History, Political Science, Languages & Cultures Office Information
Department Chair: Deborah Solomon
Contact: Patti Welch, Academic Administrative Assistant
Phone: 614-823-1361
Email: pwelch@otterbein.edu
Faculty
Anthony DeStefanis
Associate Professor of History
Anthony DeStefanis specializes in modern U.S. history with an emphasis on labor and the working class and immigration, race, and ethnicity. His current research uses the Colorado National Guard and the 1913-14 southern Colorado coal strike to examine military strikebreaking. He charts the development of both Colorado’s mining industry and the Colorado National Guard to understand how the confluence of capital’s growing power, cultural politics, and the imperatives of state building created a state with a formidable National Guard that…
Nicholas Robinson
Assistant Professor
Nick Robinson’s research interests investigate the relationship between urban redevelopment policies and community resistance to the effects of gentrification in American cities. Specifically, he considers whether community benefits agreements can serve as instruments to effectively mediate between the expressed preferences of neighborhood residents and developers’ interests in long-term growth and profitability. Moreover, he utilizes insights from contemporary democratic political theory to explore the shortcomings of such agreements as well as find solutions that can improve their capacity to reflect a…
Deborah Solomon
Associate Professor & Department Chair
Deborah Solomon, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor of East Asian History and the Department of History and Political Science chair. Her scholarly work focuses on the Korean peninsula under Japanese colonial rule. She is the author of articles analyzing the intersections of colonialism, gender, identity and power. Her current book manuscript, “Schooling Discontent: Education, Identity and Student Protest in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945,” examines student resistance to Japanese rule on the Korean peninsula. Her new research explores the spread and impact of…
Alexandria Wilson-McDonald
Assistant Professor
Alexandria Wilson-McDonald, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida where she also earned graduate certificates in European studies and gender studies. Her scholarly work focuses on politics and gender in Central Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in the relationship between social movement activism, gender equality, and policymaking in Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland. Her current book project takes a grounded, qualitative approach to examine…
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