Mark Nevin
Education
- Ph.D. in History, University of Virginia
- M.A. in History, University of Virginia
- M.A. in Liberal Arts, St. John’s College
Research Interests
- Civil Rights
- The 1960s
- The Modern Presidency
Courses Taught
- HIST 2000 & 2001, U.S. Surveys
- HIST 3004, American Revolution
- HIST 3030, America in World War Two
- HIST 3050, America in the Vietnam War
- HIST 3081, American Civil War
- HIST 3111J, Historical Research Writing
- HIST 3150, African American History
- HIST 3220, America in the 1960s
Biography
Mark Nevin is an Associate Professor of History at the Ohio University Lancaster campus, where he teaches a variety of courses in American history and was named the 2014 Professor of the Year for his teaching.
He recently completed an article on a “read-in” at a Jackson, Mississippi, library in 1961, which will be published by the Journal of Mississippi History. He is working on another article that considers the Kennedy administration’s efforts to encourage southern businessmen to voluntary desegregate restaurants and other public accommodations in 1963. He has also been awarded a grant to develop an oral history project on the 1970 Student Strike at Ohio University Athens.
He has published on Barry Goldwater and the response of congressional Republicans to Watergate and most recently on a civil rights demonstration at a Jackson, Mississippi, library in 1961. He is currently working on a manuscript about restaurant owner Harry Akin and his desegregation campaign in Austin, Texas. With the help of a grant from the Central Region Humanities Center, he is also working on a long-term research project on student protest on the Ohio University Athens campus in the 1960s.
He lives in Pickerington, Ohio, with his wife, Judy Carey Nevin, the Manager of the Library at the Lancaster campus, and their daughter, Sarah.