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List Of Ohio University Faculty
The following people have been employed by or are otherwise currently employed on the faculty at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Distinguished faculty The university recognizes faculty each year as endowed "Distinguished Professors" Other notable faculty * Jon Edward Ahlquist (1944–2020), molecular biologist and zoologist * Khalid Albudoor, poet * Jon Anderson (1940–2007), taught poetry * Terry A. Anderson (1947–2024), journalist * Eddie Ashworth, media arts and studies professor * Gladys Bailin, choreographer and dancer * Erin Belieu, poet * Danny Bentley, pharmacist * John Joseph Brady, journalist * Frank Ching, taught drawing * William E. Connolly, political theorist * Antonio Cua, philosopher * Stephen Custer, cellist * Carl H. Denbow, taught mathematics and started math Ph.D. program * Hamza El Din, composer * Pam Durban, novelist * Aethelred Eldridge, painter * Walter S. Gamertsfelder, professor of philosophy, later dean and president of Ohio University * David M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio University
Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subsequently approved for the territory in 1802 and state in 1804, opening for students in 1809. Ohio University is the oldest university in Ohio and among the oldest public universities in the United States. Ohio University comprises nine campuses, nine undergraduate colleges, its Graduate College, its college of medicine, and its public affairs school, and offers more than 250 areas of undergraduate study as well as certificates, master's, and doctoral degrees. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". As of Fall 2020, the university's total enrollment at Athens was slightly more than 18,000, while the all-campus enrollment was just over 30, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalid Albudoor
Khalid Albudoor is an Arabic poet born in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Albudoor, who was raised in Dubai, is considered to be one of the most important names in the modern poetry movement of the UAE Education and early work He studied mass communication at United Arab Emirates University and then attended Ohio University Ohio University is a Public university, public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confeder ... in the United States where he obtained an MA in script writing. He began publishing his poetry in 1980 and has been quite active in his community, helping to establish the Emirati Writers’ Union and participating in several poetry festivals in the UAE and abroadHis first collection of poetry “NIGHT” , published in Lebanon in 1992, won Al-Khal Poetry Award. To date, he has published six poetry collect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aethelred Eldridge
Aethelred Eldridge (April 21, 1930 – November 15, 2018), born James Edward Leonard Eldridge in Monroe, Michigan, was an academic and avant-garde painter. He was associate professor at the Ohio University School of Art from 1957 until 2014 and is best known for his black-and-white art accompanied by esoteric writings inspired by William Blake, and the founding of a "Church of William Blake" not far from his home in Athens, Ohio. The church eventually burned down; Eldridge claimed arson. Biography Prior to teaching, he was a college football player at the University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ..., a pilot and an officer in the U.S. Navy. His classes were hard to define and almost function as performance pieces. According to Ron Kroutel, professor em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Durban
Rosa Pam Durban (born March 4, 1947 in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Durban graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A. in 1979. She wrote for the ''Atlanta Gazette'' from 1974 to 1975. She taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Murray State University, and Ohio University. She was also founding co-editor, along with David Bottoms of ''Five Points.'' She taught at Georgia State University from 1986 to 2001 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2001. Her work has appeared in ''Blackbird Review'', ''Tri-Quarterly'', ''Crazyhorse (magazine), Crazyhorse'', the ''Georgia Review'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Epoch (American magazine), Epoch'', ''The New Virginia Review'', and ''The Ohio Review''. Awards * 2001 Lillian Smith Book Award for ''So Far Back'' * 1994 Townsend Prize for ''The Laughing Place'' * 1987 Whiting Awards, Whiting Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamza El Din
Hamza El Din (Arabic حمزة علاء الدين) (July 10, 1929 – May 22, 2006) was an Egyptian Nubian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist. He was born in southern Egypt and was an internationally known musician of his native region Nubia, situated on both sides of the Egypt–Sudan border. After musical studies in Cairo, he lived and studied in Italy, Japan and the United States. El Din collaborated with a wide variety of musical performers, including Sandy Bull, the Kronos Quartet and the Grateful Dead. Early life Born in the village of Toshka in Southern Egypt, in the governorate of Aswan, El Din was originally trained to be an electrical engineer. Like much of Egyptian Nubia, his home village of Toshka was flooded due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. After working in Cairo for the Egyptian national railways, he changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, and later continued his studies at the Accademia Nazionale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Custer
Stephen Custer is a cellist who performs as a soloist and as a regular member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the premier orchestra of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California. "He has performed solos with numerous orchestras and chamber music ensembles, including the Westlake (CA) Chamber Ensemble, Amici Musicae and Philharmonic ensembles and has given many recitals in California and in the eastern US. As a member of the Philharmonic, Stephen has played over 4000 concerts under four Music Directors at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl," and on tour. Custer, who is from Newton, Massachusetts, studied at Juilliard School, did graduate work at Ohio University and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in cello at The Catholic University of America, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He became the principal cellist of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in Syracuse, New York, in 1971. He joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1974. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Cua
Antonio S. Cua (July 23, 1932 – March 27, 2007) was an eminent scholar in Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy who was professor emeritus of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Cua was primarily interested in Western moral philosophy, moral psychology and Chinese ethics, in particular Confucian ethics. He was the author of many important scholarly works, and the chief editor of the ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy'', the first English-language encyclopedia on 'Chinese philosophy'. Early years Cua was born into a Filipino Chinese family doing commercial business in Manila. He graduated from Far Eastern University in Manila in 1952 and came to the United States for graduate studies in philosophy. He received a master's degree in 1954 and a PhD in 1958, both from the University of California at Berkeley. Career From 1958 to 1962, Cua taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He then served as professor of philosophy and chairman of the department at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William E
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Ching
Francis D. K. "Frank" Ching (born 1943) is an architecture and design graphics writer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Ching was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966. After several years of practice, in 1972 he joined the faculty at Ohio University to teach drawing. To support his lectures in architectural graphics, Ching hand-drew and hand-lettered his lecture notes. Department chairmaForrest Wilson presented these notes to the publisher, Van Nostrand Reinhold,https://www.frankching.com/wordpress/?p=1212 It's Been Four Decades... (August 27, 2015) and they were published in 1975, in an edited version, as ''Architectural Graphics'', a book now in its sixth edition. Ching has gone on to produce twelve other books, including ''Building Construction Illustrated'' and ''Architecture: Form, Space & Order''. Ching's printing has been adopted by Adobe in itTektonfont family. Ching was, for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Joseph Brady
John Joseph Brady (born 1942) lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is a visiting professor who teaches news writing and editing, as well as graphics, at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Career Brady served as editor-in-chief of ''Writer's Digest'' and ''Boston'' magazine. He was founding editor of ''The Artist's Magazine'' and ''M:The Magazine for Montessori Families''. He has been teaching at universities and in various fora since the early 1990s, including a stint in 1996 as Hearst Visiting professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Publications Brady is the author of ''Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater''. He also wrote ''The Craft of the Screenwriter'' (Simon & Schuster, 1981), as well as two books for journalists – ''The Craft of Interviewing'' (Random House Vintage, 1976) and ''The Interviewer's Handbook'' (The Writer Books, 2004). He publishes a monthly column on magazine editing for ''Folio'' magazine. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Bentley
Danny R. Bentley is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since January 2017. He represents Kentucky's 98th House district which includes Greenup County as well as part of Boyd County. He is not seeking reelection in 2024. Background Bentley was raised in South Shore, Kentucky, and attended McKell High School. While at McKell, Bentley played both football and baseball alongside future Cincinnati Reds pitcher and coach, Don Gullett. After graduating in 1968, he went on to attend Eastern Kentucky University before transferring to the University of Kentucky where he would earn both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees. Following graduation, Bentley was employed by Revco for nearly 20 years before opening his own pharmacy in 1991. During this period, he also was employed as an assistant professor of biology at Ohio University's Southern Campus. Bentley identifies as a Baptist, and is a deac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu (born September 25, 1965) is an American poet. Early life Belieu was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating from Central High School. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she learned how to construct poetry. Belieu then attended Boston University, and Ohio State University receiving advanced degrees in the area of poetry. Career Belieu previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston University, Kenyon College, Ohio University, and Florida State University. She is presently on faculty at the University of Houston MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Slate'', ''Nerve'', ''The Yale Review'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The New York Times'', ''Tin House'', and ''The Virginia Quarterly Review''. Her poetry collections include ''Infanta, One Above & One Below, Black Box'' and ''Slant Six''. She has served as man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
