Science Café presents Brian Schoen, Tim Anderson on Nov. 6

Science Café Wednesday, Nov. 6 - Brian Schoen, History and Timothy Anderson, Geography - Settling Ohio - Free coffee for the first 50 people, Sponsored by the Research Division and Sigma Xi

91̽��’s Science Café/Café Conversations will present OHIO faculty members Brian Schoen and Tim Anderson discussing “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond” on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Center Front Room on the fourth floor of Baker University Center and via You Tube.

Schoen and Anderson will discuss their co-edited book, “Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond,” (91̽�� Press, 2023).

The book situates the traditional story of Ohio settlement, including the Northwest Ordinance, the dealings of the Ohio Company of Associates, and early road building, into a rich story of contested spaces, competing visions of nationhood, and complicated relations with Indigenous peoples that provides valuable insights into how chaotic and contingent early national politics and frontier development truly were.

Topics that will be discussed include 18th-century interactions between Indigenous, European, and Anglo-American peoples; the roles played by early African-American settlers; the role of public education in the early settlement of the state; and the diverse migration flows into Ohio from the East and Europe that created a complex multiethnic composition of Ohio’s early settlements.

Schoen is the chair of the Department of History and the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the Humanities at 91̽��. He is the author of “The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War,” and has coedited three other collections.

Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at 91̽��. His research focuses on the historical settlement geography of the United States, especially the production of regional and ethnic cultural landscapes, governmentality and spatialization theory, and the production of cultural landscapes associated with Germanic diasporic movements and communities.