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In September 2025, faculty member Dr. Richard Steigmann-Gall sat down with our most recent addition to the department’s faculty, Dr. Nick Ostrum, to ask him about his career path and how he became an historian. Dr. Ostrum is a specialist in German History after WWII. He obtained his PhD at the University of Stony Brook in 2017. The interview has been edited for clarity and content. Richard Steigmann-Gall (RSG): So Nick, what brought you to German History?Nick Ostrum (NO): I took a roundabout path to it. Originally, I was doing classics at Sarah Lawrence College. Then in my senior year of ...

On Saturday, 12 April 2025, the Department of History hosted the first North East Ohio Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary, since COVID.  Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, the conference provided an opportunity for almost two dozen undergraduate history students from around the region to present their work in a professional setting.  Four of the department’s graduate students served as chairs/discussants for panels, and a fifth panel was chaired by one of the department’s MA/PhD graduates.  The student lead...