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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:
Russia Since 1800
Stephen Norris's work studies popular
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. In 2008, two volumes of essays he co-edited will appear with Indiana University Press: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (witih Zara Torlone) and Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (with Helena Goscilo). He has published articles in the journals Ab Imperio, National Identities, and The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. He also served as the project director for Houghton Mifflin's web-based western civilization project, entitled Mosaic: Perspectives on Western Civilization. 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.
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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:
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
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Ancient History, Jewish Studies
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Yihong
Pan, professor
Ph.D. (1990) University of British Columbia
pany@muohio.edu
Room 276 Upham Hall; 513-529-5138
On leave 2007-08 academic year
Chinese Women, Feminism and Nationalism
in 20th Century China, Rustication Movement
in China, Tang Dynasty Foreign Policy
Yihong Pan's recent publications include Son
of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan: Sui-Tang
China and Its Neighbors and articles on Tang
dynasty foreign policy and on women's
history in China. Current projects include a
book entitled Tempered in the Revolutionary
Furnace: China's Generation of Educated
Youth in the Rustication Movement (1950s to
1981) and research for a monograph on
Chinese women in the war of resistance
against Japan (1931-1945).
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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
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17th and 18th Century Atlantic World
Carla
Pestana teaches courses about Early
American History, Tudor Stuart history and the early modern Atlantic World. She currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the department. Her 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 newest book, expected out in 2008, is on "the Politics of Religion in the British Atlantic World, 1530-1800." She will soon undertake a project on the origins of English imperialism in the 17th century.
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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:
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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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's 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.
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