The University of Pittsburgh’s Alliance for Learning in World History and Global Studies Center will host a series of three virtual workshops for educators about using History for the 21st Century (H21) modules in the classroom from 6:00PM-8:00PM eastern on March 20, April 10, and May 1. Each session will explore one peer-reviewed module created for the H21 website, facilitated by its creator. The H21 project offers complete modules for introductory world history classrooms that include student readings and primary sources, lesson plans, instructor guides, and discussion, activity, and assessments suggestions.
The sessions can be counted as an elective for the Global Studies Center’s K-12 Educator’s Certificate in Global Studies. Educators can also receive up to six (2 hours per session) of Act 48 credit hours for attending all three sessions. Participation in all three events in the series is not required but encouraged. Use the Google Form to RSVP!
March 20 “Refugees in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” with Jesse Spohnholz, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
In this module, students ask what caused the forced migration of refugees in Europe, West Africa, and the Americas in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and, more broadly, who gets to define a refugee and why.
April 10 “Hunting, Imperialism, and the Wilderness,” with Erica Mukherjee, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
This module explores the ways humans hunted, poached, and preserved wildlife during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in imperial contexts.
May 1 “Unsovereign Space” with Phillip Guingona, 6:00PM-8:00PM on Zoom
This module examines understandings of space, as well as claims, negotiations, and ways humans have attempted to share space across time.
About the facilitators
Jesse Spohnholz is a professor of early modern European social, cultural, and religious history at Washington State University. Jesse is also the Director of History for the 21st Century.
Erica Mukherjee is an environmental historian of South Asia and clinical assistant professor of history at New York University Shanghai. In addition to writing on the relationship of land, water, and administration in imperial India, she is the co-founder of Elemental Tours, a public history project on the urban environment of Manchester.
Phillip Guingona, who received his PhD from the University at Buffalo, teaches world and Asian history at Nazareth University in Upstate New York. Before arriving at Nazareth, he made stops at Wells College, Washington State University, and Marietta College. His research and teaching interests span from sports history to Sino-Philippine relations to a history of the internet. In addition to preparing the History for the 21st Century module Unsovereign Territory, he recently published his first monograph, China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900-1950, with Cambridge University Press.