Christopher Ohan

Christopher Ohan is Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences as well as an Associate Professor of History at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth Texas. For 8 years he lived and worked in the Kuwait serving as Chair of the Department of International Relation at the American University of Kuwait. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations where he spent nearly three years gathering life histories which focused on the end of the Soviet period. In 2008 he participated in an NEH Summer Institute with William Cook to study the early Franciscan movement. His most recent publication is a chapter entitled “Reconsidering Francis’ Encounter with the Sultan during the Fifth Crusade,” in The World of St. Francis (Franco and Mulvaney eds, Betti Editrice, 2017) and his articles have been published in Franciscan Studies, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, History and Anthropology, and Journal of Educational and Social Research.
Passionate about local history, he is currently President of the Mansfield Heritage Foundation and had served for 3 years as President of the Mansfield Historical Society.
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