Ohio Humans

Hasan Kwame Jeffries was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, he graduated from Morehouse College with a BA in history and, in 2002, he earned his Ph. D. from Duke University. Dr. Jeffries’ academic background and award-winning research on the origins of the Black Power Movement in Alabama has allowed him to develop excellent insights on race and electoral participation in the United States. In th...

For this first episode of Covid Conversations, host Rachel Hopkin is joined by Omopé Carter-Daboiku and Alinah Azadeh . Carter-Daboiku is a storyteller who grew up rural southern Ohio. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of place, identity and belonging, and the experience of growing up a “mixed-race, colored child” of Nigerian heritage in the Appalachian landscape. To find out more about Ca...

In this episode, we discuss the 1872 presidential campaign of Victoria Woodhull and the challenges women have faced in becoming elected officials in the United States with Dr. Barbara Palmer. Dr. Palmer earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota. She is an expert on congressional elections and the position of women in el...

In this Episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses disputed elections with Christie Weininger and Dr. Dustin McLochlin. Christie is the Executive Director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and Dustin is a historian and curator at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. Together, they lend their expertise on arguably the most contested presidential election...

In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen. Our guest in this episode is Cara Owsley who is Director of Photography at the Cincinnati Enquirer and a national award-winning visual journalist, including as photojournalist and photo editor for the Enquirer’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning "Seven Days of Heroin" project. Cara is also on the board of the Visual Task Force with the Natio...

In this episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses American democracy and the Electoral College with Dr. La Trice Washington. Dr. Washington is an Associate Professor of American Government at Otterbein University and the author of Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification . Dr. Washington lends her expertise to help us understand why the founders created the Electora...

In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen. Our guests in this episode are Destiniee Jaram and Jack Boden. Both are undergraduate students in the journalism program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and they share their perspective on the profession for which they are preparing themselves. Here are some links to stories reported by today’s guests: https://www.athensnews.com/ne...

Perfecting Democracy—Why it Matters” explores the history of civic engagement in the United States. In this episode, we bring together award-winning broadcast journalist Ron Bryant, and Akron based journalist and author of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America , David Giffels. Together they discuss how Ohio’s unique past and regional identities have shaped electoral engagement across the state....

Our guest for this episode – in which our focus is racial equity in media reporting - is Mark Curnutte ( http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/sociology-gerontology/about/faculty-staff/mark-curnutte/index.html ).  Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio for the past several years where he teaches courses on journalism and social justice. He is also a mul...

This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is about Report for America . In it, we hear from some of the project’s 2020-2021 Ohio-based corps members who all began their new jobs during June of 2020. The guests interviewed are Seyma Bayram, who is reporting on minority and immigrant issues for The Akron Beacon Journal , H.L. Comeriato, who is focusing on Public Health also in Akro...

This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.  Our guest in this episode is Jen Miller who is the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Oh...

This episode’s guest is writer and reporter, Tim Feran, talks about the landscape of local newspapers in Ohio. You can find out more about Tim at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-feran-1b0944a/ and here are some links to his work: The Poynter article about Gannett, the Ithaca Journal , and ghost newsrooms mentioned in the interview can be found at https://www.poynter.org/locally/2020/at-gannetts-it...

This episode features Neenah Ellis and Luke Dennis of WYSO - https://www.wyso.org - which is the Greater Dayton area’s only NPR News station. Luke Dennis, who has a background in arts and music administration, is WYSO’s General Manager. Neenah Ellis, who was Luke’s predecessor in that role, is a multi-award-winning radio documentary maker of several decades standing. She is also the President of M...

This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.  In this episode, Dr Treva Lindsey discusses the role that women of color have played in the struggle for the...

Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.  The guests in this episo...

This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.  Our guest in this episode is historian Dr Kimberly Hamlin who talks about the history of the suffrage mov...

Today, the podcast’s guest is Patricia Gallagher Newberry - https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/mjf/about/faculty-staff/newberry-patricia/ - who is the current President of the Society of Professional Journalists - https://www.spj.org – and who runs the Journalism Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  In this episode – which was recorded in late March, 2020 - Gallagher Newber...

In this episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast revisits Kent State University 50 years on from the May 4th 1970 shootings by members of the National Guard of four unarmed students on the campus. The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses his play “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” which is based on the university’s oral history archive. I...

This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.    Susan Trollinger - professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Dayton, Ohio - is the...

This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.    This episode’s guest is Barbara Palmer - a professor of political science at Baldwin Wallace Un...

Join a conversation between Ohio Humanities Executive Director Pat Williamsen and Ohio University professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz as they discuss their new book Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio . With support from Ohio Humanities, Ohio University medical school professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz have launched a website that provides resources for facilitating com...

This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.   Stephanie Hinnershitz - professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Clevelan...

In this episode of Ohio Humanities’ Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast, Ohio author Mindy McGinnis talks about her latest YA novel Heroine (Harper Collins, 2019).   Mindy McGinnis is an Ohio-born-and-bred ninth generation farmer and an award-winning author of YA fiction. Mindy’s latest book, Heroine , has been described as “captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadlie...