People

Leadership and Associates

Ruth Mostern
Director of the World History Center
Raja Adal
Associate Director of the World History Center
Karl Grossner
Research Affiliate, 2017-2022
Katherine Hart
Research Affiliate, 2020-2023
Patrick Manning
Founding Director and Research Associate
Jesse Obert
Digital World History Postdoctoral Associate, 2023-2025
Alexandra Straub
Research Coordinator
Lillian Taylor
Student Administrative/Research Assistant
Randall Taylor
Research Affiliate, 2022-2025
Molly Warsh
Head of Educational Outreach
Sharon Zhang
Graduate Student Fellow, 2023-2024

Past Leadership and Associates

Diego Holstein
Interim Director, 2015-2017 and Associate Director, 2011-2015
Thomas Anderson
Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2010
Krysta Beam
Graduate Student Fellow, 2022-2023
Pepijn Brandon
NWHO Posdoctoral Associate 2015
Elizabeth Cambell
Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2012
Kai Cao
Dataverse Postdoctoral Associate 2012-2014
Yiting Chen
Content and Language Expert: World Historical Gazetteer Project
Nicholas Demjan
Conference Management Associate
Urmi Engineer Willoughby
World History Center Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2014
José Andrés Fernández Montes de Oca
Graduate Student Fellow, 2019-2020
Ana Fumurescu
Graduate Student Fellow, Fall 2021
Jon Gebhardt
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2015-2016
Monica Green
Visiting Scholar 2013-2014
Susan Grunewald
Digital World History Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2022
Ryan Horne
Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History 2017-2019
Artan Hoxha
Research Affiliate, 2020-2021
Aiqun Hu
Research Associate 2014
Owen Knight
Research Affiliate 2020
Pedro Machado
Visiting Scholar 2011
Nathan Michalewicz
Digital World History Postdoctoral Associate, 2022-2023
Abigail Owen
Mellon Publication Project Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2017
Jacob Pomerantz
Graduate Student Fellow, 2018-2019
Catherine Raspanti
Event Management Associate
Daniel Rood
Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in World History of Science 2011
David Ruvolo
Research Project Manager and Center Coordinator
Ari Şekeryan
Research Affiliate, fall 2021
Vicky Shen
Graduate Student Fellow, 2020-2021
Zhifeng Shen
Visiting Scholar
Bennett Sherry
Graduate Student Fellow, 2015-2018; Research Affiliate 2019-2020
Raorao Su
Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023
Jim Suals
Graduate Student Fellow, Spring 2022
Tonia Sutherland
CHIA Postdoctoral Associate 2014-2015