Fall 2023 Course Offerings
02 Friday Jun 2023
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BGSU Welcomes Social Studies Teachers for Workshop on the History of Disease, Health, and Medicine
18 Saturday Feb 2023
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By Becky Brown
Last Saturday, social studies teachers from Northwest Ohio traveled to BGSU for a professional development workshop: “Histories of Disease, Health, and Medicine.” Through speakers and discussion groups, teachers both broadened their knowledge of medical history and explored challenges and opportunities for applying this knowledge in the classroom.
Continue readingUndergraduate and Graduate Course Offerings, Spring 2023
01 Sunday Jan 2023
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Studying History during the Covid-19 Pandemic
02 Saturday May 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic and accompanying shutdown of schools, colleges and universities required a rapid transition of face-to-face courses to online offerings. History faculty adapted quickly and well, changing syllabi, assignments, and course activities. Here are some images of how History faculty and students adapted to unprecedented circumstances.
Continue readingFaykosh Presents at Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference
25 Thursday Jun 2015
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Joe Faykosh, doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Policy History at BGSU, presented at the Alcohol and Drugs History Society conference, titled “Borders, Boundaries, and Contexts: Defining Spaces in the History of Alcohol and Drugs,” held at BGSU from June 18-21. Faykosh presented “A Place in the Party: Wets, Drys, and the Klan at the 1924 Democratic Convention,” part of his dissertation research, on a panel titled “Perspectives on US Prohibition” that also included Dr. Michael Brooks’ “‘Ham-Strung, Shackled, and Tied’: the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition Enforcement in Wood County, Ohio.”
Among other BGSU faculty participating in the conference were: Dr. Scott Martin, Dr. Amilcar Challu, Dr. Apollos Nwauwa, Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Dr. Walt Grunden, Dr. Don Rowney, and Dr. Shirley Green, who chaired panels and served as commenters.
Faykosh Presenting “A Place in the Party” at the ADHS Conference
BGSU History Department well represented at Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference (this weekend!)
17 Wednesday Jun 2015
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The Department of History at Bowling Green State University will be well-represented when the Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference meets this weekend (Thursday, June 18-Sunday, June 21) at Bowling Green State University’s Bowen-Thompson Student Union (BTSU). The conference includes panelists from all over the world, on a wide array of topics related to Alcohol and Drugs History.
Dr. Scott Martin, chair of the History Department at BGSU, serves as president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society and is the coordinator of the conference. In addition, he is leading a plenary session on Thursday from 7-9 pm in 201 BTSU on “The Heroin/Opioid Epidemic in Northwest Ohio.” He will also chair a panel on “Medical Responses to Substance Abuse” on Saturday from 4-5:30 in 318 BTSU.
Dr. Don Rowney, professor emeritus at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Alcohol Policy in Soviet Russia and Beyond” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 318 BTSU.
Dr. Amilcar Challu, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Drugs in North American Borderlands” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 315 BTSU.
Dr. Shirley Green, instructor at BGSU and Ph.D. alum, will chair a panel on “Crime and Law Enforcement in the History of Alcohol and Drugs” on Friday from 9-10:30 in 316 BTSU, with Dr. Matthew Daley, professor at Grand Valley State and Ph.D. alum of BGSU, presenting “Prohibition’s Hangover: Murder, Gangsters, and Gambling in Toledo, Ohio, 1920-1970.”
Dr. Apollos Nwauwa, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “International Drug Control: Colonialism and Its Aftermath” on Friday from 10:45-12:15 in 314 BTSU.
Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Gendered Spaces in Alcohol and Drugs History” on Saturday from 10:45-12:15 in 314 BTSU.
Dr. Walt Grunden, professor at BGSU, will chair a panel on “Defining Intoxicants and the Intoxicated” on Saturday from 10:45-12:15 in 316 BTSU.
Joe Faykosh, doctoral candidate at BGSU, will present a paper titled “A Place in the Party: Wets, Drys, and the Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention,” and Dr. Michael Brooks, professor at BGSU, will present a paper titled “‘Ham-Strung, Shackled, and Tied’: the Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition Enforcement in Wood County, Ohio” on a panel titled “Perspectives on US Prohibition” on Sunday from 9:30-10:45 in 318 BTSU.
For more on the Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference, visit the conference site. For the detailed conference program, please click here.
Martin and BGSU History Host Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference-June 18-21
12 Friday Jun 2015
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Bowling Green State University will host “Borders, Boundaries and Contexts: Defining Spaces in the History of Alcohol and Drugs,” the eighth annual Alcohol and Drugs History Society Conference from Thursday, June 18-Sunday, June 21 in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Dr. Scott Martin, chair of the Department of History, serves as president of the society and is chair of the conference program.
The conference will present the research of scholars from 16 states and 15 countries across North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Participants will seek to break down barriers in the historical study of drugs and alcohol, and encourage transnational approaches and methodologies that transcend the singular focus of alcohol or drugs. Topics include national Prohibition in the U.S.; drugs in North American borderlands; the evolution of concepts of addiction, alcohol and drugs policy in colonial contexts; and the national and international histories of regulating alcohol, coca, opium and psychedelic drugs.
The event is sponsored by: the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, BGSU Department of History, BGSU College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President at BGSU, and the BGSU Graduate College.
For more on the conference, including panel titles, participants, and other information, see the article in the BGSU NewsFeed or the conference website.
For more on Dr. Scott Martin’s research and teaching, visit his faculty page.
Martin edits new SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol
28 Wednesday Jan 2015
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Dr. Scott Martin has edited the new SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, published in January 2015. From the publisher’s website, “The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives examines the history of alcohol worldwide and goes beyond the historical lens to examine alcohol as a cultural and social phenomenon, used both for good and for ill. While these roots are traced back through nearly all human societies for the past thousands of years, many results are still present in today’s society. Some examples include Germany’s repute of being known as a “beer culture” and France’s as a “wine culture.” With alcohol having many purposes and significance, it has become a strong part of cultures around the world as usage ranges from religious purposes to a simple toast to a seal business deal.”
A copy of the encyclopedia has been purchased for the department and is on display in the case at 128 Williams Hall. For more on the encyclopedia, please visit the publisher’s website here.
For more on Dr. Scott Martin’s research and teaching, please visit his faculty page.
Martin Article Featured in Oxford Handbook of American Drama
30 Thursday Oct 2014
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Dr. Scott Martin, professor and chair of the Department of History at BGSU, had his invited article published in The Oxford Handbook of American Drama. This “ambitious collection of essays will cover American drama in its entirety-from its inception in colonial America, through its many incarnations in the nineteenth century, to its zenith in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.” Dr. Martin’s article for the book is titled “The Politics of Antebellum Melodrama.”
For more on this book, visit the publisher’s page.
For more on Dr. Martin’s teaching and scholarship, please visit his faculty page.
Oxford Handbook of American Drama
Graduate Program Welcomes New Students!
22 Friday Aug 2014
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The Graduate Program in Policy History at BGSU welcomed a new cohort of Masters students into the department!
Students were presented University-mandated sessions on issues like disabilities, counseling services, training for teaching and research asssitantships. History Graduate Students had sessions on Academic Requirements and Time Management, Ethics and Professionalism, What to Expect in Assistantships, and Graduate Faculty and Graduate Student Roundtables. Students received information from Dr. Michael Brooks, Graduate Coordinator for the Department of History, as well as a roundtable with Dr. Nicole Jackson, Dr. Benjamin Greene and Dr. Scott Martin, Chair of the Department of History. Dr. Ruth Herndon provided materials in her absence on professionalism as graduate students. Rachel Pawlowicz, a returning Masters student, served as Department Leader for the week, and coordinated each session.
New Masters students participating in GSO week were: Alexandra Schmidt, Travis Snyder, Anthony Pearson, Liz Adamo, Lanna Demers, Hannah Caton, Aaron Lewis, Joe Lueck, Verena Holler, Victoria Harwood, Ashley Stevens, and Brian Yeager.