Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education

News

Dr. Shingi Mavima, assistant professor of history, has published his second novella, "The Leak." The book was published by Carnelian Heart Publishing Ltd. Synopsis: Kuda, a young man from urban Zimbabwe in pursuit of greener pastures, embarks on a surreal path where he is confronted with familial conflict, disease, dashed hopes, love and camaraderie in the strangest of places, and death. Watch Dr. Mavima's interview on WTOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4H3oP2oLo.

Dr. Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, professor and chair, published a book chapter entitled, “Women and the American Revolution,” in the Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, Volume 1 published by Cambridge University Press (2023).

Student Success

David Lacy, doctoral candidate in U.S. history, was awarded a 2024-2025 short-term Mellon Fellowship at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond,  to conduct research for his dissertation on Black legal culture in slavery in Antebellum Virginia.

Loryn Clauson, doctoral candidate in U.S. history, conducted research as part of two different fellowships at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Historical Society as part of her dissertation project on women, finance, and the household in antebellum America. (Spring 2024)

The History Community Board Eastern Michigan University awarded doctoral student in African history, Tab Keller, the 2024 Young Alumni Award based on her accomplishments as a student in our doctoral program at UToledo and her success as a lecturer at Olivet University. (April 2024)

Outstanding undergraduate history majors Jenna Pittman and Katie Blandford were admitted to the history doctoral programs at Duke University and Indiana University, respectively, with funding packages for fall 2024.

Events

Philip Markowicz Annual Lecture in Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies

March 30, 2026

New Approaches to Holocaust Education

Dr. Barry Jackisch
Associate professor of history and the Philip Markowicz Endowed Professor in Judaism and Jewish Biblical Studies

Dr. Jackisch presented material from his most recent efforts to extend Holocaust education to the online/remote classroom at UToledo. Dr. Jackisch recently received a grant from the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Educational Commission to develop a fully online, CEU (continuing education credits) program in Holocaust education for middle- and high-school teachers. Dr. Jackisch discussed these efforts and offered some examples from this online program. 
This lecture was recorded and is available online. Link: https://youtube.com/live/G-SbMwir_T0?feature=share

UToledo History Department Colloquium

March 20, 2026

The department presented its annual Research Colloquium for graduate and undergraduate students featuring 21 different student research papers from seven different regional universities including Baldwin Wallace, BGSU, Indiana Wesleyan University, Central Michigan, Kenyon College, Wright State, Taylor University, and our own University of Toledo History students.

The presentations covered a wide range of topics including Palestinian textile traditions, environmental history in modern Pakistan, Pan-Africanism in Southern Africa, maritime and military history, sports history, women's property ownership in early America,  Black legal culture in the US,  the Holocaust and 20th century European history, medieval witchcraft, and the history of marriage in Qing China.