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Kurilla quoted in The New York Times
Ivan Kurilla, Mershon Visiting Scholar, was recently quoted by The New York Times in an article featuring a small Russian town that sent the majority of its residents to war. "The state does not want…
Murphy witnessed the dignified return of Father Torres
Teri Murphy, Mershon Center Associate Director, and Derek Congram, Mershon Center Research Associate, witnessed the dignified return of Father Torres in Bogotá, Colombia on February 15, 2026…
Issifu and Woodworth publish in Resources Policy
Seiba Issifu and Max Woodworth published the article “Formalization from above, resistance from below: Voices of struggle and survival in Ghana’s contested artisanal and small-scale mining sector” in…
Nichols and Givens on H-Diplo
Mershon Hayes Chair Christopher McKnight Nichols and Cameron Givens, former Mershon affiliate now at Southern Methodist University, published a review on H-Diplo of State of Silence: The Espionage…
Joel Wainwright publishes "The End"
Joel Wainwright recently published "The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis", which examines how Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read…
Erin Moore explores NGO governance and women’s and girls’ rights initiatives in Uganda
Erin Moore, the Dr. Carl F. Asseff Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the History of Medicine in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist…
Nichols on American History Hit Podcast
Christopher McKnight Nichols discusses the Monroe Doctrine, a two-hundred-year-old presidential speech still shaping the role of the US in the world, on American History Hits, a top 25 history…
Mehr Mumtaz in The Conversation
Mehr Mumtaz published an article on Afghan Refugees in Pakistan in The Conversation that centers the experiences she had during her fieldwork in Pakistan, which was supported by a grant from the…
Scholars gather for Northwest Ordinance conference
A fully booked conference – with a wait list – is a great way to kick off celebrations in Ohio for the United States’ semiquincentennial, or America 250. At “New Perspectives on the Northwest…