Economic, Environmental & Technology History

History provides valuable lessons about the nature of technological change and resource expansion and allocation. Some OHIO historians think about these issues in pre-capitalist societies examining how land usage and trade shaped economic opportunities and the environment. Others examine how ideas, governments, and private actors accelerated wealth production and generated new demands on natural resources, societal change, and political tensions. More detailed information on below-listed faculty can be found on their faculty biography pages.

John Brobst

British Empire since 1783
Geopolitics and Grand Strategy
Naval and Intelligence History

Mariana Dantas

Early Modern Atlantic World
History of Slavery and the African Diaspora
Family History and Urban History

Alec Holcombe

Southeast Asia; Modern Period
Vietnam
Colonialism; Socialist Reconstruction

Katherine Jellison

United States; Modern Period
Women and Gender; Consumer Relations

Victoria Lee

Science and Technology; Modern Period
Japan
East Asia; Environment; Craft and Political Economy

Paul C. Milazzo

United States; Twentieth Century
Environment
Congress

Assan Sarr

Africa; Late Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries
The Senegal and Gambia River Basin
Agrarian Society; Islam; Oral History

Brian Schoen

Nineteenth Century United States; Early Republic and Civil War
United States and the World
Political Economy

Miriam Shadis

Europe; Medieval Period
Spain and Portugal
Women and Gender; Religion; Political Life