Humanities

History Professor Nicholas Breyfogle is one of a team of transnational researchers about to embark on a challenging, far flung adventure.

Six top scholars in diverse fields—history, geography, environmental sciences, and economics— will push the boundaries of their disciplines, form a lasting collaborative network, and forge a new paradigm for understanding the work they undertake.

Koritha Mitchell, associate professor, English, has been asked to give the keynote address at a Women's History Month banquet on March 22 at Marietta College. Mitchell will discuss her award-winning book, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, which focuses on black-authored lynching drama written before 1930. The event concludes with a book-signing.

Galal Walker, professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), and Mari Noda, DEALL professor and chair, successfully competed for a new three-year U.S. Department of State grant providing more than $3.2 million per year to administer and implement the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in East Asia. Ohio State is the only university in the country to receive this award.

The system Galal Walker, professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, developed five years ago to provide more effective assessments of his students seeking employment or academic placement in China is about to “go public.”

The Advanced Language Performance Portfolio System (ALPPS) has been such an effective tool that Walker believed it could be turned into a commercial product with broader public appeal.

The Ohio Third Frontier program agreed and awarded $100,000 to the new Dublin-based ALPPS Ltd. Corporation Walker formed to facilitate the process.