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Mershoners reflect on Iraq 20 years later
"The long-term fallout of the Iraq War suggests that the promotion of peace and stability cannot be reduced to discrete military objectives, nor can the United States impose its own economic values…
Marmon pens memorial of "The vanguard of Black American transnationalism in Zimbabwe"
Tommie Sankange was the first black American public figure permanently residing in Zimbabwe who was not a missionary. Why don’t we know more about her? Mershon Post Doctoral Scholar Brooks Marmon…
Newell receives $492,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation
Margaret Newell, a distinguished professor in The Ohio State University Department of History, was “delighted” to learn she would be receiving $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation. “Historians…
Sooyeon Kang published in Journal of Peace Research
One of the unresolved puzzles in the civil resistance and contentious politics literatures is why some movements that begin seeking limited redress in a certain policy space escalate their claims to…
Mershon Explores the Legacy of Empire in Zimbabwe
February 10 marked the first of a series of anticipated Mershon events on African affairs. Chase Barney (University of Arkansas) and Lawrence Mukusha (Kent State University) shared their perspectives…
Furniss Book Award for 2021 goes to The Long Game by Rush Doshi
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University is delighted to announce that the latest recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award is Rush Doshi, for his book…
Made By History: Brooks Marmon Offers Comparative Perspective on DeSantis’ Educational Shakeup
"While there is a difference in degree, curbing the discussion of the United States' history of racism, segregation and slavery puts American conservatives in the same camp as Smith's Rhodesia,"…