College of Arts and Sciences

Professor John Grabowski was recently featured in an article published on popularmechanics.com titled "Smoke on the Water: 50 Years After the Cuyahoga River Fire." Professor Grabowski, who serves as the Historian and Senior Vice President for Research and Publications at the Western Reserve Historical Society, as well as a...

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In an article recently published in Newsweek, Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies Jay Geller commented on the controversy surrounding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling the U.S. migrant detentions centers concentration camps. The article lays out the history of the term, and looks to several other academic experts for their professional...

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Professor Grabowski, Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University and Historian and Senior Vice President for Research and Publications at the Western Reserve Historical Society, was recently featured in Science History Institute's podcast "Distillations" in an episode titled "The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire." Professor...

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Professor Ted Steinberg was recently featured in an op ed article published on middletownpress.com, written by Robert Miller. Professor Steinberg, Davee Professor of History and professor of law at Case Western Reserve University and author of American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn, commented on the history...

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Professor Einav Rabinovitch-Fox was featured in an article published on medium.com about the recent controversy surrounding fashion designer Desi Allinger, who has designed dresses with overtly political messaging. Although Allinger says her political leanings should be compartmentalized from her commissioned work, Professor Rabinovitch-Fox offers her historical expertise to the...

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Professor Jonathan Sadowsky was recently featured in an article written by Alexia Underwood for Vox.com titled "My great-grandmother’s struggle with mental illness — and the therapy that saved her life." Professor Sadowsky offered his expertise on the history of medicine to contextualize the historical and contemporary use of Electroshock...

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Professor John Grabowski recently contributed to an article published on wsku.org about he potential redevelopment of the former site of the Harshaw Chemical plant. Professor Grabowski offered his expertise on the history of the Harshaw Chemical plant's affiliation with the Arsenal of Democracy. Read the full article here.  

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Professor Einav Rabinovitch-Fox recently contributed to an article published at usatoday.com titled "NASA's spacesuit issue is all too familiar for working women," written in the wake of NASA's announcement that it has to cancel plans for the first-ever all-women space walk due to a lack of spacesuits in the...

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Professor Jay Geller, Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History, was recently interviewed on Cornell University Press's podcast, "1869." Professor Geller spoke about his newest book, recently published by the Cornell University Press, "The Scholems," a biography of an respected middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a...

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Professor Ted Steinberg contributed to a recent article by Christopher Robbins for Gothamist.com to discuss New York City's history of expanding Manhattan into the East River. The article is in response to a planning document obtained by Gothamist that indicates the de Blasio administration is considering adding land to...

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