This seminar will introduce students to the literature on and practice of global history today. Toward that end, the graduate-faculty research seminar is structured to bring together interested faculty and students on a...
The Center for Global Studies is a research center examining current and historical processes of the interweaving and disentangling of human areas of life over great geographical distances and different cultural contexts.
The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny...
Today’s interconnected world is not a new phenomenon; it has a deep history. The history of migration and trade, of empires and nation-states, of religion and the environment, of ideas, of communication and war have all contributed to linking and separating different parts of the world for many...
The World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh emphasizes research, teaching, and international collaboration on the global past, with attention to policies for the global future. The center, led by Interim Director Diego Holstein, is located in the Department of History and is...
The Georgetown Institute for Global History (GIGH) was founded in the belief that all histories form part of a greater, global whole, and that the structures of today’s interlinked societies are the products of historical forces that have shaped the world since the beginning of time....
Our focus is unabashedly on the new globalization that has manifested itself so vigorously in the period starting sometime after World War II. Starting from this relatively contemporary perspective, we are fully aware that the new globalization process, or processes, is on a spectrum with...
Since the 1990s, most of the activities of the Toynbee Prize Foundation have grown out of the New Global History Initiative launched and directed by Bruce Mazlish, Professor Emeritus of History at of MIT and the original...
The Journal of World History publishes research into historical questions requiring the investigation of evidence on a global, comparative, cross-cultural, or transnational scale. It is devoted to the study of phenomena that transcend the boundaries of...
Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend...
H-World is a network for practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research, to teaching, and to the connections between research and teaching.
The Global Studies Association (GSA) is a new and multi-disciplinary scholarly association.
This venture is supported by a group of scholars world-wide who wish to collaborate in order to better understand the vast transformations which are sweeping across our world.
Global history emphasizes the study of processes that transcend regions, nations, and even any single civilization. These processes include colonialism and imperialism, nationalism, international relations, environment, religion, ideologies, labor, migration/diaspora, industrialization,...