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    WIGH Fellowship 2019-2020

    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 of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose to...

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    WIGH Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019-2020

    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 of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies. We encourage applicants from all over the world, and especially from outside Europe...

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    Sven Beckert

    Sven Beckert

    Laird Bell Professor of American History, Harvard University; WCFIA Faculty Associate

    Professor Beckert's research and teaching focus on the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history...

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    Robinson Hall
    Room 119
    35 Quincy Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    beckert@fas.harvard.edu
    p: 617.495.0697

    About the Global History Network

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    Global history—the search to understand how human societies have developed as an interactive community across the world—has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization, drawing on students and researchers better trained in languages and social science methods than ever before, it flourishes as one of the most important developments in the discipline of history today. Examining processes, networks, identities and events that cross the boundaries of modern nation states, this venture to push...

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    The Global and European Studies Institute (GESI)

    The Global and European Studies Institute (GESI) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig and devoted to graduate teaching and research in the field of Globalisation and Europeanisation. It works at the cross-roads of several disciplines and aims at an analytical interpretation of the global condition in which we live.

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    Global Environmental History (HIST 1975)

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2012

    Prof. Franz Josef Brueggemeier, Location: Robinson Hall 105, Meeting Time: Th., 4-6

    The course will explore how different human societies have comprehended, used, adapted to and valued their natural environments and how these environments have shaped human behavior and the way their societies developed. The course will range from pre-historic times until the current debate about global warming. In doing so the course will also provide an introduction into the field of environmental history, its theories and methodologies and some of its most important works.

    Holger Droessler

    Holger Droessler

    WIGH Associate
    Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bard College
    Ph.D., Harvard (2015)

    Research Interests: 19th-century U.S. history, colonialism, global labor history, Pacific history

    Website

    hdroessl@fas.harvard.edu

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