Who We Are

Andrew H. Cohn is a partner in the Real Estate Department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. He is an associate member of the Environmental Department and the Bankruptcy and Commercial Department. He serves on the Real Estate Capital Management Committee and is co-chair of the firm's Energy Group. He is a former chair and member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Cohn was a fellow at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, a Russell Sage Foundation fellow in law and social science, a teaching fellow at Harvard University and a research fellow at University College in Nairobi, Kenya.

Raymond Grew
Raymond Grew is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan. The author of books and articles on the modern history of France and Italy, he was editor of the international quarterly, Comparative Studies in Society and History from 1973 to 1997, remains on its board, and has written often on the use of historical comparison. A participant in the global history initiative almost from its inception, his related publications include his essay in Mazlish and Buultjens, eds., Conceptualizing Global History; a review essay on World Historians and Their Goals in History and Theory, 34:4 (1995); "Seeking the Cultural Context of Fundamentalisms," in Martin Marty, ed., Religion, Ethnicity, and Self-Identity: Nations in Transition (1997); "Comparing Modern Japan: Are There More Comparisons to Make," forthcoming in 2002; and two volumes he edited: Food in Global History (1999) and, with André Burguière, The Construction of Minorities (2001).

Akira Iriye
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Martin Klimke
Martin Klimke received his M.A. in History and English from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is currently a Research Fellow at the History Department in Heidelberg, working in a joint research project sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation with Rutgers University, NJ. His work concentrates on the intercultural dimension of global protest in the 1960s with a particular emphasis on West Germany and the U.S.
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Krishan Kumar
Krishan Kumar is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Central European University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the universities of Bergen, Bristol, and Colorado (Boulder), and a visiting lecturer at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Delhi. Among his publications are Prophecy and Progress (1978), Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Time (1987), The Rise of Modern Society (1988), From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society (1995, new ed. 2004), 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001), and The Making of English National Identity (2003). His current interests are in historical sociology, specifically revolutions, nationalism, empires, and identities. He is also preparing a general work on historical sociology.

Bruce Mazlish
Bruce Mazlish, Professor of History Emeritus, MIT, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Mazlish's areas of interest and expertise are Western intellectual and cultural history, with a special nod to history of science and technology, the culture of capitalism, and history of the social sciences. He is also an authority in the interdisciplinary field of psychohistory as well as historical methodology; most recently he has spearheaded an effort to conceptualize global history (editing a volume by that name which appeared in 1993), and has led the effort to further conceptualize and institutionalize global history by means of international conferences and other related initiatives, including the NGH web site. With Professor Akira Iriye, he recently edited a Reader in Global History for Routledge.

His most recent publications are: The Uncertain Sciences, The Fourth Discontinuity, The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, and A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1986 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize, an international award in social science.

Dominic Sachsenmaier
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Wolf Schäfer
Wolf Schäfer, Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has authored books and articles on social history, history of technoscience, and global history. From the clashing of educated and uneducated thinking in social movements to the cross-fertilization of science and technology in technoscientific networks, he has combined specialized historical studies with a theoretical interest in the writing of history. His approach to contemporary history is driven by the notion that connections between human, social, and natural scientific disciplines are of vital importance in a time of global intercourse between humans and Earth.
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Peter N. Stearns
Peter N. Stearns was named Provost of George Mason University effective January 1, 2000. He also regularly teaches courses in world history and social history. Stearns received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and previously attended Harvard College. He has taught at Harvard, at the University of Chicago, at Rutgers University (where he chaired the New Brunswick History Department), and Carnegie Mellon University, where he was Heinz Professor of History. He served as Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1992 to 2000. Past Vice President of the American Historical Association, in charge of the Teaching Division. Stearns currently serves as chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee. He founded and continues to serve as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social History.

Author or editor of over 75 books, he has also published widely on world history and on related teaching issues, including several texts and readers, thematic books on industrialization, on gender, and on consumerism; and a new book, Western Civilization in World History, will appear later this year.

Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi is  Assistant Professor of Sociology, teaching Social Theory at UMass Boston. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology (in conjunction with a graduate certificate in Middle Eastern studies) from SUNY-Binghamton and a B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley. His fields of theoretical specialization include Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology (including New Global History), Sociology of Knowledge, Social Movements, and Comparative Utopistics. Tamdgidi's research and teaching are framed by an interest in understanding how personal self-knowledges and world-historical (especially new global) social structures constitute one another. His continuing research on liberating social theory in self and world-historical contexts is pursued via critical comparative/integrative explorations of utopian, mystical, and scientific (utopystic) discourses and practices. Tamdgidi is the editor of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-knowledge, and founder of the teaching/research project Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research (OKCIR) in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science. He is also Associate Editor of "The Discourse of Sociological Practice," journal of the Department of Sociology, and a co-founder of the annual Social Theory Forum conference series, at UMass Boston. Home page (http://www.okcir.com)

Kenneth Weisbrode, Research assistant to Professors Iriye and Mazlish on a number of projects, has agreed to serve as web master of the NGH site, taking over from Martin Klimke, and also serves as the managing editor of New Global Studies.

New Associates:

Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, Professor of Anthropology and Dean, The University of Michigan-Dearborn (see further her paper in the Globalization and Childhood Conference, reprinted on this web site).

Jennifer Cole, Professor and Member of the Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago.

Mary Jane Deeb, Curator of the Middle East collection at the Library of Congress, and former editor of the Middle East Journal. Conversations have been started as to a possible collaboration on a Globalization and the Middle East project.

Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Princeton University, and now Professor at the Center for Globalization and Internationalism, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Paula Fass, Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley.

Mark Juergensmeyer, Director Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Stephen Mennell, Professor of Sociology, Dublin University, Ireland. Editor, Figurations (Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation).

Craig N. Murphy, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College, author of a number of books related to globalization, and currently engaged on a History of UN Development efforts.

Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of International Relations at Boston University.

Dennis Smith, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University, UK. Editor, Current Sociology.

S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Nitze School-SAIS, John Hopkins University, and Rector for the newly forming Central Asian University. The latter is a tremendously exciting and innovating project. Starr is also interested in the Mapping the NGOs project.

Jeremi Suri, Assistant Professor in History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose specialization is in international history and American social movements. His book, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente, was published by Harvard University Press in 2003.

Reed Ueda, Professor of History at Tufts University, with various publications in the areas of migration history and American history, currently editing (with Mary C. Waters, Professor of Sociology at Harvard) The New Americans (Harvard U. Press) and The Companion to American Immigration (Blackwell).

Joshua Yates, Fellow at the Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia. His research interests fit closely with those of the NGH initiaitive.