Support for Global Research Initiatives
The WHC casts a wide net in regards to our collaborative partners, both on campus and beyond, that support research and activities related to World History.
On-Campus Partners
Along with our association with the Department of History, the WHC has maintained close relationships with many of our campus partners both within the Social Sciences and beyond. The Center regularly collaborates with the University Center for International Studies (UCIS). The Global Studies Center has been a long-time collaborator on many initiatives and sponsored events through the years including the Anthropocene: Epoch of Loss initiative supported by the Provost's Year of Creativity. Pitt's Asian Studies Center and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) support research related to the WHC's World Historical Gazetteer Project. The Center also frequently collaborates with Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies to host events and workshops related to using digital methods in research like the "Roundtable: Digital and Spatial Approaches to the History of Slavery" held in spring 2022.
The Humanities Center has been a wonderful host for many of our events and workshops, and we have become a recent collaborator with the DHRX, a cross-campus faculty research network. Longstanding partnerships with the University Library System (ULS) and the School of Computing and Information (SCI) have been integral to past successes in digital research initiatives and will be prominent collaborators on current and future projects.
Global Research Partners
The WHC has been a formative partner in establishing the Network of World and Global History Organizations (NOGWHISTO) and continues to support ongoing global research initiatives through this association. Specific partners within this network that have been directly supported by the WHC are the Asian Association of World History (AAHW) and the African Network in Global History.
Through the WHC's World Historical Gazetteer project, the Center has partnered with individual researchers and institutions dedicated to pursuing global historical place name research. Much of version 2 of the WHG was supported by a partnership with the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) which resulted in new features as well as a collection about Dutch Global History including over 4,500 historical place names. The WHG project team is also working with individual scholars who research place names in "focus domains" including the historical Middle East, Latin America, and the Ottoman Empire.