College of Arts and Sciences

Gillian Weiss, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded by The National Endowment for the Humanities a year-long fellowship by  to work on her book project, The Money Launderer’s Daughter: A Tunisian Woman and a Slave Rumor in the Early Modern Mediterranean. This study uses a tale of religious conversion transmitted by seemingly powerless Muslim galley slaves to summon an unfamiliar maritime world and to reflect on the possibilities and limits of writing history using hearsay…

 

 

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David Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History Emeritus,  was featured in Newsday recently discussing the formation of modern-day New York City, the result of a massive merger 125 years ago, noting that the new metropolis meant colossal record-keeping headaches for the new city comptroller.

 

 

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Nihal Manjila has won the nationally-competitive Lynn W. Turner Prize for best paper by an undergraduate member of Phi Alpha Theta for his paper Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at the Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968. Manjila is a fourth-year biology and history major. Phi Alpha Theta is a century-old American honor...

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Observer staff writer Nihal Manjila shares his experiences as a student of history. He writes that while not every person needs to be a history major, everyone can benefit from taking a history course or doing some reading in their free time. It is crucial to be knowledgeable about...

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David Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History Emeritus at the College of Arts and Sciences, was referenced recently an article discussing nonprofit organizations as formal, self-governing, voluntary, private organizations that don’t distribute profits and provide a public benefit. The author notes that Hammack's definition covers a range of...

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John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, was featured on Ideastream Public Media discussing the pronunciation of “Cuyahoga River,” a river that’s drawn people to the region for centuries. “One person has traced it back to its Native American origins and claims that it's ‘Cuya-HO-guh,’ not ‘Cuya-HOG-uh,’” he said....

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John Grabowski, Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, provided his expertise to WEWS news on Cleveland history for a story featuring the city’s brick-paved streets, including Murray Hill Road and Hessler Road, both near campus. Click here for full story.

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Jonathan Sadowsky, the Department of History Chair and Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History in the Department of History, weighed in on a new study suggesting that depression has a social and political cause. “The finding that there is little or no association between serotonin levels and depression is...

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