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Johanna Moyer, visiting assistant professor, Hamilton Campus
Ph.D. (1996) Syracuse University
moyerjb@muohio.edu
585 Mosler Hall, 513-785-3285
Early Modern Europe, World History
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Caryn Neumann, visiting assistant professor; Special Assistant to the Dean for Community Relations, Middletown Campus
Ph.D. (2006) Ohio State University
neumance@muohio.edu
219 Johnston Hall, Middletown Campus; 513-727-3497
Women's History, Public History, U.S. Political History
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Stephen
Norris, associate professor
Ph.D. (2002) University of Virginia
norriss1@muohio.edu
250 Upham Hall; 513-529-2615
Office hours: W 1-3
Russia Since 1800
Stephen Norris's work studies images and propaganda in Russia during the 19th and 20th centuries. His book, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945, appeared in 2006. He is a co-editor and contributor to Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (witih Zara Torlone) and Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (with Helena Goscilo). His recent articles have appeared in KinoKultura, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and Russian Review. His teaching interests include Russian cultural history and film history. He is presently working on a book about Post-Soviet film entitled Blockbuster History: Russian Cinema Confronts the Past and a book co-edited with Willard Sunderland entitled People of Empire: Lives of Culture and Power in Russian Eurasia, 1500-Present.
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Brigid O'Keeffe, Havighurst Fellow
Ph.D. (2008) New York University
okeeffb@muohio.edu
Room 243 Upham Hall; 513-529-5123
Office hours: W F 11-12
Imperial Russia and Soviet Union
Brigid O'Keeffe received her PhD in modern European history. Her dissertation, "Becoming Gypsy: Sovietizing the Self, 1917-1939," examined how Bolshevik nationality policy facilitated Roma's self-fashioning as conscious, integrated Soviet citizens. Her research and teaching interests include selfhood and narrativity; ethnicity, nation-building, and nationalism; citizenship and subjecthood; comparative empires; and the history of ethnography as a tool of imperial governance. In the fall of 2009, she will join CUNY-Brooklyn College as Assistant Professor of History. |
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Osaak
Olumwullah, associate professor
Ph.D. (1995) Rice University
olumwuoa@muohio.edu
Room 268 Upham Hall; 513-529-5139
Office hours: F 3-5
Africa, Environmental History, Medicine and
Society in Africa
Osaak Olumwullah has research and
teaching interests in the areas of science in
Africa, the historical intersections of the
biological and social sciences, and health,
healing, and the sociology of medical
knowledge in Africa. His book, Disease in the
Colonial State: Medicine, Society and Social
Change among the AbaNyole of Western
Kenya appeared in 2002.
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Kevin Osterloh, assistant professor
Ph.D. (2007) Princeton University
osterlkl@muohio.edu
Room 232 Upham Hall; 513-529-9740
Office hours: W 12-3
Ancient History, Jewish Studies, Classical Mediterranean
Kevin L. Osterloh specializes in ancient Judaica and the society and politics of the Greco-Roman world. His current research focuses on the reinvention of Jewish collective identity and ethnicity in the second-century BCE amidst a complex, triangulated conversation between Jews, Greeks and Romans. In addition to aspects of Hellenistic Judaism and the Greco-Roman period, Osterloh is also deeply interested in the study of Hellenistic historiography, and issues of rabbinic literature and society, in particular the invention by the rabbis of their own traditional collective authority, as found in Mishnah Tractates Avot and Yoma, and in the confluence of rabbinic folklore and dialectic in the Babylonian Talmud.
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Yihong
Pan, professor
Ph.D. (1990) University of British Columbia
pany@muohio.edu
Office hours: T R 2:30-3:30
Chinese Women, Feminism and Nationalism
in 20th Century China, Rustication Movement
in China, Tang Dynasty Foreign Policy
Yihong Pan's publications include Son
of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang
China and Its Neighbors (1997), Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace: China's Youth in the Rustication Movement (2003), and articles on Tang foreign policy, on rustication movement in Mao's China, and on Chinese women's history. Current projects include research for a monograph on Chinese women in the War of Resistance against Japan.
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Carla
G. Pestana, W.E. Smith Professor
Ph.D. (1987) UCLA
pestancg@muohio.edu
Room 271 Upham Hall; 513-529-5129
Office hours: M 10-12, W 1-2
17th and 18th Century Atlantic World; religion, empire
Carla
Pestana teaches courses about Early
American History, Tudor Stuart history and the early modern Atlantic World. She has just completed a project called Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Other books include The English Atlantic in an Era of Revolution, 1640-1661 (2004); Inequality in Early America, co-edited with Sharon V. Salinger (1999), and Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts (1991). Her current research focuses on early English Jamaica; she is also increasingly interested in comparative empires in the early modern era.
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Daniel G. Prior, Assistant Professor and Executive Director, Central Eurasian Studies Society; Ph.D. (2002) Indiana University
priordg@muohio.edu
Room 270 Upham Hall; 513-529-7148
Office hours: T R 2:30-3:30, W 10:30-11:30
Central Eurasia
Dan Prior's teaching and research focus on the history, cultures, and folklore of Central and Inner Asia, mainly of Turkic nomadic peoples. His current research project, for which he was awarded an NEH Fellowship, is a history of the northern Kirghiz chieftains (manaps) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz epic performance on phonograph (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006), and numerous articles and reviews. He taught previously at Ohio State University and Indiana University, and was head of the library of the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies at Indiana University. He has lived in China, Japan, and for three and a half years in Kirghizstan, before and after its independence from the Soviet Union.
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Larry Richards, visiting assistant professor
Ph.D. (2004) University of Virginia
richarl@muohio.edu
Johnston Hall, Middletown Campus; 513-727-3200
U.S. History, Labor History
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Rob
Schorman, associate professor
Ph.D. (1998) Indiana University
schormr@muohio.edu
Room 234 Johnston Hall, Middletown Campus; 513-727-3294
American Popular Culture
Rob Schorman is the Middletown campus's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. His book, Selling Style: Clothing and Social
Change at the Turn of the Century,
examines the intersection of gender roles, mass media, and
consumer culture. In addition to teaching, Dr. Schorman has
had considerable experience managing small- and medium-sized newspapers, and he is currently researching the history of advertising in the late 19th and early 20th centuries..
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Tatiana Seijas , assistant professor
Ph.D. (2008) Yale University
seijast@muohio.edu
Room 297A Upham Hall; 513-529-5141
Office hours: T R 3:30-4:45
Colonial Mexico, Early Modern Latin America
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