News from the Global History and Culture Centre
NEH award for World History Commons
The NEH will be funding the establishment of 'World History Commons', an Open Educational Resource (OER) that will provide high quality, peer-reviewed resources for teaching and research in world and global history. World History Commons will introduce new humanities scholarship and pedagogy while preserving and enhancing widely-used resources from World History Matters and the Global History Reader, a collaboration between scholars at Monash University and from our own GHCC.
World History Association/Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Paper Prize
Congratulations to Emilia Antiglio has won the 2015 World History Association/Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Paper Prize with the essay 'The Diffusion of porcelaine des Indes in Eighteenth-Century France: from Lorient to Paris and beyond, 1720-1775'.
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Professor Giorgio Riello, winner of the 2014 World History Association Book Prize
Many congratulations to Professor Giorgio Riello, winner of the 2014 World History Association Bentley Book Prize for Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World (CUP 2013).
Please also see the other publications of the Centre members.
Jan de Vries Hon DLitt (Honorary Doctor of Letters)
On Monday 15 July 2013, Professor Jan de Vries was awarded an honorary degree of letters from the University of Warwick. Please see the full text of the speech he delivered and the full text of the laudatio delivered by Professor Maxine Berg.
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