Current News

Faculty and staff are invited to the College's 13th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 9, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Craig Zimpher (B.A./M.A. History) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Zimpher is vice president of government relations for Nationwide. RSVP College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit the COH Student Web page for more information.

John Burnham, History:  "New Perspectives on the Prohibition 'Experiment' of the 1920s" [1968] reprinted in Taking Sides:  Clashing Views in United States History, Madaras and SoRelle, eds., (Dubuque IA:  McGraw-Hill, 2007):  II, 201-209.

Geoffrey Parker, History, had reprinted in Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), three of his articles on military history: "The Military Revolution 1560-1660  a Myth?," Paul Hammer, ed., (Journal of Modern History, 1976):  1-20; "Mutiny and Discontent in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1572-1607" (Past & Present, 1973):  219-33; and "The Dreadnought Revolution of Tudor England" (The Mariner’s Mirror, 1996):  357-88.

Undergraduate Ivelina Konstantinova, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has received a Honorable Mention for a non-native speaker, Level II, in the American Council of Teachers of Russian National Essay Contest.

Undergraduate Kelsey Willingham, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has received the A.S. Pushkin Award for Academic Achievement.

Undergraduate Brandon Worthington, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, has received the A.S. Pushkin Award for Service.

Students Ann Ferrell and Andy Paluch, English, were the recipients of the best graduate and undergraduate papers presented at FSA Presents: A Symposium of Folklore Graduate and Undergraduate Research.

Undergraduate Adrian Young (advisee of Professor James Bartholomew), History, received the Sheldon G. Choen Undergraduate Scholarship in the History of Philosophy of Life Sciences from the College of Biological Sciences for his project "Paleoanthropology and Empire."

Jared Gardner and Christopher Highley, English, have received an ASC Research Grant for Exemplary Service that is designated to support the research of faculty who have contributed high levels of meritorious service to their department/center and college, or to the Arts and Sciences generally. Such faculty members may compete for ten (10) individual research grants of $2,000 each to support their research activities.

Kevin Boyle, History, was quoted in an article about how people in Detroit are reacting to the news that Toyota has surpassed General Motors as the world's largest automaker (New York Times, April 25).  He wrote a review of the non-fiction book Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin (Washington Post, April 8).

Saul Cornell, History, was quoted in an article about how voters in Virginia, the site of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, have long been against any regulations of guns (U.S. News & World Report, April 30).

Susan Hartmann, History, wrote a letter to the editor in which she argued that programs that force poor people to give up simple pleasures to save a little bit of money are not going to help them in a real financial emergency (New York Times, April 15).

Kenneth Andrien, History, has accepted a position as a member of the Comite Editorial of Prohal Monografico: Revista electronica del Programa de Historia de America Latina published by Instituto de Historia Argentina "Dr. Emilio Ravignani" and the Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.  The Executive Editor is an OSU History Ph.D. and new faculty fellow of the CHR, Ana Maria Presta.

Kevin Boyle, History, was a featured speaker at the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 1. The conference brings together the state's politicians, business people, and policy makers.  Attendees included both of Michigan's U.S. senators, the governor, the mayor of Detroit, the CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and the presidents of the United Automobile Workers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Nick Breyfogle, History, was an invited discussant at the conference "The Caucasus: New Agendas in Scholarship" at the Kennan Institute/Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., May 9-10.

John Brooke, History, presented "Energy, Climate, and the Malthusian Trap: Old World Societies, 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1450," to the Environmental Graduate Program Seminar, April 13 and two presentations at the Organizational Conference, Global History of Health Project, Ohio State University, May 26-28: "Organizing the Contextual Database:  Climate History," and "Organizing the Contextual Database:  Historical Sources."

Ousman Kobo, History, was a featured speaker at the First Summit of the United African Organization (a Midwestern consortium of various African organizations) held in Chicago on May 26.  The theme of the first Summit was "African Immigrants and Refugees."  He gave an hour-long talk on "China-African Economic Engagement in the 21st Century and its Implication for Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa."  At the end of the Summit, he was interviewed by Channel 19, one of the local TV stations.

Graduate student John Maass, History, presented "North Carolina and the Shaping of a Colonial Identity," at the Irish Conference of Historians, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 17-20.