I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History, and Director of the Religion, Culture and Society Program, University of Victoria. Newly out (co-authored with Martin Bunton) with Hackett Publishing is The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Forging of the Modern Middle East: A Short History with Documents.

Áurea Toxqui is an Associate Professor of History, Interim Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Associate Dean of Diversity and Innovation in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the intersections between the popular culture, alcohol consumption, particularly pulque and mezcal, cultural patrimony, and the identity formation in Mexico. She is the co-editor, with Gretchen Pierce, of Alcohol in Latin America. She has also written chapters and articles in Iconic Mexico, Alcohol and Drugs in North America, Mexico in Verse and The Growth of Non-Western Cities. She is a member of the editorial board of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs.

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Dr. Benjamin Firgens is an assistant professor of communication at Mount St. Mary's University. He studies how debates over technology allow publics to imagine and contest their futures and he explores past developments in the social construction of technology to make sense of current trends in digital culture.

Carl Kubler is a global historian of modern China and peoples of Chinese descent. His scholarship and teaching sit at the intersection of Chinese history, Asian American history, and diaspora studies and center on how the forces of trade, migration, and cross-cultural encounter shape everyday life, with particular emphasis on the history of contact between China and the West. Kubler’s research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Program, Henry Luce Foundation, and Association for Asian Studies, among others.

www.louisville.edu/history/faculty/yingling

Cynthia Ross is the Editor for World History Connected and an Assistant Professor of History at East Texas A&M University near Dallas, Texas. She earned her doctoral degree from Washington State University in 2011, with specializations in World History, War and Society, Environmental History, Food History, and American Empire. She has extensive experience teaching World History, U.S. History from a global perspective, historiography and theory, and courses in her specializations to diverse student populations including undergraduate, graduate, dual credit, first generation university students, and active adult learners. She holds numerous research awards including the Global Human Rights Fellowship and is a Global Fellow at her university. Her most recent publication “Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys” is in Mandy Link and Matthew Stith, Eds., Beyond No Man’s Land: New Perspectives of the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Her two current monograph projects focus on the role of botanists in creating militarized landscapes in the Pacific and a history of Texas wine.

Diana Reigelsperger is an Associate Professor of History at Seminole State College in Florida. Her area of research is colonial Spanish Florida. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Fortune Favors the Bold: Networks of Trade and Migration Between Florida and the Atlantic World.

Dr. Rebecca A. Devlin is an Associate Professor of History (Term) at the University of Louisville. Her manuscript, Bishops, Community and Authority in Late Roman Society: Northwestern Hispania, ca. 370-470 C.E (Amsterdam University Press , 2024), employs an interdisciplinary approach, using archaeological and written sources to put the clergy of the Iberian Peninsula in their economic, social and political contexts. Her current projects explore the role of merchants, the non-elite, enslaved peoples, freed-persons and the Church in economic and social developments in both the ancient world and nineteenth-century Kentucky.

Elizabeth Pollard is Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence at San Diego State University, where she has taught Roman History, World History, and witchcraft studies since 2002. She is founding co-director of SDSU’s Center for Comics Studies and created SDSU’s Comics and History course exploring sequential art from the paleolithic to today. Pollard is currently working on two comics-related projects: an analysis of comics about ancient Rome over the last century and a graphic history exploring the influence of classical understandings of witchcraft on their representations in modern comics. Pollard has co-authored a world history survey (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart) and has published on various pedagogical and digital history topics, including DH approaches to visualizing Roman History.

Emily Mokros is an associate professor of Chinese history at the University of Kentucky.

François Drémeaux is MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow - Ingénieur de recherche at Université d'Angers - TEMOS UMR 9016 & California State University, Sacramento. He is also Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Hong Kong

Garret McCorkle is the Manager of Education at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Before public history, he was a K-12 teacher and brings a perspective that centers on interpreting complex ideas for a broad audience. Recently honored as a Kentucky Colonel for his work as an Educator, Garret has led the push to create a digital learning hub for the Ali Center’s website. He also leads youth programs, K-12 outreach, and programs that seek to develop athletes into social changemakers in the spirit of Muhammad Ali.

Graham Shelby is an experienced multimedia storyteller based in Louisville. He has written for The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Creative Nonfiction, Salon, and many other outlets. His audio stories have appeared on NPR, The Moth Radio Hour, Marketplace, and Voice of America.
A veteran speaker and stage performer, he also hosts The Moth Story Slam in Louisville, Kentucky and frequently performs, lectures and conducts workshops on storytelling and related subjects.
He directed the documentary "City of Ali," which is first film. Graham holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Spalding University.

Dr. Iram Naseer Ahmad has been working as an Assistant Professor and Head of History & Pakistan Studies Department at Forman Christian College University. Prior to that she has taught at LCWU and University of Education as well. She earned her PhD from the University of the Punjab and completed her research work of one semester from Arizona state university on Exchange Visiting Program. She is a Research Associate at Oxford Research House, and an Associate Fellow at Royal Historical Society (RHS). She has won several awards like ‘World Scholar Award’ ‘World History Commons’ honorarium, Volkswagen Foundation Award, Alliance for Learning in World History Award. Besides, she presented her research work in numerous national and international conferences. She published several articles and chapters in books. Her specialisation is on Pakistan China Relations, CPEC and BRI.

Joy Ferdinand is a Reintegration Advocate, Graduate Assistant, and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, School of Criminal Justice & Criminology. She specializes in criminal justice reform, reintegration advocacy, and policy-driven social justice initiatives. Through her work with the City of Little Rock Reentry Program, she helps provide essential resources for justice-impacted individuals, ensuring access to employment, housing, and civic engagement opportunities.

As a Youth Delegate with the United Nations Association-USA, Joy has advocated for policies aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions). She has contributed to policy recommendations on reducing recidivism, fostering mentorship programs, and implementing community-led reintegration initiatives. In 2024, she delivered a speech at the United Nations Headquarters on the role of youth engagement in financing sustainable development and moderated a high-level session on global financial and development challenges.

Joy’s expertise bridges academic research, policy reform, and direct advocacy, making her a leading voice in justice-driven peacebuilding efforts. She remains committed to transforming reintegration programs into strategic tools of systemic resistance against mass incarceration and criminalization.

A teacher with Portland Public Schools. Comics, the military, and the British Empire a specialty.

Lyndsey Saunders is a doctoral student of Sociology at UMass Amherst. Her research explores modern-day outcomes of education and neighborhood disenfranchisement perpetuated over time by universities in historically redlined cities. Her current work focuses specifically on Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to her research, she also teaches undergraduate Statistics.

Associate Professor of Russian and Middle Eastern History at the University of Alabama and Co-Director of the Global Research Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Michelle Wick Patterson is an assistant professor of History at Mount St. Mary’s University. Her scholarship examines cross-cultural interactions between Native Americans and non-Indians in the early 20th century. She teaches courses in Native American and US Women’s History. Additionally, she engages in service-learning and study abroad programs at the Mount.

Morgan Lemmer-Webber is the Executive Director of the World History Association. She has a PhD in Art History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses on the social history of women in the ancient world with a particular focus on textile production.

Nicole Magie is a Professor at the University of Olivet, where she teaches various regional and world history courses. She is a world historian with an emphasis on Latin America, migration and experiential learning. Nicole has written for World History Project, is a regional editor on World History Connected, President of the Midwest WHA, and serves on the WHA’s Executive Council. She recently completed a one-year sabbatical during which she researched and traveled in the U.S., Latin America and Europe.

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Rubén Carrillo Martín is a historian specializing in the cultural and migratory exchanges between Asia and colonial Mexico during the early modern period. He earned his Ph.D. from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in 2015, with a dissertation titled Asians to New Spain: Asian Cultural and Migratory Flows in Mexico in the Early Stages of 'Globalization' (1565–1816).​ He currently teaches world history at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

His research focuses on the transpacific connections facilitated by the Manila Galleon trade, examining the presence and influence of Asian communities in New Spain. Carrillo Martín has published several scholarly articles on this subject, including "Asia llega a América: Migración e influencia cultural asiática en Nueva España (1565–1815)" and "Los 'chinos' de Nueva España: migración asiática en el México colonial".

Ruth Mostern is Professor of History and Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh and Vice President of the World History Association.  She is the author of two single-authored books: Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State, 960-1276 CE (Harvard Asia Center, 2011), and The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2022.  She is also co-editor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana University Press, 2016), and of a special issue of Open Rivers Journal (2017).  Ruth is Principal Investigator and Project Director of the World Historical Gazetteer, a prize-winning digital infrastructure platform for integrating databases of historical place name information.

Shellen Xiao Wu is professor and L.H. Gipson Chair in Transnational History at Lehigh University. Her new book, Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China (Stanford University Press, 2023) traces the global history of the frontier in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on China.

Her first book, Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920 (Stanford University Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 2015), argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.

Wu has received fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, the Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies, Fulbright, and the Mellon Foundation. She has published articles in Nature, The American Historical Review, International History Review, and other leading journals in history, history of science, and Asian Studies.

Stefan Tanaka is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Throughout his career he has inquired into the uses of pasts and time in the writing of history, especially in Japan. This inquiry has led to three monographs, Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (1993), New Times in Modern Japan (2004), and History without Chronology (2019, Open Access). He has also written several essays on historical narrative and digital media (for example, "The Old and New of Digital History," History and Theory [2022]). His current work explores what kinds of histories and understandings are possible when history is liberated from absolute (or classical) time.

Timothy Fritz is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Mount St. Mary’s University. He is a historian of race and religion in the Atlantic World whose work examines the memory of resistance to slavery in the eighteenth-century American South.

Dr. Kerry Ward is Associate Professor of History at Rice University. Her publications include: Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company (Cambridge 2009) and The New World History (2016). She edited The Journal of World History 2016-2019.

Dr. Candice Goucher is Professor Emerita of History at Washington State University. She is authoring “Gendering Food in World History” (Routledge 2026). She published Vol.2 of the Cambridge World History: A World with Agriculture; and Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food (Routledge 2014)

Dr. Laura J. Mitchell is associate professor at UC Irvine, where she teaches African and world history. She is the editor of the Journal of World History, and Past President of the World History Association. She is the author or co-author of five books, including The New World History (2016) and Panorama, A World History (2015).

Tracey Rizzo is a Professor of History at UNCA. She is the co-author of Intimate Empires: Body, Race and Gender in the Modern World (OUP 2016) and is the editor of Routledge’s “Gendering Modern World History” book series. She is co-authoring “Gendering Revolutions” (Routledge 2026)

Dr. Aldo Garcia-Guevara is Professor of History at Worcester State University. He contributed to Anti-Racist Community Engaged Principles: Principles and Practices (2023). His courses include Latin American History, World History, and Latino History. He is co-authoring “Gendering Revolutions” (Routledge 2026).

Dr. Suzanne Litrel is under contract with Routledge to publish “Gendering Friendship in Modern World History.” She is a co-editor for World History Connected and co-author of Notable Women of Colonial Latin America and Notable Women of Modern Latin America (2019). A former high school teacher, she has taught World History and Latin American History at Georgia State and Kennesaw State.

Trevor R. Getz is Professor of African and World History at San Francisco State University and President of the World History Association

Urmi Engineer Willoughby is an Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College. Her research focuses on histories of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective. She is part of H/21, a collaborative project of the WHA that supports college and university faculty by offering free, inquiry-based, and student-centered learning materials. Her first book, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) was awarded the 2017 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history. Her current project, titled Cultivating Malaria: The Historical Ecology of Fever in Early America, is an environmental and cultural history of malaria in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.