2024-2025 Undergraduate Student Handbook

The history major consists of a minimum of 33 credit hours at the 2000-level and above. At least 21 of these 33 credit hours must be taken at the 3000 level and above. Three courses, History 2800, two 4000-level Seminars are required, and at least 24 more hours must be chosen within the categories outlined below. Students are encouraged to design a history major in consultation with an academic advisor, who must approve all courses taken toward the major. Ideally, the student should select history courses to complement general education (GE) courses, as well as those contained in another major or in minors. Many history courses may be counted toward the major and toward the embedded literacies requirements of the current GE program.

Overview

The 33 credit hours must fulfill the following four required areas (see below for details):

1. Skills Acquisition                  (9 credit hours)
2. Breadth                                   (12 credit hours)
3. Concentration                       (12 credit hours)
4. GE Embedded Literacies    (included in above credit hours)

If students double count courses and fulfill all of the requirements in Categories A-C before reaching the required 33 credit hours, they must still satisfy the 33-credit-hour requirement of the major. They will fill in the remaining credit hours with history courses of their choosing, but a student is never required to exceed 33 credit hours in order to fulfill the requirements in Categories A-C. With the academic advisor’s approval, up to six credit hours of courses from other departments may be designated as part of Category B (Breadth) requirements for the major program in history.

Limitations: No more than three credit hours of History 3193 or 4193 (“Individual Studies”), six credit hours of History 2798, 3798, or 4798 (“Study Tour”), or nine credit hours of 4998, 4998H, 4999, and 4999H may be counted towards the major program. Students must earn a C- or higher on all courses that apply to the major (except 2800, which must be a C or higher); one must have a GPA of 2.00 or higher in the major.

Category A: Skills Acquisition (9 credit hours)
The following three seminars (9 credit hours) are required of all history majors.

A (1) History 2800: Introduction to the Discipline of History (3 credit hours)
The “gateway” course for history majors, History 2800 emphasizes critical reading and writing, and introduces students to the methodologies, approaches, and historiographies of historical study. A student must pass History 2800 with at least a “C.”

A (2) Two 4000-level Seminars in History (6 credit hours)
The two seminars—normally taken in the third or fourth year—will focus on historiography, analysis, methodology and interpretation, and will emphasize research and writing skills. Note: History 4193, 4194 and 4797-4999 do not fulfill this requirement.

Category B: Breadth (12 credit hours)

Students are required to develop a program that includes chronological and geographic breadth.

This includes:

B (1) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing chronologically on the period before 1750;

B (2) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing chronologically on the period after 1750;

B (3) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing primarily on East Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia;

B (4) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing primarily on North America and/or Europe;

B (5) 1 course (3 credit hours) focusing on comparative, transnational, transregional, or global history. Lists of courses that fulfill each of these requirements are below.

Students are permitted to use one course to satisfy more than one of these five areas of breadth simultaneously. For example, a course on Ancient Rome would satisfy the pre-1750 requirement and a “Europe” requirement simultaneously. That is, geographical and chronological requirements can be fulfilled by the same course. In addition, the two 4000-level seminars can also fulfill any of these chronological and geographic requirements. That is, A (2) can simultaneously satisfy any of the requirements in Category B. For Example, History 4235 (Seminar in Medieval History) would not only satisfy one of the A (2) requirements of a Seminar but would also satisfy one pre-1750 requirement and one “Europe” requirement. Courses used to satisfy Category C (Concentration) can simultaneously count towards Category B and vice versa.

As a result, the total credit hours required for each of the five different sub-categories of Category B “Breadth” do not add up to the 12 credit hours required in this category. However, because of double counting, both within the requirements of Category B and among Categories A-C, no student will be required to take more than 12 distinct credit hours in Category B.

B (1) Two courses (6 credit hours) focusing on the period before 1750.

Courses in this category need not focus on a single region. The following courses fulfill the pre- 1750 requirement.

2001    Launching America
2045    History of American Religion to the Civil War
2065    Colonialism at the Movies: American History in Film
2080    African American History to 1877
2100    Introduction to the Spanish Atlantic World
2110    Introduction to Native American Peoples from Mesoamerica
2111    Introduction to Native American People of the Andes
2115    Saints and Sinners: Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Latin American History
2201    Ancient Greece and Rome
2202    Introduction to Medieval History
2203    Introduction to Early Modern Europe
2205    Western Civilizations to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery
2210    Classical Archaeology
2211    The Ancient Near East
2213    The Ancient Mediterranean City
2220    Introduction to the History of Christianity
2221    Introduction to the New Testament: History and Literature
2231    The Crusades
2240    Elizabethan England
2250    Empires and Nations in Western Europe, 1500 – Present
2251    Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1500 – Present
2271    Happiness in History and Practice
2275    Children and Childhood in the Western World
2301    African Peoples and Empires in World History
2350    Islam, Politics, and Society in History
2351    Early Islamic Society, 610 – 1258
2352    The Ottoman Empire, 1300 – 1922
2375    Islamic Central Asia
2390    Ancient India
2391    Islamic India
2401    History of East Asia in the Pre-Modern Era
2450    Ancient and Medieval Jewish History, 300 BCE – 1100 CE
2451    Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, 700 – 1700 CE
2600    Introduction to Women’s/Gender History
2641    Global History to 1500
2651    World History before the Modern Age
2680    It’s the End of the World! Apocalypticism in Christianity, Judaism & Islam
2700    Global Environmental History
2720    Big History
2725    Power in History
3001    American Political History to 1877
3010    Colonial North America to 1763
3070    Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560 – 1820
3080    Slavery in the United States
3090    Comparative Slavery
3100    Colonial Latin America
3106    History of Mexico
3110    The Jewish Experience in Latin America
3115    History of Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
3210    Archaic Greece
3211    Classical Greece
3212    Greece and the Mediterranean from Alexander to Cleopatra
3213    Slavery in the Ancient World
3214    Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Christianity
3215    Sex and Gender in the Ancient World
3216    War in the Ancient Mediterranean World
3217    Family, Household, and Kinship in the Ancient World
3218    Paul & His Influence in Early Christianity
3219    Historical Jesus
3220    The Rise of the Roman Republic
3221    History of Rome: Republic to Empire
3222    The Roman Empire, 69 – 337 CE
3223    The Later Roman Empire
3225    Early Byzantine Empire
3226    Later Byzantine Empire
3227    Gnostics and Other Early Christian Heresies
3228    Religion and Society in Late Antiquity
3229    History of Early Christianity
3230    Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe
3231    Creating Medieval Monsters: Constrictions of the “Other”
3232    Solving Crime in Medieval Europe
3235    Medieval Europe I, 300 – 1100
3236    Medieval Europe II, 1100 – 1500
3239    Medieval England
3240    History of the Italian Renaissance, 1250 – 1450
3241    History of the Italian Renaissance, 1450 – 1600
3242    The Holy Roman Empire, 1495 – 1806
3245    The Age of Reformation
3246    Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485 – 1714
3247    Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, 1450 – 1750
3249    Early-Modern Europe, 1560 – 1778
3280    History of Russia to 1700
3304    History of Islam in Africa
3305    History of Islamic Movements in West Africa
3306    History of African Christianity
3307    History of African Health and Healing
3351    Intellectual and Social Movements in the Muslim World
3353    Jewish Communities under Islamic Rule
3354    Islamic Spain and North Africa
3355    The Early Islamic Conquests (Near East, pre-1750; PCS, RLN)
3375    Mongol World Empire: Central Eurasia, 1000 – 1500
3376    The Silk Road: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Eurasian History
3401    Foundations of Chinese Civilization
3402    Chinese Empire, 10th – 14th Centuries
3403    History of Early Modern China: 14th – 18th Century
3411    Gender and Sexuality in China
3425    History of Japan before 1800
3435    History of Early Modern Korea
3450    History of Ancient Israel (to 300 BCE)
3455    Jewish Life from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
3470    Messiahs and Messianism in Jewish History
3550    War in World History, 500 – 1650
3551    War in World History, 1651 – 1899
3640    Women: Navigating the Patriarchy in Medieval Europe
3641    Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe: 1450 – 1750
3710    European Environmental History
3711    Science and Society in Europe, from Copernicus to Newton
3715    Explorations of Science, Technology, and the Environment in East Asia
3720    The Corrupting Sea: The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean
5229    Paul and His Influence in Early Christianity

Any appropriate 4000-level seminar.

B (2) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing on the period after 1750.

Courses in this category need not focus on a single region. The following courses fulfill the post- 1750 requirement.

2001    Launching America
2002    Making America Modern
2010    History of American Capitalism
2015    History of American Criminal Justice
2040    History of Agriculture and Rural America
2045    History of American Religion to the Civil War
2046    Christianity and Liberation in the USA
2065    Colonialism at the Movies: American History in Film
2066    History of Medicine in Film
2070    Introduction to Native American History
2071    American Indian History of the U.S. West
2075    Introduction to U.S. Latino/a History
2079    Asian American History
2080    African American History to 1877
2081    African American History from 1877
2085    Exploring Race and Ethnicity in Ohio: Black Ohio in the 19th Century
2110    Introduction to Native American Peoples from Mesoamerica
2111    Introduction to Native American People of the Andes
2115    Women and Gender in Latin America
2120    Revolutions and Social Movements in Modern Latin America
2125    The History of Latin America through Film
2204    Modern European History
2206    History of Paris
2250    Empires and Nations in Western Europe, 1500 – Present
2251    Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1500 – Present
2252    People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe
2270    Love in the Modern World
2275    Children and Childhood in the Western World
2280    Introduction to Russian History
2301    African Peoples and Empires in World History
2302    History of Modern Africa, 1800 – 1960s
2303    History of Contemporary Africa, 1960s – Present
2350    Islam, Politics, and Society in History
2353    The Middle East Since 1914
2392    Colonial India
2393    Contemporary India and South Asia
2402    History of East Asia in the Modern Era
2452    Modern Jewish History, 1700 – Present
2453    History of Zionism and Modern Israel
2454    History of Anti-Semitism
2455    Jews in American Film
2475    History of the Holocaust
2500    20th Century International History
2550    History of War
2600    Introduction to Women’s/Gender History
2610    A Survey of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: Diversity and Intersections
2620    Women Changing the World: Histories of Activism and Struggle
2630    History of Modern Sexualities
2642    Global History 1500 to Present
2650    The World since 1914
2675    The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion
2700    Global Environmental History
2701    History of Technology
2702    Food in World History
2703    History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease
2704    Water: A Human History
2705    The History of Medicine in Western Society
2710    History of the Car
2711    History of Nuclear Energy
2725    Power in History
2750    Natives and Newcomers: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History
2752    Social Reform Movements in U.S. History
2911    The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation
3001    American Political History to 1877
3002    U.S. Political History since 1877
3003    American Presidential Elections
3005    The United States Constitution and American Society to 1877
3006    The United States Constitution and American Society since 1877
3011    The American Revolution and New Nation
3012    Antebellum America
3013    Civil War and Reconstruction
3014    Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877 – 1920
3015    From the New Era to the New Frontier, 1921 – 1963
3016    The Contemporary U.S. since 1963
3017    The Sixties
3020    19th Century American Ideas
3021    20th Century American Ideas
3030    History of Ohio
3031    American South to 1860
3032    History of the U.S. West
3040    The American City
3041    American Labor History
3045    American Religious History
3049    War and Dissent in American History
3070    Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560 – 1820
3071    Native American History from Removal to the Present
3075    Mexican American Chicano/a History
3080    Slavery in the United States
3081    Free Blacks in Antebellum America
3082    Black Americans during the Progressive Era
3083    Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
3085    African American History through Contemporary Film
3086    Black Women in Slavery and Freedom
3089    Studies in African American History
3090    Comparative Slavery
3101    South America Since Independence
3102    Central America and the Caribbean Since Independence
3105    History of Brazil
3106    History of Mexico
3107    History of Argentina
3110    The Jewish Experience in Latin America
3115    History of Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
3250    Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1750 – 1815
3251    History of Europe in the 19th Century
3252    People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe
3253    20th Century Europe to 1950
3254    Europe since 1950
3260    Britain in the 19th Century
3261    Britain in the 20th Century
3262    France in the 19th Century
3263    France in the 20th Century
3264    19th Century German History
3265    20th Century German History
3268    Eastern Europe in the 19th Century
3269    Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
3270    History of World War I
3273    Modernist Thought and Culture, 1880 – 1945
3275    Religion and its Critics in Modern Europe
3276    European Thought and Culture, 19th Century
3277    European Thought and Culture, 20th Century
3281    Imperial Russian History, 1700 – 1917
3282    History of the Soviet Union
3283    Siberia in World History
3301    History of Modern West Africa, post 1800
3302    Nationalism, Socialism, and Revolution in Africa
3303    War and Genocide in 20th- and 21st-century Africa
3304    History of Islam in Africa
3305    History of Islamic Movements in West Africa
3306    History of African Christianity
3307    History of African Health and Healing
3308    History of U.S.-African Relations, 1900 – Present
3309    Critical Issues of 20th-century Africa
3310    History of African Cinema
3311    Globalization and Development in Africa
3312    Africa and World War II
3313    Conflict in the Horn of Africa
3314    From Rubber to Coltan: A Long History of Violence & Exploitation in Central Africa
3352    Marginal Groups in the Non-Western World
3357    The Middle East in the 19th Century
3360    History of Iran
3365    History of Afghanistan
3404    Modern China, 1750 – 1949
3405    Contemporary China, 1921 – 2000
3410    Studies in Chinese History
3411    Gender and Sexuality in China
3426    History of Modern Japan
3436    History of Modern Korea
3460    European Jewish History, 1789 – 1989
3465    American Jewish History
3470    Messiahs and Messianism in Jewish History
3475    History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
3480    Israel/Palestine: History of the Present
3500    U.S. Diplomacy from Independence to 1920
3501    U.S. Diplomacy, 1920 – Present
3505    U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East
3506    Diplomacy, Congress, and the Imperial Presidency
3525    19th-century European International History
3526    20th-century European International History
3540    Modern Intelligence History
3551    War in World History, 1651 – 1899
3552    War in World History, 1900 – Present
3560    American Military History, 1607 – 1902
3561    American Military History, 1902 – Present
3570    World War II
3575    The Korean War
3580    The Vietnam War
3590    Wars of Empire and Decolonization
3612    Asian American Women: Race, Sex, and Representations
3620    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the U.S., 1940 – Present
3630    Same-Sex Sexuality in a Global Context
3642    Women in Modern Europe, from the 18th Century to the Present
3650    Families in Historical Perspective
3670    Trans-National History of World War II in Europe
3675    How to Stage a Revolution
3680    Religion and Law in Comparative Perspective
3700    American Environmental History
3701    History of American Medicine
3704    HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory
3705    History of Capitalism in Comparative and Global Perspective
3706    Coca-Cola Globalization: Hist. of Am. Business & Global Envir. Change, 1800 – Today
3708    Vaccines: A Global History
3710    European Environmental History
3712    Science and Society in Europe, from Newton to Hawking
3715    Explorations of Science, Technology and the Environment in East Asia
3724    History of the Arctic
3750    Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Global Perspective
4706    Chronic: Illness, Injury, and Disability in Modern History
4870    The Ohio State University: Its History and Its World
    Any appropriate 4000-level seminar.
 

B (3) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing primarily on East Asia, Africa, Latin America or the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Courses in this category need not focus on a single region. The following courses fulfill the Asia/Africa/ Latin America/Middle East geographical requirement.

2100    Introduction to the Spanish Atlantic World
2110    Introduction to Native American People from Mesoamerica
2111    Introduction to Native American People of the Andes
2115    Saints and Sinners: Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Latin American History
2120    Revolutions and Social Movements in Modern Latin America
2125    The History of Latin America Through Film
2211    The Ancient Near East
2221    Introduction to the New Testament: History and Literature
2301    African Peoples and Empires in World History
2302    History of Modern Africa, 1800 – 1960s
2303    History of Contemporary Africa, 1960 – Present
2350    Islam, Politics, and Society in History
2351    Early Islamic Society, 610 – 1258
2352    The Ottoman Empire, 1300 – 1922
2353    The Middle East since 1914
2375    Islamic Central Asia
2390    Ancient India
2391    Islamic India
2392    Colonial India
2393    Contemporary India and South Asia
2401    History of East Asia in the Pre-Modern Era
2402    History of East Asia in the Modern Era
2453    History of Zionism and Modern Israel
3100    Colonial Latin America
3101    South America Since Independence
3102    Central America and the Caribbean Since Independence
3105    History of Brazil
3106    History of Mexico
3107    History of Argentina
3110    The Jewish Experience in Latin America
3115    History of Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
3219    Historical Jesus
3301    History of Modern West Africa, post 1800
3302    Nationalism, Socialism, and Revolution in Africa
3303    War and Genocide in 20th- and 21st-century Africa
3304    History of Islam in Africa
3305    History of Islamic Movements in West Africa
3306    History of African Christianity
3307    History of African Health and Healing
3308    History of U.S.-African Relations, 1900 – Present
3309    Critical Issues of 20th Century Africa
3310    History of African Cinema
3311    Globalization and Development in Africa
3312    Africa and World War II
3313    Conflict in the Horn of Africa
3314    From Rubber to Coltan: A Long History of Violence & Exploitation in Central Africa
3351    Intellectual and Social Movements in the Muslim World
3353    Jewish Communities under Islamic Rule
3355    The Early Islamic Conquests
3357    The Middle East in the 19th Century
3360    History of Iran
3365    History of Afghanistan
3375    Mongol World Empire: Central Eurasia, 1000 – 1500
3401    Foundations of Chinese Civilization
3402    Chinese Empire, 10th – 14th Centuries
3403    History of Early Modern China: 14th – 18th Century
3404    Modern China, 1750 – 1949
3405    Contemporary China, 1921 – 2000
3410    Studies in Chinese History
3411    Gender and Sexuality in China
3425    History of Japan before 1800
3426    History of Modern Japan
3435    History of Early Modern Korea
3436    History of Modern Korea
3450    History of Ancient Israel (to 300 BCE)
3475    History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
3480    Israel/Palestine: History of the Present
3704    HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory
3715    Explorations in Science, Technology and the Environment in East Asia
    Any appropriate 4000-level seminar.

B (4) 2 courses (6 credit hours) focusing primarily on North America or Europe. Courses in this category need not focus on a single region. The following courses fulfill the North America/Europe geographical requirement.

2001 Launching America
2002 Making America Modern
2010 History of American Capitalism
2015 History of American Criminal Justice
2040 History of Agriculture and Rural America
2045 History of American Religion to the Civil War
2046 Christianity and Liberation in the USA
2065 Colonialism at the Movies: American History in Film
2066 History of Medicine in Film
2070 Introduction to Native American History
2071 American Indian History of the U.S. West
2075 Introduction to U.S. Latino/a History
2079 Asian American History
2080 African American History to 1877
2081 African American History from 1877
2085 Exploring Race and Ethnicity in Ohio: Black Ohio in the 19th Century
2201 Ancient Greece and Rome
2202 Introduction to Medieval History
2203 Introduction to Early Modern Europe
2204 Modern European History
2205 Western Civilizations to 1600: Rise, Collapse, and Recovery
2206 History of Paris
2210 Classical Archaeology
2213 The Ancient Mediterranean City
2240 Elizabethan England
2251 Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1500 – Present
2252 People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe
2270 Love in the Modern World
2275 Children and Childhood in the Western World
2280 Introduction to Russian History
2455 Jews in American Film
2475 History of the Holocaust
2610 A Survey of U.S. Women’s and Gender History: Diversity and Intersections
2705 The History of Medicine in Western Society
2750 Natives and Newcomers: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History
2752 Social Reform Movements in U.S. History
3001 American Political History to 1877
3002 U.S. Political History since 1877
3003 American Presidential Elections
3005 The United States Constitution and American Society to 1877
3006 The United States Constitution and American Society since 1877
3010 Colonial North America to 1763
3011 The American Revolution and New Nation
3012 Antebellum America
3013 Civil War and Reconstruction
3014 Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877 – 1920
3015 From the New Era to the New Frontier, 1921 – 1963
3016 The Contemporary U.S. since 1963
3017 The Sixties
3020 19th-century American Ideas
3021 20th-century American Ideas
3030 History of Ohio
3031 American South to 1860
3032 History of the U.S. West
3040 The American City
3041 American Labor History
3045 American Religious History
3049 War and Dissent in American History
3070 Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560 – 1820
3071 Native American History from Removal to the Present
3075 Mexican American Chicano/a History
3080 Slavery in the United States
3081 Free Blacks in Antebellum America
3082 Black Americans during the Progressive Era
3083 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
3085 African American History through Contemporary Film
3086 Black Women in Slavery and Freedom
3089 Studies in African American History
3210 Archaic Greece
3211 Classical Greece
3212 Greece and the Mediterranean from Alexander to Cleopatra
3213 Slavery in the Ancient World
3214 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the History of Christianity
3216 War in the Ancient Mediterranean World
3217 Family, household, and kinship in the Ancient World
3220 The Rise of the Roman Republic
3221 History of Rome: Republic to Empire
3223 The Later Roman Empire
3225 Early Byzantine Empire
3226 Later Byzantine Empire
3227 Gnostics and Other Early Christian Heresies
3228 Religion and Society in Late Antiquity
3230 Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe
3231 Creating Medieval Monsters: Constructions of the “Other”
3232 Solving Crime in Medieval Europe
3235 Medieval Europe I, 300 – 1100
3236 Medieval Europe II, 1100 – 1500
3239 Medieval England
3240 History of the Italian Renaissance, 1250 – 1450
3241 History of the Italian Renaissance, 1450 – 1600
3242 The Holy Roman Empire, 1495 – 1806
3245 The Age of Reformation
3246 Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1485 – 1714
3247 Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, 1450 – 1750
3249 Early-Modern Europe, 1560 – 1778
3250 Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1750 – 1815
3251 History of Europe in the 19th Century
3252 People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe
3253 20th Century Europe to 1950
3254 Europe since 1950
3260 Britain in the 19th Century
3261 Britain in the 20th Century
3262 France in the 19th Century
3263 France in the 20th Century
3264 19th Century German History
3265 20th Century German History
3268 Eastern Europe in the 19th Century
3269 Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
3273 Modernist Thought and Culture, 1880 – 1945
3275 Religion and its Critics in Modern Europe
3276 European Thought and Culture, 19th Century
3277 European Thought and Culture, 20th Century
3280 History of Russia to 1700
3281 Imperial Russian History, 1700 - 1917
3282 History of the Soviet Union
3283 Siberia in World History
3455 Jewish Life from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
3460 European Jewish History, 1789 – 1989
3465 American Jewish History
3500 U.S. Diplomacy from Independence to 1920
3501 U.S. Diplomacy, 1920 – Present
3505 U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East
3506 Diplomacy, Congress, and the Imperial Presidency
3525 19th Century European International History
3526 20th Century European International History
3560 American Military History, 1607 – 1902
3561 American Military History, 1902 - Present
3612 Asian American Women: Race, Sex, and Representations
3620 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in the U.S., 1940 – Present
3640 Women: Navigating the Patriarchy in Medieval Europe
3641 Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 1450 – 1750
3642 Women in Modern Europe, from the 18th Century to the Present
3670 Trans-National History of World War II in Europe
3700 American Environmental History
3701 History of American Medicine
3710 European Environmental History
3711 Science and Society in Europe, from Copernicus to Newton
3712 Science and Society in Europe, from Newton to Hawking
3720 The Corrupting Sea: The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean
4870 The Ohio State University: Its History and Its World
Any appropriate 4000-level seminar.

B (5) 1 course (3 credit hours) in comparative, transnational, transregional, or global history.

The following courses fulfill the comparative/transnational/ transregional/global requirement.

2105 Latin America and the World
2220 Introduction to the History of Christianity
2231 The Crusades
2250 Empires and Nations in Western Europe, 1500 – Present
2271 Happiness in History and Practice
2450 Ancient and Medieval Jewish History, 300 BCE – 1100 CE
2451 Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, 700 – 1700 CE
2452 Modern Jewish History, 1700 - Present
2454 History of Anti-Semitism
2500 20th Century International History
2550 History of War
2600 Introduction to Women’s and Gender History
2620 Women Changing the World: Histories of Activism and Struggle
2630 History of Modern Sexualities
2641 Global History to 1500
2642 Global History 1500 to Present
2650 The World since 1914
2651 World History before the Modern Age
2675 The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion
2680 It’s the End of the World! Apocalypticism in Christianity, Judaism & Islam
2700 Global Environmental History
2701 History of Technology
2702 Food in World History
2703 History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease
2704 Water: A Human History
2710 History of the Car
2711 History of Nuclear Energy
2720 Big History
2725 Power in History
2911 The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation
3090 Comparative Slavery
3215 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World
3218 Paul & His Influence in Early Christianity
3222 The Roman Empire, 69 – 337 CE
3229 History of Early Christianity
3270 History of World War I
3352 Marginal Groups in the Non-Western World
3354 Islamic Spain and North Africa
3376 The Silk Road: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Eurasian History
3470 Messiahs and Messianism in Jewish History
3540 Modern Intelligence History
3550 War in World History, 500 – 1650
3551 War in World History, 1651 - 1899
3552 War in World History, 1900 – Present
3570 World War II
3575 The Korean War
3580 The Vietnam War
3590 Wars of Empire and Decolonization
3630 Same-Sex Sexuality in a Global Context
3650 Families in Historical Perspective
3675 How to Stage a Revolution
3676 Leadership in History
3680 Religion and Law in Comparative Perspective
3702 Digital History
3705 History of Capitalism in Comparative and Global Perspective
3706 Coca-Cola Globalization: Hist. of Am. Business & Global Envir. Change, 1800 – Today
3708 Vaccines: A Global History
3724 History of the Arctic
3750 Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Global Perspective
4706 Chronic: Illness, Injury, and Disability in Modern History
5229 Paul and His Influence in Early Christianity

Category C: Concentration (Geographic or Thematic): 12 credit hours

Students must take 12 credit hours in either a geographical or a thematic concentration. Students are permitted to count relevant courses from A (2) simultaneously toward this total, as well as up to 12 credit hours from category B (1-5), but courses in other departments may not count toward the concentration requirement.

C (1) Geographical concentrations:
North America; Latin America;
Europe (including Russia);
Near East, Middle East, Central Asia, and/or South Asia; East Asia; and Africa.

C (2) Thematic concentrations:
History of colonialism and comparative empires (CCE); Conflict, peace, and diplomacy (CPD);
History of environment, science, and technology (ETS); Global, early modern (GEM);
Power, culture, and society (PCS);
History of race, ethnicity, and nation (REN); Religious history (RLN);
Social justice (SOJ); and
Women’s, gender, and sexuality history (WGS).
Students may also arrange their own thematic concentrations with the permission of an advisor.

Category D: Embedded Literacies (credit hours included in categories A-C)

By means of coursework within the history major, students may also fulfill the GE embedded literacies requirements: (1) advanced writing; (2) data analysis; and (3) technology. The lists of applicable courses follow.

D (1) Advanced writing courses.
Any two 4000-level history seminars.

D (2) Data analysis course.
2800    Introduction to the Discipline of History

D (3) Technology course.
2800    Introduction to the Discipline of History

In addition to the basic requirements for the history major, honors students should complete the following requirements.

1. Honors history majors are encouraged to take honors version of History 2800.
2. Honors students are encouraged to take honors versions of the other 24 credit hours of other courses (discussed above), whenever possible. Students should only take non-honors 2000-level courses when a topical equivalent is not available at the 3000 level.
3. Honors students are encouraged to take more of the 4000-level seminars than the two required for the major.
4. Advanced ability in foreign languages is important for all honors students choosing the history major. Every honors student choosing the history major is encouraged to develop proficiency (meaning the ability to read newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and novels) in at least one foreign language.
5. Senior honors thesis: Honors students wishing to be graduated “With Honors Research Distinction” are required to write a senior honors thesis. In preparation, they are encouraged to use the coursework from a 4000-level seminar as the foundation for the thesis.
6. History honors majors who are not in pre-professional programs, engaged in a minor in pursuit of a professional or graduate program, or taking a second major must complete a major of at least 39 credit hours. Students completing a thesis and earning a degree “With Honors Research Distinction” may use the 6-9 credit hours earned in History 4999H toward the 39-credit-hour minimum.

Purpose

Honors students majoring in history complete both the major and the requirements for "Honors in the Arts and Sciences" or "With Honors Research Distinction" or both. In order for history majors pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in the College of Arts and Sciences to maintain status as an honors student, they must follow the requirements that ASC Honors have laid out. Students earning a degree with “Honors Research Distinction” complete an Honors Thesis under the supervision of a thesis advisor in the Department of History. Some history majors satisfy the requirement for both designations and receive both designations on their degrees.

Honors students choosing the history major will engage in a course of study designed to sharpen writing, research, and analytical skills, to develop insights into how historians do their work, and to gain substantial historical knowledge. The history major furnishes excellent preparation for graduate-level work, for professional schools including law school, and for careers in business, education, the arts, and public service.

Honors students seeking help with their history major should first see Dr. Raymond Irwin (Irwin.8@osu.edu), 110 Dulles Hall, 614-292-7101. He is available to discuss the honors requirements and to help with scheduling classes. Students who undertake an honors thesis also will have a faculty advisor for that project and will enroll in History 4999H, “Honors Undergraduate Research Thesis.”

Expectations

Honors students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences work closely with advisors and members of the faculty to develop a rigorous program of study. Honors students majoring in history thus must work closely with the Arts and Sciences Honors program staff to ensure completion of the requirements of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program.

The faculty of the history department encourages the honors student to complete the degree “With Honors Research Distinction” through the writing of an honors thesis. Completion of a thesis is important preparation for successful performance in a professional or graduate program. Thesis completion occurs through enrollment in History 4999H, “Honors Undergraduate Research Thesis.” Students planning to write a thesis should, in consultation with their thesis advisor, define a topic and devise a plan of work at least two semesters prior to their anticipated graduation. They may also apply for the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship competition. 

Requirements

There are two components to the history honors program. The first is the major program in history; the second is the ASC Honors Program. The requirements for the major program in history for honors students have been described above. This section describes the various tracks the ASC Honors Program offers, along with Department of History requirements.

To be graduated with honors in the Arts and Sciences, students must complete all degree requirements, earn a cumulative GPA of 3.4, complete the Honors Coursework Requirements, and complete the Honors Project Requirements. All history courses at the 3000 level and above are considered “honors-quality coursework.” Within the Department of History, several options are available to fulfill one’s Honors Project, including:

A. An honors thesis leading to Honors Research Distinction.

The History Department faculty recommends that history honors students write an honors thesis, because completion of a thesis prepares students for graduate or professional school or professional employment.

A history honors student planning to graduate with Honors Research Distinction will:

• devise with the faculty thesis advisor at least two semesters before graduation a prospectus for the honors thesis. The ASC Honors Committee must approve the prospectus. While working on the thesis, the student will enroll in History 4999H for a total of at least 4 credit hours and a maximum of 9 credit hours.
• graduate with a GPA of no less than 3.40.
• meet the prerequisites for History 4999H: the completion of at least 18 credit hours in history, with a grade point average in the history courses of at least 3.50.
• enroll in a History 4999H, “Honors Undergraduate Research Thesis.”

B. An internship.

History honors students planning to use an internship or internships toward their honors project requirements will:

• secure an internship.
• consult with Raymond Irwin (irwin.8@osu.edu) regarding enrollment in History 3191.

C. A research experience.

History honors students planning to use a research experience toward their honors project requirements will:

• meet with a faculty member to negotiate the scope and outcomes of the research.
• enroll in at least three credit hours History 4998H; faculty permission and assistance from the departmental honors advisor, Raymond Irwin (irwin.8@osu.edu) will be required.

D. A global education experience. 

History honors students planning to use a global education experience toward their honors project requirements have many options, including faculty-led tours and programs sponsored by the University’s Office of International Affairs.

Note: Under exceptional circumstances, the Department of History is willing to modify the requirements of the honors program in history to fit the specific needs of individual students. Such modifications must conform to the policies of the Arts and Sciences Honors Committee.

Academic advisors at The Ohio State University play a critical role in student success. Advisors are available to help students plan and execute their program of study, work towards professional goals, and connect students to campus resources. The advising relationship is a partnership, and students are highly encouraged to meet with their assigned advisor once a semester. In addition to academic and career planning, academic advisors can assist with questions regarding the major or minor, grades, transfer credit, petitions, scheduling, degree planning, graduation, and more.

Scheduling an Appointment: Students have the option of an in-person or virtual advising appointment. To request an advising appointment, please email your assigned academic advisor, Kari Swygart (Swygart.3@osu.edu) or Raymond Irwin (Irwin.8@osu.edu), using your OSU student email. In your email request, please note your reason for the appointment request, weekly meeting availability (days/times), preference for in-person or virtual, and your student ID number.

Student academic records are confidential and protected by law. If you plan to bring a guest or have a guest on speakerphone, please fill out a Student Information Release form in BuckeyeLink.

Student Responsibilities: As a student, you should be actively engaged in your academic career and aware of your responsibilities. Please pay attention to your campus email daily, maintain good academic standing, and refer to the University Registrar for important dates and deadlines. Please review the following information to prepare for your advising appointment , and if you cannot attend the appointment, please call or email in advance.

Academic Standing: All students are required to maintain good academic standing. If your GPA falls below 2.0 and/or you are not making satisfactory progress towards your degree, the College of Arts and Sciences will notify you of your updated academic status. You may be placed on academic warning, academic probation, or special action probation. Continuous periods of academic difficulty may lead to academic dismissal. If you are struggling academically, please make arrangements to meet with your academic advisor as soon as possible.

Withdraw or Take a Leave of Absence: We understand that life can be unpredictable. If you find yourself in a situation where you will need to withdraw from courses or decide to not enroll the following term, please set up an advising appointment.

Return from Leave of Absence or Academic Dismissal: If you are seeking to return from a leave of absence or academic dismissal, please contact the advising office of the major you were enrolled in when you left. A petition for reinstatement will need to be filed and approved for any instances of academic dismissal.

Graduation: Students must apply for graduation no later than the graduation deadline set by the college. The College of Arts and Sciences graduation application process requires students to meet with their assigned advisor to review and complete the graduation application. Approval for graduation is granted at the end of the semester once a final review is completed. Details regarding commencement are released close to the graduation date.

Each year, the Department of History awards tens of thousands of dollars in undergraduate scholarships and grants, as well as prizes for extraordinary theses and outstanding work submitted in history courses and seminars. Grant and scholarship applications typically must be submitted in early March.

Lloyd Roberts Evans Endowed Scholarship in History

Lloyd Roberts Evans (BA 1933, History; MD, Harvard, 1940) led a distinguished career as a physician specializing in general internal medicine. The scholarship was established by the sister of the honoree, Jane Ann Evans Nielsen (BA 1936, History; BS 1936, Education), of Knoxville, Tennessee. The Evans Endowed Scholarship provides scholarships for undergraduate students of junior or senior rank who are majoring in history. The scholarship is awarded annually on the basis of both merit and need. Candidates for the scholarship should possess a GPA of 3.4 or above and exhibit a broad range of interests.

Dr. Morris Frommer Scholarship

The Frommer Award provides tuition support for an undergraduate student majoring in history and interested in studying abroad. The funds may be used for travel abroad expenses. Eligible recipient must show demonstrated financial need and above-average academic performance.

Fullmer Scholarship Fund

Provides student support for undergraduate students in the Department of History. Preference will be given to students studying in the areas of women’s history or the history of science.

Special consideration shall be given to candidates that are members of organizations recognized by the University that are open to all but whose missions seek to advance the need of historically underserved populations.

Timothy Gregory Scholarship for History and Archaeology in the Mediterranean Sea Region

Provides support for undergraduate or graduate students who are enrolled in the Department of History (“Department”), wish to pursue historical research or study abroad opportunities that include archaeology in the Mediterranean Sea region and demonstrate a desire to pursue archaeological work in the territory of Greece on any period from prehistory to modern times. Preference will be given to students who are majoring or minoring in history.

Hairston Scholarship

For an excellent history major who demonstrates financial need. Preference is given to students who graduated from high schools in the Appalachia region and students who are first-generation college students, students who have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles, or students who have experience living or working in diverse environments.

Austin Kerr Scholarship in Modern American History

The Kerr Fund supports research by an undergraduate student receiving history course credit. Preference shall be given to candidates with demonstrated financial need and whose projects have a focus on modern American history.

Allan R. Millett Study Abroad Scholarship

The Millett Scholarship supports a history major, with preference given to undergraduate students, to support their study abroad.

Adrienne A. and Marvin R. Zahniser Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded on the basis of academic merit to history majors entering, or soon to enter, their senior years at Ohio State, Columbus. Marvin Zahniser is a former Chair of Ohio State’s Department of History.

Dr. John T. Von Der Heide Scholarship

The Von Der Heide Scholarship supports history majors entering their senior years, based on merit and financial need.

Dr. John and Marilyn Nethers Endowed Scholarship

The Nethers Scholarship supports history majors.

Honors Research Grants

The Department annually awards grants to support thesis research.

Outstanding Research Seminar Essays

Faculty who teach undergraduate seminars nominate papers they consider truly outstanding. Those papers are then judged by a panel, which includes the department’s honors advisor and two members of the Undergraduate Teaching Committee.

History prepares students for a wide variety of careers. Reports from the Arts and Sciences Office of Career Services at Ohio State indicate that former history majors are working in business, banking, teaching, government service, social work, library and archival work, publishing, and law, among many other fields. History has always been recognized as one of the best undergraduate programs for those planning to go into law, but professional and business schools value a well-rounded liberal education as a basis upon which to build their programs.

Though history is an excellent major for students who do not know exactly what they would like to do professionally, the Department recommends that students explore career options as early as possible in their time as undergraduates. Students are encouraged to contact the Center for Career and Professional Success in the College of Arts and Sciences, which offers career coaching, signature programming, career fairs and events, and resume review. Students are advised to join one or more career communities and to sign up for Handshake, the University’s recruitment platform. Students also have free access to LinkedIn Learning where they can utilize the catalog of over 18,000 courses to develop and strengthen in-demand skills.

The Department of History also occasionally invites alums to speak with students about career paths. These talks are typically advertised on the Department’s website, through social media, and in the weekly news and updates, which is delivered by email during the academic year.

Preparing for EM Examination in History

In response to inquiries from students on how to prepare for EM examinations (credit by examination) in history, the Department’s faculty have compiled the following list of suggestions.

1. First, read the designated material carefully and thoroughly. For History 1211 and 1212 the commonly used text is McKay, Hill, and Buckler, History of Western Society, Vol. 1 for History 1211 and Vol. 2 for History 1212. The cut-off date for History 1211 is the year 1600. For History 1151 and 1152 the History Department recommends Nash and Jeffrey, The American People, 3rd ed., Vol. 1 for History 1151 and Vol. 2 for History 1152. The year 1877 is the cut- off date for History 1151. For History 1681 and 1682 the recommended text is Richard Buillet, et al., The Earth and Its Peoples, Vol. 1 for History 1681 and Vol. 2 for History 1682. The cut- off date for History 1681 is 1500. The texts are available at all campus bookstores.
2. As you read through the material, concentrate on major themes such as economic, political, military, social, and intellectual development. Do not get bogged down in details. You will simply get confused if you try to memorize every date and event. Do not go to the opposite extreme, however, and emerge from your readings with a few hazy generalizations in mind. Like any other analytical discipline, history requires facts to bolster findings and conclusions.
3. In addition, you should consider borrowing class notes from someone who has taken or is currently taking the course for which you will be taking the EM examination. This should give you further aid in focusing your study.
4. When taking the exam, first be sure that you understand the instructions. When writing an essay on a particular topic, be sure to focus on that topic throughout the answer. Often students answer a question by citing a mass of historical data that is unrelated to the question asked. This often leaves the faculty member grading the examination no other choice than to recommend no credit for the exam. Be as analytical as possible in your response. The reiteration of a mass of historical data will get you only a 'C' grade and you need at least a 'B-' in order to receive EM credit in history.
5. Finally, your answers should demonstrate competence in English composition. Good history is good writing. If you feel that your command of written English leaves something to be desired, consult Strunk and White's Elements of Style, a concise resource that contains invaluable information on English composition. The book is readily available at the OSU libraries and at all campus bookstores.

This list of suggestions by no means exhausts the possible strategies to prepare for the examination. No doubt, you will have other ideas on what to do to prepare yourself. Once you are prepared, contact the Testing Center and schedule an examination date. The telephone number is 614-292-2241 and the address is 281 W. Lane Avenue in the Student Services Building, Room 585. The Testing Center will inform you of the examination results. Please Note: Examinations for credit may be taken only one time per course.

The following is a listing of the permanent faculty, by area of interest, with indication of educational background, research and teaching interests, and major publication of written work.

AFRICAN HISTORY

James E. Genova, Professor, OSU Marion. Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Research and teaching interests include African, European and Cultural history. Publications include Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956.

Ousman Kobo, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research and teaching interests include 20^th century West African history. Dissertation: “Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Evil: A Comparative Historical Study of the Ahl-as-Sunna Islamic Reform Movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1950-2000.”

Thomas McDow, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include African, transnational Islamic, and Indian Ocean history. Dissertation: “Arabs and Africans: Commerce and Kinship from Oman to the East African Interior, 1820-1890.”

Ahmad Sikainga, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Research and teaching interests include Sudanese history and the history of slavery. Publications include The Western Bahr al- Ghazal under British Rule, 1898-1956.

Sarah Van Beurden, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Department of African American and African Studies. Research and teaching interests include African and transnational cultural history. Publications include Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture.

AMERICAN HISTORY

Joan Cashin, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include nineteenth- century American history. Publications include The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War.

DeAnza Cook, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include African American history. Dissertation: Soul Patrols: Race, Representation, and the Limits of Police Reform in America.

Bart Elmore, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research and teaching interests include environmental history, preservation and conservation. Publications include Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism.

Ryan Fontanilla, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include African American history, Caribbean history, and environmental history. Dissertation: Waters of Liberation: An Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century Jamaica.

Maria Hammack, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research and teaching interests include African American history and Latin American history. Publications include Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters in the Age of Abolition.

Clayton Howard, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research and teaching interests include urban history, sexuality and politics in postwar America. Dissertation: The Closet and the Cul de Sac: Sex, Politics, and Suburbanization in Postwar California.”

Hassan Jeffries, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Duke University. Research and teaching interests include the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Publications include Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt.

Margaret Newell, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research and teaching interests include American colonial history. Publications include from Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England.

Daniel Rivers, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Research and teaching interests include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender history, U.S. social movements and Native American history. Publications include Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and their Children in the US since World War II.

Randolph Roth, College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include nationalist and pre-Civil War America, environmental and criminal justice history. Publications include The Democratic Dilemma: Religion, Reform and the Social Order in the Connecticut River Valley of Vermont, 1791-1850.

David L. Stebenne, Professor. J.D., Ph.D., Columbia University. Research and teaching interests include U.S. history since 1930, and especially political and legal history.” Publications include Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years.”

David Steigerwald, Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester. Research and teaching interests include U.S. intellectual and cultural history and recent U.S. history. Publications include The Sixties and the End of Modern America.

Margaret Sumner, Associate Professor, OSU Marion. Ph.D. Rutgers University. Research and teaching interests include early American history and women’s history. Her publications include Collegiate Republic: Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America.

DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY HISTORY

Bruno Cabanes, Professor and Donald G. & Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History. Ph.D., Université Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne. Research and teaching interests include the French and European experiences in WWI and its aftermath. Publications include La victoire endeuillée, La sortie de guerre des soldats français (1918-1920) in Mourning: French Soldiers and the Postwar Transition, 1918-1920.

Mark Grimsley, Associate Professor. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include 19th century American military history. Publications include The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians 1861-1865.

Peter L. Hahn, Professor. Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Research and teaching interests include American diplomatic history. Publications include The U.S., Great Britain, and Egypt 1945-1956: Strategy & Diplomacy in the Early Cold War.

Mitchell Lerner, Professor. Ph.D., University of Texas. Research and teaching interests include modern American diplomatic and political history. Publications include The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.

Peter Mansoor, Professor and Raymond E. Mason, Jr., Chair of Military History. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include military history and national security and policies studies. Publications include The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945.

Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies. Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research and teaching interests include isolationism, internationalism, and globalization, as well as the role of ideas and ideologies in U.S. foreign relations. Publications include Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories.

R. Joseph Parrott, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research and teaching interests include the intersections of decolonization and the Cold War, the effects of transnational activism on Western domestic politics, and Pan-Africanism. Publications include “’A Luta Continua’: Radical Filmmaking, Pan-African Liberation, and Communal Empowerment.” Race & Class 57:1 (July- September, 2015): 20-38.

Lydia Walker, Assistant Professor and Myers Chair in Global Military History. Ph.D., Harvard University. Teaching and research interests include the international history of South Asia, Southern Africa, military intervention, and insurgent resistance. Publications include States-in-Waiting: Global Decolonization and its Discontents.

EAST ASIAN HISTORY

Christopher A. Reed, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Research and teaching interests include Qing, Republican, and People’s Republic periods (mid-18^th to late 20^th centuries). Publications include Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Kent Curtis, Associate Professor, OSU Mansfield. Ph.D., University of Kansas, Research and teaching interests include environmental history and the history of technology. Publications include Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860-1910.

Bart Elmore, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Virginia. Research and teaching interests include environmental history, preservation and conservation. Publications include Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism.

Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor and Director of the Goldberg Center. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Research and teaching interests include Russian/Eurasian, European, and environmental history. He is editor of Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Russian & Soviet History (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press,) & co-editor (with John Brooke & Chris Otter) of a special issue of the Journal of World History, “Health, Disease, & Environment in Global History,” vol. 24, issue 4 (December 2013). 

Marian Moser Jones, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Publications include The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal (Johns Hopkins, 2013), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles that place maternal and child health, homelessness, and other topics in historical, ethical, and social context.

Christopher Otter, Professor. Ph.D., University of Manchester. Research and teaching interests include British history, urban history, environmental history and the history of science and technology. Publications include “Liberty and Ecology: Resources, Markets, and the British Contribution to the Global Environmental Crisis,” in S. Gunn & J. Vernon (ed.) The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain.

Geoffrey Parker, Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor. Ph.D. and Litt D., Cambridge University. Research and teaching interests include early modern Europe, European expansion, and military history. Geoffrey Parker has been working on aspects of the “seventeenth century crisis” throughout his career; his new book Global Crisis: War, Climatic Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century” was published by Yale University Press in 2013.

Randolph Roth, College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include nationalist and pre-Civil War America, environmental and criminal justice history. Publications include “Biology and the Deep History of Homicide,” British Journal of Criminology and “Scientific History and Experimental History,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History and American Homicide.

EUROPEAN HISTORY

Greg Anderson, Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include ancient Greek history. Publications include The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 B.C.

Elizabeth Bond, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Research and teaching interests include the cultural history of the Enlightenment, social history, and the history of media. Dissertation: “Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-Century France: An Enlightenment Information Network, 1770-1791.”

David Brakke, Professor and Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include late antiquity, ancient Christianity, Coptic and Syriac studies. Publications include The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual and Diversity in Early Christianity.

Sara Butler, Professor, King George III Chair in British History, and Director of the Center for Historical Research. Ph.D., Dalhousie University. Research and teaching interests include social law and women’s history in the Middle Ages. Publications include Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England, Divorce in Medieval England; From One to Two Persons in Law, and The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England.

Alice Conklin, Vice Chair and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University. Research and teaching interests include France and its empire, comparative imperialism, and modern Europe. Publications include A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. 

J. Albert Harrill, Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Research and Teaching interests include early Christianity, Greco-Roman world, and the New Testament. Most recent monograph is Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context.

Tryntje Helfferich, Associate Professor, OSU Lima. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Research and teaching interests include early modern Europe, Tudor-Stuart Britain, Medieval Islam, and Medieval Europe. Publications include A Documentary History of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).

Stephen Kern, Humanities Distinguished Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University. Research and teaching interests include modern European cultural and social history. Publications include The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.

Christopher Otter, Professor. Ph.D., University of Manchester. Research and teaching interests include British history, urban history, environmental history and the history of science and technology.

Publications include The Government of the Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800- 1910.

Geoffrey Parker, Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor. Ph.D. and Litt D., Cambridge University. Research and teaching interests include early modern Europe, European expansion, and military history. Publications include The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800.

Kristina Sessa, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Research and teaching interests include Ancient and Medieval history. Dissertation: “The Household and the Bishop: Establishing Episcopal Authority in Late Antique Rome.”

David J. Staley, Associate Professor and Public History Director. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Director, The Goldberg Center, Department of History. Research and teaching interests include Historical Methods and New Media. Publications include History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future.

Heather J. Tanner, Associate Professor, OSU Mansfield. Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara. Research and teaching interests include Medieval Europe; Medieval Flanders, Boulogne, the Anglo- Norman realm; and Tudor-Stuart England. Publications include Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c. 879-1160.

JEWISH HISTORY

Matt Goldish, Professor, Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research and teaching interests include medieval and modern Jewish history. Publications include, Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton.

Robin E. Judd, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research and teaching interests include modern and medieval Jewish history, German history and gender history. Publications include Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933.

Ori Yehudai, Associate Professor and Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Research and teaching interests include the history of Zionism and Modern Israel, with special emphasis on migration and displacement, early Israeli statehood, transnationalism and the role of Zionism and Israel in the post-Holocaust reconstruction of the Jewish world. Dissertation: “Forth from Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel, 1945-1960.”
 

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

Stanley E. Blake, Associate Professor, OSU Lima. Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Research and teaching interests include Latin American history, especially the History of Brazil.

Publications include The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil.

Jessica Delgado, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley. Research and teaching interests include colonial Latin American and Mexican history; religion in Latin America; women, gender and sexuality studies; race, religion and spiritual status; and early modern Catholicism. Publications include: Laywomen and the Making of Colonial Catholicism in New Spain, 1630-1780.

Alcira Dueñas, Associate Professor, OSU Newark. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include Latin American history, Andean history, Indigenous history and colonial literary history. Publications include Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City’: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru.

Jennifer Eaglin, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Michigan State University. Research and teaching interests include international economics and alternative energy development in the 20^th century. Dissertation is entitled Sweet Fuel: Ethanol’s Socio-Political Origins in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 1933-1985.

Ryan Fontanilla, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Research and teaching interests include African American history, Caribbean history, and environmental history. Dissertation: Waters of Liberation: An Environmental History of Nineteenth-Century Jamaica.

Maria Hammack, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Research and teaching interests include African American history and Latin American history. Dissertation: Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters in the Age of Abolition.

Stephanie J. Smith, Professor. Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook. Research and teaching interests include Latin American history. Publications include Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatan Women and the Realities of Patriarchy.

MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN AND INDIAN OCEAN HISTORY

Yiğit Akin, Associate Professor and Carter V. Findley Professor of Ottoman and Turkish History. Ph.D., The Ohio State University. Research and teaching interests include social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. Publications include When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire.

Scott Levi, Professor and Chair. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research and teaching interests include Central and South Asian history and world history. Publications include The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900.

Thomas McDow, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Research and teaching interests include African, transnational Islamic, and Indian Ocean history. Dissertation: “Arabs and Africans: Commerce and Kinship from Oman to the East African Interior, 1820-1890.”

Amanda Respess, Assistant Professor, OSU Marion. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Research and teaching interests include premodern trade networks in the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, and the Java Sea. Publications include “Herbs and Artifacts: Trade in Traditional Chinese Medicine,” in China: Visions Through the Ages.