Our superb department has produced professors, lawyers, diplomats and civil servants, successful businesspeople, schoolteachers, military officers, fiction writers, and other professionals engaged in a myriad of pursuits in their lives and around the globe. Winners of awards in teaching and scholarship, our faculty members bring proven records of excellence to their daily collaborations with undergraduate and graduate students, and together they explore interests that span space and time. Students learn to read, think, and write critically. They come to know that ours is a small world and a big world. They grasp that humanity has the capacity to create the magisterial works hanging in the Louvre as well as the horrors of Auschwitz, or the inspiring wonder of Angkor Wat as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Studying history propels our lives, whether for the purposes of entering an important and satisfying profession or for the more expansive incentive of revealing the human condition. That is our department’s job. Such is our responsibility.

Department of History
4th Floor, Bentley Annex
Athens, OH 45701-2979
Phone: (740) 593-4334
Fax: (740) 593-0259
E-mail: History.Department@ohiou.edu

 

Maxwell Participates in Renowned Stanford Event: Faculty member Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell was a featured participant in the annual Tanner Lectures at Stanford University in late January. An historian of Rome and the ancient West, Maxwell focused on philosophy and the non-philospher. In the ancient world, was philosophy as a way of life possible or meaningful to people other than the full-time philosophers? In other words, was happiness or well being achieved by thinking about the Forms only available to philosophers? See the full story.

History's HTC Program Returns: Potential and current students interested in a History major through OU's Honors Tutorial College should contact Dr. Miriam Shadis, the department's HTC adviser, for more information. The History HTC program is an exciting opportunity to work one-on-one with the department's distinguished faculty.

Undergraduate Journal CFP: The Ohio University Undergraduate Journal of History is accepting manuscripts for its second volume. Please consult the journal's web page. The OUJH boasts articles on an array of topics, time periods, and places.