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Promoting critical research & teaching about human communities in motion & the forces that have shaped our global past & present. Bluesky: @whcpitt.bsky.social

Joined October 2017
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There is still time to apply for this year's Alliance for Learning in World History workshop! #worldhistory #k12education #Pitt #teacher
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Tomorrow at 10am! We still have a few copies of the book if you want to grab one at the event.
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Ramadan Mubarak! Join us tomorrow at 3:30pm in the History department lounge for our kickoff event of the Global Islam series! @LakhousAmara @PittGSC
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Less than two weeks left to apply to our 2026 professional development workshop for K-12 educators! Learn more at: worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/a…
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Faced with 12-hour shifts and brutal wage cuts, what would you have done? Join us this Thursday, February 19 at 4pm in the History Department Lounge (Posvar 3703) for an immersive simulation of worker democracy!
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If you are feeling cooped up by the snow and the cold, join us this Thursday at 2pm for this fun game play history event! Co-sponsored with @PittASC
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Spring Travel & Research Funding Application now open! All graduate students and faculty in the Dietrich School are eligible. Apply by February 9, 2026. More info: tinyurl.com/634df2m6
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Check out our spring calendar! As requested: more history gaming events (now with live play!), talks about fiction, AI, Islam, Revolutions, and more.
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The WHC and @PittASC are hiring a two-year postdoc in Japan in World History to begin on Aug 1, 2026. Apply at tinyurl.com/whcpostdoc
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Our second game night of the year! Come for pizza & games, stay for the history.
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Excited for this research roundtable on the history of aging around the world, part of a two day workshop organized by award winning historian Alissa Klots. Catered lunch provided! Generously supported by @PittASC @PittGSC @CLASPITT and @PittREEES
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11 Nov 2025
What does aging look like around the world? Join @WHCPitt for a conversation that spans continents. "Growing Old in the Modern World: A Roundtable," moderated by Alissa Klots & Elizabeth Mulvaney, on Mon, Nov 17, 1:30-3pm, 4130 Posvar Hall. Read more calendar.pitt.edu/event/the-…
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Are you a gamer? A historian? Both? Come join us for our first game night today at 4:30pm today with Pitt historians Dr. Alaina Roberts and Dr. James Hill!
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Welcome back! We are kicking off the semester with the first of our #globalpittsburgh series. Join us on 9/5 for a special roundtable discussion on the history of industrial sites and heritage preservation in Pittsburgh and Japan. Images from @PittArchives
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Join us next Tuesday 10/29 for "From the 1921 Quota Acts to the Trump Wall. ‘Replacement’ thinking then and now, from a global perspective" a talk by @Leolucassen! RSVP here: forms.gle/Fg7b1ZmVykouSWdb6 👇for more details!
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We are thrilled to share “Pedagogy in an Age of Religious Nationalism” a video featuring 5 scholars sharing strategies for fostering constructive classroom experiences. This project was supported by @PittProvost Year of Discourse & Dialogue! Learn more: bit.ly/3zbm31j
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WHC Director @RuthMostern dropped in for an episode of @iskme's @EdutobeHuman podcast & talked w/ host @lpetrides about the significance of place and space in the historical understanding of ourselves and our environments. Check it out: worldhistory.pitt.edu/news/w…

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3 Sep 2024
Ep. 3 of our @edutobehuman #podcast is live today. Host @lpetrides speaks w/historian @ruthmostern about @whgazetter and explores how our understanding of history, culture and identity is tied to our perceptions of place and how we view the world educatingtobehuman.org/the-p…
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The Center is pleased to share our Fall '24 calendar of events & activities which includes our thematic series "Silence in the Narrative: The Politics of Absence in Accounts of the Global Past." We hope to see you this semester! worldhistory.pitt.edu/fall-2…
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19 Jun 2024
Action shot from this afternoon's seminar by @kgeographer on the World Historical Gazetteer. @UOP_SEGG
Speaker explaining the system on a projdcted screen.

ALT Speaker explaining the system on a projdcted screen.
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Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social@RuthMostern
20 Jun 2024
I'm so delighted to share this news! As always this would be impossible without @kgeographer (and now @docuracy as well), along with Ali Straub, Jesse Obert and everyone at @WHCPitt . Please publish your historical place data with us!
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