Projects
The Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History is associated with the following projects:
Global History Network
The Global History Network brings global historians worldwide into a sustained conversation. With a member on every continent, the Network embeds the study of global history in a collaboration of like-minded institutions around the globe. Global history, or the analysis of the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological and demographic—among world societies, is a one of the most important developments in the field today. The Network provides a structure for exchange of ideas by allowing PhD students to spend a semester with a partner institution, as well as organizing conferences and facilitating joint teaching and faculty exchanges. Global history is in fact a global activity, and we hope to play a key role in helping to shape this cooperative endeavor. The Global Network is partially funded by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
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Global Sports Initiative
The globality of sports and its corresponding deep connection to place has a long history, and the Global Sports Initiative at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard University focuses on exploring the past and present of sports through uniquely global and local links. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines, as well as practitioners involved in sports today, the initiative seeks to create research relevant to the study of sports and society. This inter-disciplinary and inter-industry dialogue can establish better mechanisms for understanding sports’ global connections and impact on important current and future cultural, economic, political and social concerns.
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative
The Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI) is a network of scholars, research teams, artists, and civil society organizations from all over the world. With more than 25 partner institutes, CFI collaborators have been working extensively on global commodity production, rural societies, labor history, the history of capitalism, and social and ecological frictions and capitalist fixes in the global countryside. Collaborators have published some of the most important books, articles, and reports in their fields. Together they are expert on a wide range of global commodities, covering all the principle producing regions of the world, from the early modern period to the present day, employing a range of approaches from social and economic history, anthropology, sociology, political science, ecology, and development studies.