Mark Nevin

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. 

His research focuses on the politics of the 1960s. 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 lives in Pickerington, Ohio, with his wife, Judy Carey Nevin, the Manager of the Library at the Lancaster campus, and their daughter, Sarah.