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