On June 18th, WIGH, in partnership with the Charles Hamilton Houston Center for Race and  Justice at Harvard Law School, held a webinar on “A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know.”...

Read more about Harvard Gazette article on WIGH Webinar on the Legacy of the Tulsa Massacre

The Weatherhead Initiative for Global History and the History Department of the East China Normal University, and other members of the Global History Network, will examine this multidimensional process of transformation –from the vantage of the history of material commodities and technological transfer broadly construed – at a conference at the ECNU in Shanghai in October 2020. We welcome proposals for papers that will address the question of how the extraction of resources, cultivation and marketing of commodities, and the changing organization of production and finance have...

Read more about Call for Papers- Toward a Global History of Economic Transfer: Commodities, Commodity Chains, and Processes of Economic Innovation

The WIGH Steering Committee welcomes two new members: Rosie Bsheer (Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University) and Sophus Reinert (Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School). They will join the fourteen other Steering Committee members in providing guidance and oversight to the mission and... Read more about New steering committee members

DEADLINE EXTENDED- We have extended the application deadline for our 2019-2020 Global History Fellowship. Applications will be accepted through January 2nd. https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/book/dissertation-research-grants Read more about Fellowship Application Deadline Extended