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       History Faculty 

Dr. Alcira Dueñas

Dr. Harding Ganz

Brian Kennedy

 Dr. Mark Kwasny

Dr. Mitchell Lerner

Dr. Michael Mangus

Dr. Lucy Murphy

Dr. Richard Shiels

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Jim Weeks 

 

 

History Program News 

  • Gleb Tsipursky recently published a brief monograph, called Having Fun in the Thaw: Youth Initiative Clubs in the Post-Stalin Years. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). This brief monograph came out in the series entitled The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, #2201.  He also traveled to Glasgow and London, UK, and to Regensburg, Germany. In London, he did research in the UK National Archives. In Glasgow, he presented a paper, “Targeting Juvenile Delinquents: The Struggle of Soviet Youth Militias with Non-Conformist Youth in the 1950s,” at the European Social Science History Conference. In Regensburg, he presented “Worker Youth and Everyday Violence in the Late Soviet Union, 1953-1970” at the First Annual Conference of the International Joint Research Project“Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism." On another note, Dr. Tsipursky just ran a Cuban Missile Crisis war game for the students in his Soviet History class, and they did a great job of managing the crisis and saving the world (although Khrushchev did not survive the crisis).

 

 

  • Gleb Tsipursky recently presented ³Aesthetic Upbringing in the Soviet Union: 1957-1964² at the American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, Il, January 2012.

 

  • Gleb Tsipursky recently received the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant from the American Historical Association, for 2011-12.


  • Mitch Lerner published: "Conquering the Hearts of the People: Lyndon Johnson, C. Vann Woodward, and The Irony of Southern History," in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Winter 2011

 

  • Mitch Lerner published: "Climbing off the Back Burner: Lyndon Johnson's Soft Power Approach to Africa," in Diplomacy & Statecraft, December 2011 

 

  • Gleb Tsipursky recently presented ³Universities of Culture and Thaw-era Culturedness,² at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies national convention, Washington, DC, November 2011.

 

  • Mitch Lerner spoke to the Florida Humanities Council in September 2011, on "The Cold War Abroad."

 

 

  • Mitch Lerner spoke at the Kennedy Center for National Security, Brigham Young University, January 2011, on "Meet the New Boss: Same as the Old Boss: The United States and North Korea in the Cold War and Beyond."

 

 

  • Gleb Tsipursky recently published a book chapter, entitled ³Integration, Celebration, and Challenge: Youth and Soviet Elections, 1953-68,² in Ralph Jessen and Hedwig Richter eds., Voting for Hitler and Stalin: Elections under 20th Century Dictatorships (Frankfurt and Chicago: Campus
    and University of Chicago Press, 2011), 81-102.

 

  • History major Jennifer Seymour has won a paid internship at the Ohio Historical Society, to work on the National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio. (2011)

 

 

  • Mitch Lerner published: "History and Haggar Pants," in The OAH Magazine of History, October 2010

 

  • Mitch Lerner published: "Carrying All Precincts: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the Diplomacy of Travel," in Diplomatic History, April 2010 

 

  • Mitch Lerner published: "The Whole World Changed Completely and Forever," in Military HistoryMagazine, February 2010.

 

 

  • Lucy Murphy and Richard Shiels were awarded the Public History Award  from the Ohio Academy of History for the creation of the Newark Earthworks Center on the Newark Campus. The award will be presented at the OAH annual meeting at Wright State University on April 11-12, 2008.