College of Arts and Sciences

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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Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History at the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of law, discussed on NPR whether lawns will survive in Los Angeles as the city faces the most severe water restrictions it has ever seen. Click here for full story

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Work by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, an assistant professor of American history and women’s and gender history at the College of Arts and Sciences, was cited in a Washington Post article on a controversial school dress code change.   Click here for full article

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Congratulations to Sara Gaines for winning the 2022 Inamori International Thesis Prize in Military Ethics. She will be traveling to Budapest, Hungary to present her paper, "Artificial Intelligence as Clinician: An Argument for Ethical use of Future Technology in a Medical Setting at the Euro-ISME (International Society for Military...

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Jonathan Sadowsky's book, The Empire of Depression, was recently reviewed in the New York Review of Books in the essay "A Mind in Pain" by Gregory Hays. In his review, Hays wrote: "As Sadowsky shows, depression still holds many mysteries. Indeed, virtually everything we know about it is open to...

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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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