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Chris Nichols joined Oregon Public Radio's Think Out Loud with Dave Miller, in advance of his presentation, A Nation at 250 & Our Shared Future.
Listen to his talk on OPB…
This coming week, the ballots go out in the mail to Oregon voters. Oregon's Secretary of State and Portland's Mayor join up for a town hall promoting the security of November's election. And…
Nick Breyfogle, Yigit Akin, Elizabeth Dillenburg, and David Hoffmann were honored at the Ohio State vs. Kent State football game on September 19 as winners of…
Chris Nichols and Kaveri Sarkar published the article What we talk about when we talk about US strategic ‘credibility’ – from Vietnam to Iran in The Conversation on October 9th.…
PhD Candidate Sierra Phillips was honored with the Association of Black Women Historians' 2026 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award for the Best Graduate…
Dr. Peter L. Hahn, Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus, presented the keynote address "War and Diplomacy: U.S. Policy in the Middle East After the…
The Department of History is pleased to celebrate Ryan Metz, who has been elected Graduate Student Representative for The Society for Historians of…
Dr. Peter Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) and the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History, discussing the averted attack on the RAF base housing B-1 bombers in England, the…
Professor Jason Opal was featured as a guest columnist for an op-ed article published in The Columbus Dispatch on pride and hope in America at 250 years.
Read the full article at The…
Did the Greeks Really Believe Their Myths? Prof. Johnston on Bad Gods, Sticky Stories & Modern Myths
This is a conversation with Professor Sarah Iles Johnston, a classicist,…
Professor Peter Mansoor was interviewed by NewsNation on various topics including Iran, Ukraine, and the Pentagon.
View the NewsNation segment.
COL, U.S. Army (Ret.) Professor Peter R. Mansoor was quoted extensively on how the U.S. military will retain the lessons of recent wars as combat veterans retire. Included is a vignette from…
The White House Historical Association announced the selection of Dr. Maxine Wagenhoffer, Director of the Hankey Center for the History of Women's Education and Assistant Professor of History at…
Associate Professor R. Joseph Parrot has been awarded both the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History and the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize Honorable Mention…
Professor Pete Mansoor was interviewed live by CNN's Jim Sciutto on the latest developments in the Ukraine War. This segment aired live on June 8th, 2026.
CNN's Recording of Retired…
Department of History academic and pre-law advisor Ms. Kari Swygart has been appointed president-elect of the Academic Advising Association of The Ohio State University (ACADAOS) for the 2026 – 27…
This lecture challenged the familiar story that places the civil rights movement in the South and centers it on a few national leaders. Focusing on Ohio, it examined how the state constructed its…
History Professor Kristina Sessa co-edited a special issue of Studies in Late Antiquity on paleosciences and the study of the premodern world. "Late Antiquity and the Paleosciences: New Frontiers"…
Congratulations to Professor Bruno Cabanes on winning the 2026 Ohio Academy of History’s Distinguished Historian Award! The Distinguished Historian Award honors a distinguished historian, with an…
History faculty and students recently surprised Professor Bert Harrill while he was teaching his last class. They celebrated his achievements and congratulated him on his upcoming retirement.
…
85 years ago this month, Captain America first appeared in comics. Prof. Joe Parrott shares the history in a new podcast by Our American Stories.
From the Our American Stories website:
“President Trump’s newfound focus on Asia and personal diplomatic exchanges and meetings with leaders in Japan, South Korea and China mark a significant shift for him, as overall tariff policy and…
Recently, Professor Theodora Dragostinova delivered the annual Şarik Tara Memorial Lecture at the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program of Northwestern University, which seeks to emphasize the…
Congratulations to David Brakke on being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during a ceremony held at Harvard University in October.
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Congratulations to Assoc. Professor Jennifer Eaglin on her Fulbright award! She states, "I am conducting research on the history of nuclear energy development in Brazil. I am using archives across…
On October 20th, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources dedicated a historical marker honoring Alum Creek State Park's connection to the Underground Railroad. Text on the marker was written by…
Professor Emeritus Peter Hahn was recently interviewed by 21 News WFMJ-TV in Youngstown regarding the Gaza ceasefire.
Watch the video.
He was also interviewed about Carter…
Prof. Kip Curtis' Ohio State Microfarming Project is expanding! The American Farm Enterprise has signed a contract with the Hall Hunger Initiative in Dayton to facilitate a local food summit on…
Professor Peter Mansoor was a guest on C-Span's Washington Journal on October 2nd, discussing the recent meeting in Quantico with the President and Secretary of Defense and the senior military…
We're thrilled to celebrate Prof. Hasan Kwame Jeffries on his induction into the Ohio Civil Rights Commission Hall of Fame! His dedication to advancing civil and human rights inspires us all. This…
Asst. Professor María Hammack has been collaborating with Black Seminole communities in Mexico and the United States for over 4 years. She has not only shared her written research with them, but…
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…
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…
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…
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 essays…
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…
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 on successfully defending her dissertation, "Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity: A Cultural and Environmental History, c. 300–600 CE." Alyssa's committee…
In a new article for Strategika, Prof. Peter Mansoor writes of "Military History in Academia" and says that, "Academic military history in the United States has come a long way since its…
Congratulations to Peter Mansoor on the publication of his new book, Redemption, MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines (Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2025).
Redemption is a…
Congratulations to Ben St. Angelo on his new position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Ohio Wesleyan University for next academic year. Ben graduated in spring of…
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Flannigan on receiving the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize for 2025 for her book, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547,…
Congratulations to Lydia Walker on being awarded the James J. Busuttil Medal and Prize for Human Rights by the Royal Asiatic Society. From its website:
"Lydia Walker’s States-in-Waiting…
Congratulations to Bruno Cabanes on the upcoming publication of his new monograph, "Les fantômes de l'île de Peleliu. Récit ," [The Ghosts of Peleliu Island] (Editions du Seuil,…
Congratulations to Prof. R. Joseph Parrott on the upcoming publication of his new book, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism," (U. of Penn Press,…
Military History Professor Peter Mansoor appeared yesterday on Anderson Cooper's AC360 program on CNN with Ambassador Brett McGurk. They continued their discussion on the Israel / Iran conflict.…
On Monday, June 16th, history professor and retired Colonel Peter Mansoor appeared on Anderson Cooper's program, AC360, on CNN with Ambassador Brett McGurk, with whom he worked in Iraq. They…
We're sad to announce the passing of our emeritus colleague, Ray Dominick. For 30 years, Professor Dominick taught European history on the Mansfield campus until his retirement in 2001. After…
Congratulations to Joe Parrott and Elizabeth Dillenburg on being promoted as Associate Professors with tenure!
Elizabeth Dillenburg specializes in the history of modern Europe with a…
26 May 2025 – As the nation observes Memorial Day, it pauses to remember and honor the service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country. For the Ohio State…
Congratulations to alum Frank Blazich, Jr. on publication of his new book, "John Hasey, Un Américain dans la Légion." Back in 2017, Frank collected the uniform and records of John F. Hasey, the…
Congratulations to Michael Kraemer on his new position as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati!
Congratulations to Kiki Mackaman-Lofland on her new role in a tenure-track position in the Department of History at the University of Utah! Kiki obtained her PhD from Ohio State last year and is…
While on the travel portion of the Transnational History of WWII Program, students have been blogging about their experiences.
Julianna Logan posts: "During my visits to the Commonwealth…
Congratulations to Ohio State history PhD alum Melvin Barnes on accepting a tenure-track position on faculty at the University of Michigan-Flint!
Congratulations to Ohio State history alum Shawn Conroy (PhD 2024) on his new tenure-track position at Texas A&M University! Shawn's advisors were David Hoffmann and Nicholas Breyfogle.
Congratulations to history Professor Emeritus Mansel Blackford on the publication of his new research monograph Land Hunger: Ohio and the Western Frontiers (Athens: Ohio University Press,…
Congratulations to Asst. Professor Elizabeth Dillenburg on winning two awards on the Newark campus!!! She has won both the 2025 Teaching Excellence Award in the non-tenured, tenure-track faculty…
Congratulations to Jim Harris on publication of his research monograph, Children’s Health and Urban Ecology in England, 1885–1919 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2025)! Purchasing…
Congrats to Professor Peter Hahn on his recent retirement and on being named a Distinguished University Professor! The Office of Academic Affairs awards this permanent, honorific title on a…
Congratulations to Professor David Brakke on being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and…
Friends, family, colleagues, and students joined in surprising Prof. Peter Hahn last Friday during his last lecture before becoming an Emeritus Professor. Congratulations to Professor Hahn!
Congratulations to history major Sarah DiCapua who successfully defended her thesis, "Trials of the Desert: Monastic Discipline and Demonic Conflict in Late Antique Egypt." Her advisor is…
Congratulations to Adam Blair on successfully defending his undergraduate research distinction thesis, "Images of Martyrs in Early Christian Literature: The Figure of the Roman Magistrate in the…
Congratulations to alum Galia Nurko (B.A., history, 2012) on receiving the Emerging Leader Alumni Award! The award recognizes an alumnus/a in their early or mid-career who has demonstrated…
Henry Misa and Alisher Khaliyarov (PhD, Ohio State 2021) have just published a new article, "A climate for the Khans: reinterpreting the economic history of the Khivan Khanate with paleoenvironmental…
Congratulations to Ben St. Angelo on successfully defending his dissertation, "Divided Steel: African American Steelworkers, Jim Crow Unionism, and the Law, 1890-1974"! His co-advisors are Randy…
Congratulations to Peter Hahn on the publication of his new book, "Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Oxford University Press.
Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs…
Awards Recognize Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences Research
The Ohio State University is proud to announce that Theodora Dragostinova has been awarded a…
Congratulations to Amelia Figler on successfully defending her BA/MA in Public History thesis, "Manifestations of Collective Memory in Public Sites of Commemoration"! Her advisor is David Staley and…
Congratulations to Macy Wade on successfully defending her Public History Master's thesis, "The Idealized House Museum: One Solution for America’s Historic House Problem"! Macy was a participant…
Congratulations to Hannah Holbert on successfully defending her M.A. thesis, "Whose History Is It Anyway: Historical Societies and Their Importance," last Friday. Her advisor is David Staley, and…
Congratulations to Cam Givens on successfully defending his dissertation, "White Scare: The First World War and the Decade that Made Modern America, 1914-1924," today! His advisor is Bruno Cabanes…
This morning Daniela defended her thesis entitled “The Spanish Question: Migration, Identity, and Settler Politics in French Algeria, 1830-1939.” Alice Conklin is her advisor and committee members…
Congratulations to Professor David Hoffmann on being awarded the 2025 Graduate Faculty Mentor Award! The award is the Ohio State Graduate School’s recognition of the exceptional guidance provided…
Congratulations to Professor Ousman Kobo on being awarded the 2024-25 Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Award. The award recognizes a member of the Arts & Sciences community who has a proven…
Congratulations to Alyssa Reynolds, Administrative Associate & Asst. to the Chair, on being awarded the 2024-2025 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award! Alyssa has done an excellent job…
Congratulations to Robin Judd on being named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor colleagues…
Yesterday, military history professor Peter Mansoor was a guest on NPR's "All Sides with Amy Juravich" discussing, "How will the Signal group chat leak impact national security?" Fellow guests…
Congratulations to Meg Brosneck on successfully defending her research thesis, "Alternative Education during the Holocaust." Meg was advised by Professor Robin Judd. The other members of her…
Lerner receives President and Provost’s Award for Distinguished Faculty Service
(from the Office of International Affairs website)
March 25, 2025Mitch Lerner, professor of…
Congratulations to Yiğit Akın on the publication of a Turkish translation of his 2018 book "When the War Came Home," published by Iletisim Yayinlari. Read about the English version of the book. Read…
Congratulations to Professor Tryntje Helfferich on receiving the 2025 Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award. The Brown award, established in October 2010, annually recognizes superior…
Congratulations to María Hammack on being awarded the 2024-2025 Rodica C. Botoman Award!
Established July 2006 by the Board of Trustees at The Ohio State University with gifts from Ben M…
Sucharita Sen, Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow, has a new article, "Caste No Bar? Non-Resident Indian Grooms Searching for Brides in Kolkata," in the Public Humanities journal.
“…
From the Office of International Affairs website:
As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at The Ohio State University, Sucharita Sen has found her time both personally enriching and…
Asst. Prof. Amanda Respess unraveled the mysteries of medieval shipbuilding and early trade routes on The Medieval Podcast hosted by Daniele Cybulskie. From lost archaeology beneath the waves to…
Celebrating Professor Margaret Sumner's amazing achievement! She's just been honored with the 2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship certification from Outreach and Engagement for her…
Congratulations to Jen Getson, History Dept. Senior Academic Program Services Specialist, on receiving the 2024-25 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award!
Since joining the…
Congratulations to our Denman participants! Maya Badhwar, “Colonization, Empire, & the Girlhood Ideal of Femininity in Victorian Britain” (The Human Experience Category, Mentor: Birgitte Soland) Adam…
Congratulations to Edward Kunz on receiving a 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowship at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Washington DC. Well done!
Learn more about the…
Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team last week at the NAACP Image Awards reception. The team's book, Picturing Black History, was nominated for an NAACP Image…
Congratulations to Professor Peter Hahn on the upcoming publication of his new book, "Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945," (Univ. of Nebraska Press), in April…
Congratulations to history majors Justina Sung and Seth Conklin who are co-recipients of the Center for the Study of Religion's Savko Award for Best Undergraduate Paper.
The Savko Award for…
Congratulations to former history & Mershon Center post doc Joe Stieb on his new role as a tenure-track assistant professor in Modern US Military History at UNC Chapel Hill!
“'In the 1940s and 50s, women of all ages read romance comics,' says Sydney Heifler, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University and part of a new wave of scholars exploring the connections between…
History provides insightful lessons - and Professor Peter Hahn examines past trends to gauge future probabilities. His newest article for Time's Made by History discusses the complexities…
Congratulations to Professor Mitch Lerner on receiving the Honors Faculty Service Award! The award recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors instruction, honors committee work, and other…
History Professor María Hammack was interviewed on Eva Longoria's podcast, "Hungry for Change," in an episode titled: "Freedom Fighters in Mexico and Texas" released on January 23, 2025. Listen…
In a recent Science Sundays presentation, "CSI: Medieval England," History Professor Sara Butler examined crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and why people today want to believe the medieval…
(from the Sustainability Institute website:)
Story by Christine Andreeva, SI Student Communications Assistant and COP29 Attendee.
January 28, 2025
In November, ten…
On a recent episode of the ConnecTED podcast, COP29 participants Carissa Garcia and Isabel Rosario-Montalvo shared their experiences at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku,…
Ohio State History Professor Bart Elmore and undergraduates Tom Dunn and Cherod Bowens were recent guests on WOSU's All Sides with Amy Juravich. They discussed their attendance at the United…
We're excited to share the news that History and Islamic Studies double major Salma Albezreh will be presenting at the Stamps Eminence Senior Symposium on Jan. 16th. Salma is one…
After giving a talk at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Theodora Dragostinova was interviewed by the Bulgarian National Radio about her research on the repatriation of children in the…
In Semafor's One Big Idea - "Media's Return to the Past" Prof. Christopher McKnight Nichols states, "For most of US history journalists and the press were overtly, often sensationally…
Military History Professor (& retired Col.) Peter Mansoor was a guest on World is One News - India (WION) on Dec. 2nd discussing the latest violence in Lebanon and Syria.
Video Description:…
Teacher and Origins staffer Kristin Osborne and Origins Managing Editor and graduate student Paul McAllister recently represented Picturing Black History and Origins: Current…
Alum Whitney Dirks (Ph.D. 2013) has written a new book, Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England, Curiosity to See and Behold, published by Amsterdam University Press. …
"What is decolonisation?" is a new essay written by Lydia Walker, published in the magazine Aeon, about how people talk about decolonisation.
The essay begins:
"Decolonisation…
(From Ohio State News:)
Graduate students explore underground archive through ‘Picturing Black History’ book project Ohio State facilitated opportunity with Getty Images…
Discover the intriguing history of Baku, the host city for this year's COP29: U.N. Convention on Climate Change. Did you know it was home to one of the most significant Indian merchant communities…
Congratulations to history Ph.D. alum Frank Blazich who was decorated last week by French General Francois Lecointre with the Médaille de la Défense nationale at the National World War I Memorial…
Congratulations to alum Rob Williams on the upcoming publication of his book, "The Airborne Mafia," in March of 2025 by Cornell University Press.
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We’re thrilled to announce publication of our book Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World which is in bookstores today! Picturing Black History…
Ellen Arnold's new book, "Water in World History," takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries…
Prof. Christopher McKnight Nichols was interviewed as part of the new CNN Fareed Zakaria 1-hr. special on "America First and American Isolationism." His interview drew on his research and…
(From Ohio State News)
Program leverages liberal arts to give students distinctive educational experienceWritten by Franny Lazarus
What do Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,…
John Brooke has written a new article for Shepherd.com showcasing his choices of best books on the North during the Civil War and what he likes about each book.
He says, "After a life of…
Congratulations to Prof. Robin Judd on being reappointed by Governor Mike DeWine for another term on the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission beginning October 15, 2024, and…
Congratulations to Assistant Professor DeAnza Cook on being awarded an Inaugural Norman G. Pauling Early Career Research Fellowship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society! The prestigious award recognizes…
Congratulations to Henry Misa on being awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Henry's advisor Scott Levi states, "Henry's dissertation leverages…
On August 27th, recent graduate Neil Humphrey took part in a historical marker dedication at Headlands Beach State Park. Neil currently works as a historical researcher for the Ohio Department of…
Research tracks early Native and African American citizenship
(From Ohio State News)
Written by Franny Lazarus
The students working with Margaret Newell in her historical…
The COVID-19 pandemic, together with ongoing public health crises such as the uptick in opioid overdoses, the rise in obesity-related health conditions, and declining life expectancy, has…
Congratulations to James Esposito who successfully defended his dissertation, “Last Breath: Artificial Breathing Apparatus at Work and War in Britain, 1905–1945," on August 19th. His committee…
Won't Back Down, a comics anthology that Sydney Heifler contributed a comic to has been nominated for an Ignatz award for the Outstanding Anthology category. The anthology was edited by the…
Professor David Stebenne admits the 2024 election cycle is keeping him very busy. He has written several posts on his Substack site and been a guest on All Sides with Anna Staver.
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Professor Peter Mansoor was quoted about the Israel-Hamas War for an August 5th CNN Special Report on Jake Tapper's show. As part of the interview he stated, “The only way this conflict will end…
From Ohio State News:
Written by Jeff Grabmeier
New crime laws, police funding and similar efforts may have…
In a new article, "History's Oldest Roads Shaped Civilizations Since 4000 B.C." for Discover Magazine, Amanda Respess shares, "The Silk Road was a network of roads that ran across a large land…
Assistant Professor María Hammack delivered a talk about Juneteenth and Mexican freedom at the Department of State in June.
She stated that it was, "A highlight of my career and an honor to…
Congratulations to Katherine Weiss on receiving the prestigious Gerda Henkel fellowship from the Historial de la Grande Guerre and for becoming one of 200 recipients of the award since 1992, and…
The Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders at the University of Oxford recently interviewed Lydia Walker about her book, "States-in-Waiting":
The concept of self…
In 1846, Mercer County, Ohio, residents and officials violently prevented 383 formerly enslaved people from the Randolph plantation, who migrated to Ohio from Virginia, from settling on land they had…
Prof. John Low and Emeritus Professors Lucy Murphy and Christine Ballengee Morris were interviewed about the history of the Newark Earthworks by Jacob Carozza for the "NOW at Ohio State" podcast.…
Are consumer goods companies doing their part to curb plastic pollution? History Prof. Bart Elmore says beverage makers rank amongst the world's biggest plastic polluters due to their reliance on…
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the United States v. Rahimi that the historical record supported a federal law barring those under restraining orders in domestic-violence cases from…
In a new report, "Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective," for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Professor Randy Roth writes, “When citizens…
Congratulations to Robin Judd on being named a finalist for the 83rd annual Ohioana Book Award for her book, "Between Two Worlds." Since 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards have been presented to…
Congratulations to Lydia Walker on publication of her new book, "States-in-Waiting, A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization," (Cambridge Univ. Press).
After the Second World War,…
Christopher McKnight Nichols recently sat down with David Staley for a Voices of Excellence podcast interview. Professor Nichols spoke about isolationism, internationalism, the impact of…
Congratulations to Nicholas Breyfogle, Alcira Dueñas, and Robin Judd on their new appointments to full Professor of History!
Nicholas Breyfogle is a specialist in the…
In Max Boot's new op-ed, "David Petraeus Warns Israel's Clear and Leave Strategy Won't Work," in The Washington Post he quotes Peter Mansoor as follows:
"In a similar vein, retired…
Congratulations to Justin Salgado on receiving a Global Arts + Humanities Graduate Team Fellowship! The fellowships are financial awards made based on academic merit through a division-wide…
Congratulations to Professor Thomas McDow on the publication this month of his new book, A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History, (Duke University Press). Written with Edward A…
Ohio State history major and Hoffman Fellow Elizabeth Albertson was interviewed by 10TV on graduation day. Elizabeth spoke about her experiences at Ohio State and life as a Buckeye.
On April 18th, students participated in Professor Margaret Newell's History 3070 Native American History to Removal Research Poster Rodeo. The session was judged by Dr. Ray Irwin, Dr. Daniel…
Lydia Walker was interviewed recently by David Staley on the Voices of Excellence podcast.
Episode Description:
States-in-Waiting: Professor Lydia Walker on…
On Tuesday, April 23rd, in separate ceremonies, history graduate and undergraduate students received awards. Phi Alpha Theta also held its new member initiation. Below are images from the…
Congratulations to Peter Hahn on being named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor! The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor colleagues…
Professor Sara Butler was interviewed by Assoc. Professor David Staley in a recent episode of the "Voices of Excellence" podcast entitled, "Sara Butler: Medieval Myth Buster."
Sara Butler is…
Congratulations to Professor Margaret Newell on being selected for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Ireland for the academic year 2024-2025. She will be the Fulbright-UCD Mary Ball…
Congratulations to Lydia Walker on the upcoming publication of her new book, "States-in-Waiting, A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization," (Cambridge University Press, May 2024).
Access…
Prof. Randy Roth was interviewed by Voices of Excellence host David Staley for a new episode, "When You're a Historian, You See the Civil War Everywhere."
Episode…
Congratulations to Catalina "Kiki" Mackaman-Lofland on successfully defending her dissertation, "Algeria’s French University: Colonial Higher Education and North African Studies at the Faculté des…
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…
Congratulations to Sara Butler on receiving the 2024 Distinguished Scholar Award. The Distinguished Scholar Award is among the highest annual honors The Ohio State University bestows on a faculty…
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bond on receiving the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. The Ratner Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate creative teaching and extraordinary…
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…
"A Sartorial Life — Conversation about Fashion and Comics with Trina Robbins" is a new interview by Sydney Heifler for WomenWriteAboutComics.com. Trina Robbins is an American cartoonist. The two…
Congratulations to Neil Humphrey on successfully defending his dissertation, "In a Dog's Age: Fabricating the Family Dog in Modern Britain, 1780-1920." His advisor is Chris Otter and his committee…
Congratulations to Robin Judd on being selected to receive the 2023-24 College of Arts and Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award! The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes…
Congratulations to Sarah Beaumont-White for winning the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award for 2023-24!
The College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Awards,…
Prof. David Stebenne was recently interviewed by ABC11 about the history of Soul City, NC. The story, "Black-led utopia legacy lives on in Soul City, North Carolina: 'Courage and Conviction'"…
On Monday, March 4th, Christopher McKnight Nichols appeared on The Reid Out with Joy Reid on MSNBC.
Watch the Program Segment
Congratulations to Margaret Sumner for winning the 2023-2024 Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. The award "supports a member of the Humanities faculty…
Congratulations to Assoc. Professor Sarah Van Beurden on being awarded the Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award in English and History. The award, established in October 2010, annually…
Prof. Hasan Kwame Jeffries was recently featured on All Sides with Anna Staver on WOSU discussing the state of police reform in Ohio.
Program Description:
It’s been…
Congratulations to history Administrative Associate Alyssa Reynolds on being awarded the Willie J. Young Sr. Staff Impact Award.
The Office of Student Life award is given to professionals…
Congratulations to history alum Dillon Streifeneder (PhD 2022) who has just accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy.
In a recent New York Times guest essay, "The World Feels the Trump Touch," written by Thomas B. Edsall, Ohio State History Prof. Christopher Nichols provided insight on U.S. foreign policy and…
"The Silk Road," an exhibit curated by Ohio State Marion history professor Amanda Respess & Gayle Strege, Dir. of Ohio State's Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection was the focus of a recent…
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…
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 heroically…
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…
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…
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…
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 on successfully defending his dissertation, "Demarcating Epirus: Disentangling Religious Communities in Europe's Forgotten Borderland." His advisor is…
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. 22nd…
Professor Mytheli Sreenivas' book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, has been named a finalist for an ACLS…
Prof. Geoffrey Parker was presented with the 2023 Award for Scholarly Distinction by the American Historical Association at a ceremony this month. The award is given to senior historians of the…
United Nations COP28 served as a classroom for climate education
by Franny Lazarus for Ohio State News, Lazarus.34@osu.edu
In early December, delegations from…
Andrea (Rice) Brookover (BA, History, Ohio State, 2002) is Executive Director of the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission. Ray…
Professor Greg Anderson was a recent guest on TEDxOhioStateUniversity's podcast, "ConnecTED Columbus."
Hosts Millena and Sarayu discussed the ins and outs of ancient Greece and criticisms…
Congratulations to Heather Tanner on winning the 2024 Ohio Academy of History Teaching Award. Details will be announced on the Academy's website in the future. The teaching award recognizes…
Professor Chris Nichols and PhD Candidate Cameron Givens have published, "What Happened After Pearl Harbor Is a Reminder of the Danger of Stereotypes and Conspiracy Theories" in TIME's Made by…
Congratulations to Professor Theodora Dragostinova on being awarded the 2023 John D. Bell Book Prize from the Bulgarian Studies Association for her book, The Cold War from the Margins: A Small…
In April 1993, Henry Kissinger visited Ohio State and met with Prof. Peter Hahn and honors students. Prof. Hahn shares memories of the visit along with a photo of the event.
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Environmental Historians Bart Elmore and Nick Breyfogle were recent guests on The National News Business Extra podcast, discussing the history of COP and their upcoming trip to COP28 in Dubai.
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Professor Peter Mansoor was recently interviewed on CBCNN Live about the situation in Israel and Gaza.
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He was also quoted in Business Insider.
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Ori Yehudai, Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Associate Professor of History, has provided historical context and actively worked to help students in his courses understand the situation…
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Lucy Murphy on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory at their recent annual meeting in Tallahassee.
The…
Ohio Wesleyan Professor Emeritus Richard Smith (Ohio State History Ph.D. alum), shown here with Prof. Peter Hahn, recently celebrated his 100th birthday at an event at Ohio Wesleyan University.
From the Office of International Affairs:
John Mahama was the president of Ghana from 2012 to 2017, following a decades-long career serving as a member of Parliament and then vice president…
Retired Col. and Prof. Peter Mansoor appeared on AC360 with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, October 24th. They discussed the situation in Gaza. Prof. Mansoor will appear on AC360 again on October 25th…
Congratulations to Prof. Geoffrey Parker on receiving the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction. The award is given to senior historians of the highest distinction for…
Congratulations to Prof. Emeritus Michael Les Benedict on receiving the AHA Troyer Steele Anderson Prize. The prize is awarded on a regular basis to the person whom the AHA Council considers to…
Peter Mansoor was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer yesterday (10/22) about the clash between Hamas and Israeli forces inside Gaza.
Congratulations to Hasan Kwame Jeffries on receiving the 2023 Legends and Legacies Award at the King Arts Complex's 16th Annual awards ceremony. The Legends and Legacies program "recognizes the…
History Prof. Chris McKnight Nichols talks of isolationism and internationalism in the early Cold War and the transformations of the era marked by the election of 1952 in "Should the United States…
Peter Hahn discusses the history of U.S. involvement in the Gaza region, in a new article, "Israel must consider 'the day after' in Hamas war, 9/11 lessons, Ohio State historian says," for The…
Peter Mansoor's article, "A reflexive act of military revenge burdened the US − and may do the same for Israel," was published in The Conversion on October 16. This article is republished from The…
Peter Mansoor was interviewed on CNN about the Israeli tank movements toward the Gaza Border on Oct. 13, 2023.
Congratulations to Mitchell Lerner and Christopher Nichols on their newly elected positions at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Learn more about SHAFR here.
We're excited and proud to share the news that according to the 2023 EduRank review, our department's research performance in the field of history in “Best Universities for History in the World"…
"Read any newspaper or look at any website, and it’s clear that things are tense across the world. And national security is on the top of many people’s minds. But what is this concept of national…
Center for Historical Research Analyzes Human Race Through "Anger in History" Program
by Tommy Hudec for The Lantern (published September 20, 2023). (Copied here under Fair Use.)…
(Photo: John E. Hancock/Ohio History Connection/UNESCO World Heritage Nomination Office)
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Congratulations to Nicholas Breyfogle and Phil Brown on publication of their new book, "Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History" (Oregon State University…
Professor Ousman Kobo has published a tribute to his mentor Professor William Brown in the new issue of The Journal of African History (Sept. 1, 2023).
In the piece, he states, …