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Chris Nichols looking at a book in a library

Christopher McKnight Nichols talked to ABC about the midterm election results. "This may be the biggest shift in American midterm politics since 1946," said Chris Nichols, an Ohio State historian…

Chris Nichols with a flag in the background

Below is a story reprinted from OSURA News.

At 8 a.m. Wednesday, September 23 the OSURA 29th Annual Fall Conference opened. With the theme HONORING THE PAST, ENGAGING THE FUTURE the…

J. Craig Jenkins

The Mershon Center for International Security Studies was saddened by the recent death of one of our former affiliates, researchers, and directors. Born July 13, 1948, J. Craig Jenkins died…

Amy Acton

Christopher McKnight Nichols published a guest opinion piece in The Columbus Dispatch: "As these terms once used to induce panic become more of a boogeyman, these…

Amazon AWS Cosgray Data Center Complex in Hilliard, Ohio.

Madhumita Dutta and Larkin Cleland published an article in The American Prospect about the data center boom, new land market, and other issues in the Silicon Heartland.

Fiona Cunningham and Mitch Lerner

Thank you to everyone who helped us welcome our 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Winner Fiona Cunningham, whose book Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security…

Mural of rivers and people in India

Read how Madhumita Dutta and her team transformed research into art in The Lantern.

Middle age man in blue suit with fists raised yelling into TV microphones

Laura Dugan and Jack Wipple talked to PsyPost about their research on political rhetoric and extremist activity. At the national level, the researchers found a positive association between the…

Black and white yard signs to ban data centers

Christopher McKnight Nichols talked to the New York Times about midterm elections and data centers in Ohio.

American flag and a button with vote written on it

Christopher McKnight Nichols appeared on NBC4 to discuss surprising levels of increased in-person voter turnout, and the current release of new attack ads in Ohio.

Chris Nichols

Christopher McKnight Nichols talked to Oregon Public Broadcasting about a historian’s perspective on where we are as a nation.

Derek Congram with equipment in the field
By Derek Congram

From August 3-7, researchers from Colombia’s Unidad de Busqueda para Personas dadas por Desaparecidas (the Missing Persons Search Unit, or UBPD), The Ohio State University, and Principal…

Jazmin Borrayo, Derek Congram, Nick Passalacqua

Search Lab team members Derek Congram and Nick Passalacqua participated in a panel on forensic ethics and Jazmin Borrayo presented a poster at the Humanitarian Forensics conference.

Speaking Freely with Annette Newell Podcast

Christopher McKnight Nichols appeared on the Speaking Freely With Annette Newell Podcast to talk about elections, midterms, mail voting and more.

Ryo Sawayama

Ryo Sawayama published an article, which examines how the United States and Japan can strengthen economic resilience against Chinese coercion by developing interoperable mechanisms that help…

US tanker in the water and a American flag

Christopher McKnight Nichols and Kaveri Sarkar published an article in The Conversation about US strategic ‘credibility’ – from Vietnam to Iran.

Group of people inside a room with wooden beams
By Teri Murphy

There was something unsettling about gathering peacebuilders in Northern Ireland to ask what peace means today - and watching the past return almost literally to the doorstep.

We were…

Peace N Ireland, Colombia, Basque

As a result in part of Mershon support, Governing reconciliation: Metagovernance, alignment, and sustainable peace in Northern Ireland was published in Peace and Sustainability …