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Editor: Marc Jason Gilbert


     

Marc Jason Gilbert is a past President of the World History Association. He received a Ph.D. in history from UCLA and for many years thereafter was a Professor of History and co-Director of faculty programs in South and Southeast Asia in the University System of Georgia. Since 2006, he has been the holder of the National Endowment for the Humanities-supported Endowed Chair in World History at Hawai’i Pacific University. Since 2008, he has been the editor of this journal. He has conducted numerous workshops on researching and teaching world history from Europe to Vietnam. He has written widely on the place of Asia in world history with particular reference to South and Southeast Asia. Recent books include South Asia in World History (2017), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, with Jon Davidann (2nd edition, 2019) and World Civilizations: The Global Experience, with Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas and Stuart Schwartz, now approaching its 8th edition. He can be reached at mgilbert@hpu.edu and hallgilbert@earthlink.net.


Associate Editor:
Rick Warner

     

Rick Warner is a lifetime member of the World History Association. Rick is Associate Professor of Latin American and World History and Associate Dean of Students at Wabash College. Most recently Rick edited an edition of the World History Bulletin focused on Food in World History, and edited a review forum about Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s The World a History for H-WORLD. At present he is involved in research about the pedagogy of World History in high schools and colleges. He can be contacted at warnerri@wabash.edu.


Associate Editor:
Jonathan T. Reynolds

     

Dr. Jonathan T. Reynolds is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, where he received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 2001. He teaches African, World, and Middle Eastern History, as well as courses on Historical Method. He also serves as advisor to the International Student Union and the Phi Alpha Theta History honor society. He and co-author Erik Gilbert recently published Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present (Prentice Hall, 2004). Reynolds has also authored The Time of Politics (Zamanin Siyasa): Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950–1966 (UPA, 2001) and several articles on "Africa in World History" and Islam and Politics in West Africa.


Managing Editor: Heidi Roupp

     

Heidi Roupp is Managing Editor of World History Connected. Heidi taught world history in the Aspen Public Schools for 20 years. She has received Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and the first recipient of the American Historical Association's Beveridge Teaching Prize. During her tenure as president of the World History Association (1998-2000), she organized a nation-wide program of world history institutes for educators preparing to teach world history which was made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the College Board. She is author of Teaching World History (1997), and co-author of Barron's SAT II World History. She is currently executive director of World History Connected, Inc., the parent of this journal. She can be reached at Heidiroupp@aol.com


Book Review Editor:
Christine Skwiot

     

Christine Skwiot is Associate Professor of Humanities and History at Maine Maritime Academy. Christine can be reached at:

Christine Skwiot
christine.skwiot@mma.edu


Departmental Editors:

     

Craig Benjamin, editor for Big History, is an associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is the author of numerous published papers, chapters, and books on ancient Central Asia, big history, and historiography. He is a member of the Executive Council of the World History Association, and a frequent presenter and lecturer at conferences worldwide. At Grand Valley State Craig teaches big history, ancient Eurasian history, and world history historiography to students ranging from freshmen to graduates.

 

     

Sharon Cohen, editor for scholarship on teaching and learning in world history, is an Advanced Placement P World History teacher at Springbrook High School in suburban Maryland. From 2002 – 2006, she was on the AP World History Test Development Committee. She has produced several publications for the College Board, including the Teacher’s Guide for AP World History (2007) and Special Focus on Teaching About Latin America and Africa in the Twentieth Century (2008). She contributed to the curriculum projects World History For Us All and Bridging World History. She also presents frequently about teaching and learning at conferences worldwide. As a College Board consultant, she has conducted AP World History workshops and summer institutes since 2001. She can be reached at sharon_c_cohen@mcpsmd.org.

 

     

Wendy Eagan, editor for Visual Literacy, teaches AP World History, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Comparative Religion at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. She has written features for World History Connected since November, 2003. She serves as a Table Leader at the AP World Reading and has conducted teacher institutes and seminars as a Faculty Consultant for the College Board. She is a member of the World History Association and has frequently presented sessions at the annual National Council for the Social Studies Conferences since 2002. She has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to the American University in Cairo, and a grant recipient from both the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University and The Freedman Foundation. She works in the Washington, DC metropolitan area as an educational consultant for a variety of clients. Contact her at Wendy_J_Eagan@mcpsmd.org.

 

     

Angela Lee teaches in the History Department of Weston High School in Weston, Massachusetts. She currently serves as a member of the governing Executive Council of the World History Association, as the chair of the Web and Social Media Committee, and on its Teaching Committee. She previously served on the Advanced Placement World History Test Development Committee and is currently a Table Leader for that examination. She started #whapchat on Twitter in 2015. She and Suzanne Litrel are editors for Active Learning Strategies and Resources. She can be contacted at mrsleehistory@gmail.com.

 

     

Suzanne Litrel is a historian of Dutch Brazil and the Portuguese Atlantic world. Previously, she had served as an award-winning International Baccalaureate/Advanced Placement World History and Economics teacher on Long Island, New York, an experience that prompted her to write the Jackie Tempo historical fiction series. More recently, she has taught the undergraduate survey in modern world history. Her published work offers strategies in teaching and world-historical enrichment; she has also written for and served as a guest editor for the World History Bulletin's "The World from Latin America." Suzanne continues to research and write on Dutch Brazil and is a contributor to forthcoming publications on women in Latin American and World History. She and Angela Lee are editors for Active Learning Strategies and Resources. She can be contacted at suzannemlitrel@gmail.com.

 

     

Nikki Magie is a world historian with an emphasis on Latin America and migration. She is an Associate Professor at Olivet College in Michigan, where she teaches World History and various regional history courses. While earning her Ph.D. at Michigan State University, she was honored with the Somers Excellence in Teaching Award. She is currently on the Advisory Board for World History Commons, writes for World History Project, and is Vice-President of the Midwest World History Association. She can be reached at nmagie@olivetcollege.edu.

 

     

John Maunu, editor for Internet Resources, is an AP/College Board World history consultant and veteranAP World Reader and Table Leader. John has taught high school history for 39 years in Wisconsin (3 years--Riverdale School District) and 36 years at Grosse Ile high school, Michigan. He is a former Christa McAuliffe National Fellow (1989 NFIE) and MEA-Michigan
Global and Diversity Educator of the Year (2003). John teaches AP World history College Board workshops nationally. He can be reached at maunu48@hotmail.com.*

 

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Saundra Schwartz, editor for pre-modern history, is Assistant Professor of History, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, and her email address is saundra.schwartz@hawaii.edu.

 

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Bill Strickland, editor for Instructional Technology, teaches AP World History at East Grand Rapids High School in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. You can reach him at BStrickl@egrps.org.

 


Past Editors:

     

Heather Streets is a founding co-editor of World History Connected (2003-2008). After earning her Ph.D. at Duke University in 1998, Heather came to Washington State University at Pullman, teaching the undergraduate world civilizations survey. She has written extensively on the British Empire, most notably Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (Manchester University Press, 2005), Heather has also edited Jerry Bentley and Herbert Ziegler's Global Encounters: A Brief Global History, the condensed version of the McGraw-Hill text, and is Britain and British Empire editor for the Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2008).

 

 

 
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