2025-06-28 –, Mezzanine C
This panel is a workshop led by the H/21 Project (History for the Twenty-First Century), a collaborative project of the World History Association. The presenters will discuss the project goals and open-access resources available to world history instructors, and then lead an interactive workshop to demonstrate practical examples of course materials that college and university instructors have successfully implemented in introductory world history courses. Audience members will have the opportunity to practice using H/21 learning materials and consider various ways in which they might implement these lessons in their classes. This panel will also showcase evidence of successful outcomes of these lessons, based on surveys and studies conducted by the H/21 team.
World history, pedagogy, student-centered learning, course materials, survey, open-access
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.