College of Arts and Sciences

On WKSU, John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, weighed in on the origins—and correct spellings—of certain street names in Northeast Ohio. “I think the interesting thing about old names is not only to investigate which ones are right or wrong, but as we’ve been discussing—what...

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Recently on WKYC, Kenneth Ledford, associate professor of law and associate professor and chair of the Department of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the fraught history between Russia and Ukraine. Link to the segment How we got here: The history between Russia and Ukraine

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According to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the first Ukrainians arrived in the Cleveland area in the mid-1880s, settling mainly on the west side in the Tremont neighborhood area. Subsequent waves of immigrants arrived between World War I and World War II and consisted of former fighters for Ukrainian...

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History PhD candidate and Social Justice Institute Fellow Kimba Stahler has created "Visions of Democracy," a story-based, American history-themed podcast that explores grassroots activism and participatory democracy. Click here to find out more.

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Judith Cusack, a history major and president of Spartans for Special Olympics, was recently featured in the Spartan Showcase. Read more about Cusack here.

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Peter Shulman, an associate professor of History at Case Western, weighed in on the truthfulness of bridges being purposefully constructed to be too low to allow for buses carrying people of color to access to predominantly white areas. Read more here.

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a teacher of modern American history, as well as women's and gender history in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote a Washington Post article detailing the history of dress codes in schools, and wonders why masks aren't enforced the same way that clothes are. Read her...

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To encourage innovation and scholarship, CWRU's Social Justice Institute has established a Social Justice Fellowship Program that, through grants, funds faculty and student activities that advance social justice work, from humanistic inquiry to action research. Kimberly Stahler's dissertation research examines social justice activism in Cleveland from 1960 to 1975, and...

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