Laudations
Laudations
Laudations is an online collection spotlighting the professional contributions Muskingum University faculty and staff make to their respective disciplines.
JOURNALISM
Assistant Professor of Journalism Natascha Toft Roelsgaard was named the winner of the 2025 Rising Scholar Award by the editors of American Journalism, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association. The award is given annually to a scholar who shows promise in extending their research agenda. The award will support travel for archival research as part of Roelsgaard's work on a book project that examines the work of nineteenth and twentieth-century women reporters who employed what she terms "structural witnessing" to injustice and employed journalism as a moral and political intervention, using counter-storytelling and an ethics of care approach, to document systemic injustices. Roelsgaard will receive her award during AJHA's 44th Annual Convention, to be held Sept. 25-27 in Long Beach, California.
HISTORY
Professor of History and Schwartz Faculty Scholar Laura Hilton presented on “Jewish Displaced Persons, Rebuilding Lives, and Immigration in the Postwar Period” during a two-day training for middle school and high school teachers at the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Research Center (HERC) in Milwaukee, WI.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Associate Professor of Political Science Richard Arnold published two articles in the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: “Outsized Climate Change Will Shape Russian Politics” and “Kremlin Playing Memory Politics to Recruit Cossacks into BARS Units”.
