Institute Associates

—academic and nonacademic colleagues who contribute to the life of the Institute

Fred Andrle, former WOSU Open Line radio talk show host, will join ICRPH beginning fall quarter 2009. He plans to be involved with the Institute in developing ways of connecting the humanities with audiences in the central Ohio community. He will also explore possibilities for using mass media to engage the public with issues of broad concern. Andrle’s book of poems, Love Life, was published in 2008.
George Paulson, MD, professor emeritus of neurology, joined the Institute as an Associate in 2005, specializing in the study of local and medical history, and in that time has published with Institute support James Fairchild Baldwin, M.D. 1850-1936: An Extraordinary Surgeon (2005), William Thornton, M.D.: Gentleman of the Enlightenment (2007), Hilltop: A Hospital and a Sanctuary for Healing: its Past and its Future (with Marion E. Sherman)(2008), and Arthur James: Surgeon with a Dream (with Kristen Rodgers) (2009).


Richard Sisson, Provost and Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Ohio State, where he held the Board of Trustees Chair in Comparative Politics, joined the Institute in 1999. Since then he has published with Institute support The Evolution of Political Knowledge (edited with Edward D. Mansfield) (2004); Ohio and the World, 1753–2053: Essays toward a New History of Ohio (edited with Geoffrey Parker and William Russell Coil) (2005); "The Indian National Congress: Development and Transformation," in Stanley Wolpert, ed., Encyclopedia of South Asia (2005); and The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (co-edited with Christian Zacher and Andrew Cayton) (2007).