September 2, 2021

A University of Cincinnati doctoral candidate in the History Department has been awarded the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship. A doubly sweet victory was earned on the same day that he received this award. Maurice Adkins completed the final stage in the Ph.D. process by successfully defending his dissertation titled “Leadership in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Race, Labor, Gender, and Politics of African American Higher Education in North Carolina, 1860-1931.”

August 12, 2021

Step back into UC’s history with the help of a new tour created by students. This Black History Walking Tour guides participants through numerous where one can learn more about prominent figures of Black History like Ralph Belsinger, Marian Spencer and The Quadres Society, as well as locations and events throughout history.      The self-guided tour titled, University of Cincinnati’s Black History Walking Tour, was created by a group of UC students as a way to inform others about important people, events, and locations of Black history around campus, covering with information from the 1800s to modern day.       It is available now through free app, PocketSights. Although the tour has a website, it is designed to be followed as a self-guided tour through mobile device and can be downloaded in the App Store or on Google Play.  

November 1, 2021

Witch trials didn't just happen in Salem. One took place in Bethel, Ohio, but the lore was drowned out until a historian uncovered it.

February 28, 2022

Anne Delano Steinert, visiting assistant professor of history in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 2022 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). Through the fellowship, Steinert—an urban historian and expert in American architectural history—will extend her research into Europe to further enrich the subject matter in courses she teaches here at UC. Her three-month itinerary will take her to key sites that she teaches about, among them Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Athens, Vienna and Bremen. “My expertise is in American cities,” Steinert says. “This fellowship will allow me to use key European sites and cities to tell a larger story about urban history, public interpretation, and change over time.” Using her scholarship in historic preservation and the built environment as a basis, Steinert will use the fellowship to explore how information about history and heritage is communicated in urban environment, and what strategies are used to tell the history of everyday buildings and people, according to the SAH.

May 12, 2022

At the University of Cincinnati’s College of Art and Sciences (A&S), students are often given the opportunity to complete in-depth research tailored to their individual interests. For two graduate students in the history department, this research included challenging the notion that the only research with impact is done by those in white lab coats. Maurice Adkins and Katherine Ranum have spent their graduate school years bringing to light stories of marginalized people, helping to fill gaps within U.S. historical studies. As a result, many institutions are taking notice of Adkins and Ranum, rewarding them with fellowships that allow them to continue their efforts to make historical research more inclusive. Adkins, a recent graduate from the history department’s doctorate program, spent seven years traveling between Cincinnati and North Carolina, scouring archives and hunting down public records to complete his dissertation, which explores Black leadership at historically Black col- leges and Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina from 1863-1931. This quickly became laborious, Adkins says, due to the underfunding that many HBCUs have faced historically, resulting in poorer record keeping than that of other universities.

September 19, 2022

PhD candidate Shepherd Aaron Ellis interviewed for a panel discussion on Cincinnati Edition. Ellis explained the British monarchy and the role of the royal family.

May 11, 2023

UC doctoral student Shepherd Ellis gives commentary on the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, which took place on May 6, 2023 at Westminster Abbey. Charles acceded to the throne on September 8, 2022, upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II

September 12, 2023

University of Cincinnati researcher Anne Delano Steinert and community partners have received a $74K grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to spearhead an initiative to help preserve the culture of the community of Avondale.

June 11, 2024

History majors thus gain the tools to examine and understand the world of the present by examining and learning about the world of the past, with each student designing a course of study tailored around those elements of the past that most fascinate them, whether a geographic region (e.g. Europe, Asia, the United States, Latin America), or a theme that crosses regional and temporal boundaries (e.g. religion and culture; race, ethnicity and inequality; law and society; globalization and transregional connections; technology, science and medicine. At UC, students can make the major customizable to their individual interests, allowing them to pull from a wide range of history classes to create a major that matches their specific area of focus. Students may focus on one of these five areas of thematic concentration within the major, or if none of these fit, students can pick a self-directed concentration comprised of courses of selected in consultation with a faculty mentor. With UC’s vast body of archives, rare books, and library filled with about 4.4 million volumes, making it the thirty-sixth largest academic library in the US, students have the materials to go into any direction of study.

June 12, 2024

In 2022, Disha Ray completed her Bachelor's in Honours History in India. With her sights set on a master's degree, Ray looked at options overseas to find a fit for her next stage of education at a high-level institute. That search led her to UC, where she found what she was looking for.