Pittsburgh World History Center

The Center addresses our era's central need for global historical analysis. It draws on Pitt's tradition of international and interdisciplinary studies.

Founded in 2008, the World History Center contributes to the establishment of solid institutions to support study of world history. It draws on the Pitt History Department’s long tradition of leadership in social history and reaches in new directions. The Center is active in facilitating collaborative research in world history (notably the World-Historical Dataverse) and in building international institutions in world history (especially the foundation of NOGWHISTO and its affiliates in southern continents). In its current stage, the Center focuses especially on development of graduate study in world history, both through a collaborative annual World History Dissertation Workshop and through the development of doctoral specialization in world history linked to other aspects of the History Ph.D. at Pitt.