Ohio University would like to welcome our newest Glidden Visiting Professor from Chubu University, Dr. Nobuyuki Kawauchi. He will be arriving on February 9, 2012 and will be with us here at OU until April 1, 2012.

Dr. Nobuyuki Kawauchi is a professor in the Department of Comparative Cultures at Chubu University in Japan. He received his BA from Kanazawa University in 1973 and his MA from Rikkyo University in 1975 concentrating on history for both.

He received his Ph.D in history from Kanazawa University in 2001 and has been serving in his current capacity at Chubu since 1997. His field of study is American contemporary history, especially the New Deal and Great Depression in the 1930s.

He will be researching the Development of the Temperance Movement and New Deal policy as it relates to Ohio in the 1930s and is also very interested in the current economic recession that began in September 2008 with the fall of Lehman Brothers.