WHA Annual Meeting: Korea 2026

Introducing _World in Motion: A Dynamic History of Humankind_
2026-06-26 , Room 201 (Seats 42)

Authored by Jonathan T. Reynolds and Erik Gilbert, World in Motion is a core world history text is built around the idea that EVERYTHING MOVES. People (and their Identities), Goods, Ideas, the Environment, and even our understandings of History itself are always in motion. More so, the concept of motion helps to blur and complicate the boundaries that humans so love to create and impose on our understandings of our world and history. Come meet at least one of the authors and see if this is the world history textbook Of Your Dreams!


World History, Textbook, Textbook of Your Dreams, Solution to all your Teaching Problems, Motion.

Jonathan Reynolds is Regents Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. He received his BA from the University of Tennessee with majors in Honors History, Anthropology, and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations, and his PhD in African History at Boston University. At Livingstone College he received the Aggrey Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. While teaching at NKU he has received the Outstanding Junior Faculty, the Excellence in Sustained Research, and the Milburn Outstanding Professor Awards. Beyond works on Islam in West Africa he (along with cool co author Dr. Erik Gilbert) has published Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present and Trading Tastes: Culture and Commodity to 1750. Reynolds is also the author of, Sovereignty and Struggle: Africa in the Era of the Cold War. From 2022-2024 he served as President of the World History Association

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