HOGAN TO BE INTERIM DEAN OF COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES

   COLUMBUS -- Michael J. Hogan, chair of the Department of History at The Ohio State University, will serve as interim dean of the College of Humanities, it was announced today (4/20) by Edward J. Ray, executive vice president and provost.

   Pending approval by the university's Board of Trustees at its next meeting on May 7, Hogan will succeed Kermit Hall, who is resigning as dean of the college in mid-July to become vice chancellor and provost at North Carolina State University.

   "Under Kermit Hall's leadership, the College of Humanities has made extraordinary strides in scholarship and teaching," Ray said. "Similarly, the Department of History, under Michael Hogan's stewardship, has become one of the strongest and most innovative departments in the college and the entire university. I am confident that Professor Hogan will keep the college on this upward trajectory, and I am pleased that he has agreed to serve as interim dean while we undertake a national search for a permanent dean."

   Hogan, 55, of UPPER ARLINGTON, has been chair of the Department of History since 1993. He came to Ohio State in 1986 as a professor of history. A Ph.D. graduate of the University of Iowa, he taught at Miami University for nine years before joining the Ohio State faculty.

   Hogan's teaching and scholarly interests are in American diplomatic and recent U.S. history. The author of three books, including a prize-winning history of the Marshall Plan, he is also the editor of five additional volumes and a recipient of the University's Distinguished Scholar Award.

   The College of Humanities includes 13 departments: African American and African Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, French and Italian, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Greek and Latin, History, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, and Women's Studies. In addition, it is home to the centers for the Study and Teaching of Writing, Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies, Folklore Studies, Foreign Language, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies. The college has 310 faculty, 2,228 undergraduate students enrolled in major programs, 664 students in graduate studies, and offers 3,317 classes to 96,000 students annually.

Contact: Michael Hogan, (614) 292-3001