Daniel Amsterdam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4380
Email: amsterdam.4@osu.edu
Daniel Amsterdam is an historian of American politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Before joining the OSU faculty, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current book project is titled "Building a Civic Welfare State: Businessmen's Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America." It describes how elite businessmen attempted to implement a wide-ranging vision for American social policy in the decade after World War I and how their efforts helped trigger an unprecedented flurry of social spending in cities across the country. Professor Amsterdam teaches courses on the United States since 1877.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4380
Email: amsterdam.4@osu.edu
Daniel Amsterdam is an historian of American politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Before joining the OSU faculty, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current book project is titled "Building a Civic Welfare State: Businessmen's Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America." It describes how elite businessmen attempted to implement a wide-ranging vision for American social policy in the decade after World War I and how their efforts helped trigger an unprecedented flurry of social spending in cities across the country. Professor Amsterdam teaches courses on the United States since 1877.
Mollie Cavender, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4318
Email: cavender.13@osu.edu
Professor Cavender received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1997. She is a specialist in Russian history, with interests in 18th- and 19th-century Russian cultural, social and intellectual history. Most recently, she has published Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia (University of Delaware Press, 2007), and "'Kind Angel of the Soul and Heart': Domesticity and Family Correspondence among the Pre-Emancipation Russian Gentry" in The Russian Review (2002).
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4318
Email: cavender.13@osu.edu
Professor Cavender received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1997. She is a specialist in Russian history, with interests in 18th- and 19th-century Russian cultural, social and intellectual history. Most recently, she has published Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia (University of Delaware Press, 2007), and "'Kind Angel of the Soul and Heart': Domesticity and Family Correspondence among the Pre-Emancipation Russian Gentry" in The Russian Review (2002).
Adam Criblez, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4237
Email: criblez.10@osu.edu
Professor Criblez received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2008. He is a specialist in United States history focusing on 19th-century American culture. In particular, he studies how midwesterners utilized the Fourth of July holiday to construct ever-changing perceptions of patriotic loyalty and American nationalism. He has published articles in several regional journals and is working on his first book manuscript.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4237
Email: criblez.10@osu.edu
Professor Criblez received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2008. He is a specialist in United States history focusing on 19th-century American culture. In particular, he studies how midwesterners utilized the Fourth of July holiday to construct ever-changing perceptions of patriotic loyalty and American nationalism. He has published articles in several regional journals and is working on his first book manuscript.
Ted Dahlstrand, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4222
Email: dahlstrand.1@osu.edu
Professor Dahlstrand arrived at OSU Mansfield in the autumn of 1978 after having taught for a year at the Columbus campus. In 1982, he published a biography of the American Transcendentalist and reformer, Amos Bronson Alcott, and has subsequently published several articles on Alcott and New England Transcendentalism. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award at OSU Mansfield in 1980 and 1987, and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1983. In 1995 he was appointed as Associate Dean to supervise the development of the academic programs and the Mansfield Campus.
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4222
Email: dahlstrand.1@osu.edu
Professor Dahlstrand arrived at OSU Mansfield in the autumn of 1978 after having taught for a year at the Columbus campus. In 1982, he published a biography of the American Transcendentalist and reformer, Amos Bronson Alcott, and has subsequently published several articles on Alcott and New England Transcendentalism. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award at OSU Mansfield in 1980 and 1987, and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1983. In 1995 he was appointed as Associate Dean to supervise the development of the academic programs and the Mansfield Campus.
Thomas "Tom" Mulligan, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Phone: (419) 755-4378
Email: mulligan.11@osu.edu
Professor Mulligan's degrees include an M.A. in Management at The Ohio State University; M.S. International Relations, George Washington University; M. A. American History, The Ohio State University; Ph.D. American History, The Ohio State University. Professor Mulligan's major area is 19th Century American History and his minor areas are 20th Century American Diplomatic History and Latin American History. He teaches the following courses: American Civilization to 1877, American Civilization since 1877, Latin American Civilizations to 1825, Latin American Civilizations since 1825, History of Ohio, World War II, and Westward Movement in American History.
Lecturer
Phone: (419) 755-4378
Email: mulligan.11@osu.edu
Professor Mulligan's degrees include an M.A. in Management at The Ohio State University; M.S. International Relations, George Washington University; M. A. American History, The Ohio State University; Ph.D. American History, The Ohio State University. Professor Mulligan's major area is 19th Century American History and his minor areas are 20th Century American Diplomatic History and Latin American History. He teaches the following courses: American Civilization to 1877, American Civilization since 1877, Latin American Civilizations to 1825, Latin American Civilizations since 1825, History of Ohio, World War II, and Westward Movement in American History.
Scoppas Poggo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4202
Email: poggo.1@osu.edu
Professor Poggo is originally from the Kuku people of the Southern Sudan. He began his studies in the United States in 1990, after having been a student in the Sudan and in England. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He joined the faculty in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Ohio State Mansfield campus in the Fall of 1999. He has taught Introduction to African American and African Studies, as well as the sequences in African-American and African History sequences.
Professor Poggo's primary research focus is the first civil war in the Sudan, 1955-1972. He has also done research on the political and social history of the Kuku people of the Sudan. His publications include "The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972": New York: Palgrave Macmillan, February 2009."General Ibrahim Abboud's Military Administration in the Sudan, 1958-1964: Implementation of the Programs of Islamization and Arabization in the Southern Sudan," Northeast African Studies, 9, 1 (Michigan State University Press, 2007); "The Origins and Culture of Blacksmiths in Kuku Society of the Sudan, 1797-1955," Journal of African Cultural Studies (SOAS, University of London; Francis & Taylor, 2006):"The Politics of Liberation in the Southern Sudan: The Role of Israel, African Heads of State, and Foreign Mercenaries, 1967-1972," The Uganda Journal, 47 (The Uganda Society, 2002); "Kuku Religious Experiences in the Sudan and in Exile in Uganda, 1900-1972" in Gray, Richard Fadl, Hassan (eds.), Religion and Conflict in the Sudan (Nairobi: Africana Publishers, 2001): "Azande Reaction to Foreign Penetration, 1860-1890" in Spaulding, Jay and Beswick, Stephanie (eds.,The White Nile Black Blood: From Khartoum to Kampala (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press/Africa World Press, 2000).
Professor Poggo is the recipient of the Seed Grant from the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University in 2001. He also received the 2002 College of Humanities Diversity Enhancement award.
Assistant Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4202
Email: poggo.1@osu.edu
Professor Poggo is originally from the Kuku people of the Southern Sudan. He began his studies in the United States in 1990, after having been a student in the Sudan and in England. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He joined the faculty in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Ohio State Mansfield campus in the Fall of 1999. He has taught Introduction to African American and African Studies, as well as the sequences in African-American and African History sequences.
Professor Poggo's primary research focus is the first civil war in the Sudan, 1955-1972. He has also done research on the political and social history of the Kuku people of the Sudan. His publications include "The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972": New York: Palgrave Macmillan, February 2009."General Ibrahim Abboud's Military Administration in the Sudan, 1958-1964: Implementation of the Programs of Islamization and Arabization in the Southern Sudan," Northeast African Studies, 9, 1 (Michigan State University Press, 2007); "The Origins and Culture of Blacksmiths in Kuku Society of the Sudan, 1797-1955," Journal of African Cultural Studies (SOAS, University of London; Francis & Taylor, 2006):"The Politics of Liberation in the Southern Sudan: The Role of Israel, African Heads of State, and Foreign Mercenaries, 1967-1972," The Uganda Journal, 47 (The Uganda Society, 2002); "Kuku Religious Experiences in the Sudan and in Exile in Uganda, 1900-1972" in Gray, Richard Fadl, Hassan (eds.), Religion and Conflict in the Sudan (Nairobi: Africana Publishers, 2001): "Azande Reaction to Foreign Penetration, 1860-1890" in Spaulding, Jay and Beswick, Stephanie (eds.,The White Nile Black Blood: From Khartoum to Kampala (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press/Africa World Press, 2000).
Professor Poggo is the recipient of the Seed Grant from the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University in 2001. He also received the 2002 College of Humanities Diversity Enhancement award.
Heather Tanner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4368
Email: tanner.87@osu.edu
Heather J. Tanner specializes in the history of early and high medieval France, Belgium, and England and focuses on politics, governance, the public roles of women, as well as religious reform and the First Crusade. Her first book, Families, Friends and Allies. Boulogne and Politics in northern France and England, c. 879-c.1162 (2004), presents a new model of political development in a region devastated by the Viking invasions through an examination of the interrelationships among the counts of Boulogne and the neighboring counts of Picardy, Flanders, Normandy and England. The book is part of the larger debate on feudalism, the rise of government institutions, kinship and identity. She is currently working on a book concerning female inheritance and governance in late 12th - and early 13th-century Picardy and Flanders. She has won several prestigious fellowships including a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Faculty (2004), a National Endowment for the Humanities (1996- 1997), and an NSF Foundation Grant (2008) for her outreach work with the Algebra Project. Her most recent conference presentations were at the Haskins Society (2010), the Western Society of French Historians (2009); she will be presenting a paper at the Medieval Academy of America annual conference (March 2012). Professor Tanner taught at Bates College, the University of Oregon, and Lake Forest College, before joining OSU as an assistant professor in Fall 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2005.
Associate Professor
Phone: (419) 755-4368
Email: tanner.87@osu.edu
Heather J. Tanner specializes in the history of early and high medieval France, Belgium, and England and focuses on politics, governance, the public roles of women, as well as religious reform and the First Crusade. Her first book, Families, Friends and Allies. Boulogne and Politics in northern France and England, c. 879-c.1162 (2004), presents a new model of political development in a region devastated by the Viking invasions through an examination of the interrelationships among the counts of Boulogne and the neighboring counts of Picardy, Flanders, Normandy and England. The book is part of the larger debate on feudalism, the rise of government institutions, kinship and identity. She is currently working on a book concerning female inheritance and governance in late 12th - and early 13th-century Picardy and Flanders. She has won several prestigious fellowships including a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Faculty (2004), a National Endowment for the Humanities (1996- 1997), and an NSF Foundation Grant (2008) for her outreach work with the Algebra Project. Her most recent conference presentations were at the Haskins Society (2010), the Western Society of French Historians (2009); she will be presenting a paper at the Medieval Academy of America annual conference (March 2012). Professor Tanner taught at Bates College, the University of Oregon, and Lake Forest College, before joining OSU as an assistant professor in Fall 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2005.