• MA teaching

• Postgraduate Research

• Undergraduate research projects (URSS)
  

• Undergraduate teaching

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MA in Global History

The MA in Global and Comparative History is an innovative taught MA course, one of the first in the UK to focus specifically on global history, and offering students the chance to investigate one of the most dynamic areas of current historical enquiry and debate. At its centre is a core module exploring the way in which global history has emerged, the methods it adopts, the subject areas it addresses and the criticisms it has attracted.

Throughout, students are encouraged to explore how the global can be investigated in relation to the regional and the local, as part of wider debates on historical methods and interpretation. This provides a route into studying major regions of the globe, including Latin America, India and China. Student's also benefit from the wider activities of the Global History and Culture Centre, with the option to participate in seminars, lectures and conferences arranged by the Centre.

The course offers an excellent route into PhD research in the emerging field of global history and culture. Recent postgraduates have also advanced into careers in the cultural sector, consultancy and teaching.

Postgraduate Research

Members of the Global History and Culture Centre welcome expressions of interest in pursuing research degrees at the University of Warwick Department of History. Recently completed and current PhD students supervised by members of the Global History and Culture Centre include the following:

• Malik Hammad Ahmad, Civil Resistance Movements of Pakistan 1977-1988
• Bhangya Bhukya, Power, Subaltern and Identity: Making of the Lambada Community (a nomadic/pastoral community) in Hyderabad State
• Somak Biswas, Passages to India: British Indophiles in an age of empire
• Shrikant Botre, Rationalizing the Body: Sexual Modernity in Colonial Western India
• Will Bramwell, Imagining the alternatives: The legacies of collaboration and the making of post-war South Africa, 1902-1910
• Anna Bruzzone, Markets, Colonialisms and the Construction of Sovereignty: Processes of State Formation in the Somalia-Kenya Borderlands (1925-1963)
• Shengfang Chou, Late Qing China and the British World: Space, Body and the Image of Empire 1840-1920
• Tim Davies, British Private Trade Networks in the Arabian Seas, c.1680-c.1760
• Serena Dyer, Trained to Consume: Excess and Restraint in Women's Consumption of Dress, 1770-1830
• Karolina Hutkova, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Textiles in Europe and North America
• Beatriz Martinez Saavedra, Communal Crisis, National Identity and Historical Imagination in Western India
• Rachael Morton, The Making and Possessing of Quality: The Metalware Trades in England, c.1675-1785
• Shailaja Paik, Daughters of the Lesser God: Dalit Women's Education in Postcolonial Pune
• George Roberts, The Cold War in Dar es Salaam, c.1967-1979
• Darshi Thoradeniya, Women's Health as State Strategy: Sri Lanka's Twentieth Century
• Josephine Tierney, Global Design Networks during Empire: the design and consumption of British printed textiles for export to Africa 1850-1914
• David Toulson, World Music, Protest and Opposition to Apartheid 1970-2000
• Christian Velasco Reyes, A comparative historical analysis of financial institutions in diverse sub-Saharan African countries since the last years of the colonial period until the first decade of the 21th century
• Meike von Brescius (nee Fellinger), Beyond Company Control: EIC Servants and the Distribution of Chinese Luxuries in Europe, 1730-1770
• Andrew Whitehead, The Kashmir Conflict of 1947: Testimonies of a Contested History

Undergraduate Research Student Scholarship (URSS) Projects since 2010

A number of undergraduate students undertake research projects funded by the Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme. Undergraduate students interested in pursuing such projects in areas related to global history and cultre are invited to contact any of the members of the Global History and Culture Centre, and we would be happy to support such applications. The following URSS projects have been completed in recent years in areas related to global history and culture:

• 2013/14 James Handy, 'Everyday acquisitiveness: Luxury in English public discourse, 1650-1800', supervised by Professor Giorgio Riello
• 2013/14 Veselin Ivanov, 'Art, Power and Identity - A Comparative Study of Early Modern Islamic Empires', supervised by Dr James Baldwin
• 2012/13 Holly Winter, 'The Scandal of Empire: Anglo-Indian Material Culture and the making of the English Country House', supervised by Dr Chris Nierstrasz
• 2012/13 Tereza Hausmanova, 'The Manila galleons in global history: trans-pacific exchanges and consumer cultures, 1400-1800', supervised by Dr Anne Gerritsen
• 2012/13 Ilina Sen, 'Global Gifts: Embassies to the Mughal Emperors and the Role of Gift-giving, 1600-1750', supervised by Professor Giorgio Riello
  Samantha Tanizar, 'Mestizo cultures in early modern Malacca in a global perspective', supervised by Dr Anne Gerritsen
• 2010/11 Joshua Cockcroft and Sacha Hepburn, 'The International Criminal Court in Kenya: Impunity, Violence and the Post-Colonial State'. Supervised by Dr Daniel Branch
• 2010/11 Joseph Francombe, 'The History of Nonviolent Resistance in India'. Supervised by Professor David Hardiman
• 2010/11 Varvara-Vera Pratikaki,'A comparative view of European and Japanese cultures through a study of their mechanical automata in the 18th and early 19th centuries'. Supervised by Dr Anne Gerritsen

Undergraduate Teaching

The Department of History offers a number of modules with a 'global' approach for students in their first, second and final year. The content of these modules not only goes beyond British and European History, but explores more than one part of the world, and pays attention to the ways in which these different parts of the world came into contact with each other in the past. Many of these modules are thematically organised, and offer students the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the different modes of global interaction. Recent and current 'global' modules include the following:

First and Second Year HI173 Empire and Aftermath HI177 A History of Africa from 1800 AM217 Caribbean History AM219 – From the Revolution to the Drug War AM220 "The Country of the Future?" Introduction to the History of Modern Brazil HI275 – The British Problem: Empire, Conflict and National Identities HI277 Africa and the Cold War HI293 Galleons and Caravans: Global Connections 1300-1800 HI294 The History of Modern China HI296 – The Scientific Revolution in Perspective HI297 Twentieth Century India: Colonialism, Democracy and Protest HI2A7 A Global History of Food HI2B2 Go-Betweens: Crossing Borders

Final Year AM 421 – The Drug Trade in the Americas HI34C – Building the Future: the Politics of Urban Planning HI341 – Medicine, Empire and the Body 1750-1914 HI 3H6 – Postwar: Aftermaths of World War II HI3H4 – Empire of the Book HI3J1 – Empire and Oil HI31C Merchants, Missionaries and the Opium War HI31F Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans HI31T India after Indira HI31V A History of Globalization HI32B Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60 AM420 Space, Place and Movement in Atlantic Slave Societies: Brazil, Cuba, and the US, 1791-1888 HI3H2 – Britian, the Mandates and the Modern Middle East