ohio State Marion history professor Amanda Respess and Gayle Strege, Director of Ohio State's Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection, will open Jan.…
Mytheli Sreenivas Finalist for ACLS Open Access Book Prize
Professor Mytheli Sreenivas' book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, has been named a finalist for an ACLS Open Access Book Prize in the history category. One …