World History Association
Founded: 1982 Admitted to ACLS: 2011
The WHA supports and works to advance scholarship and teaching within a trans-national, trans-regional, and trans-cultural perspective. Through the researchers, teachers, students, independent scholars, and authors who are its members, the WHA fosters historical analysis undertaken not from the viewpoint of nation-states, discrete regions, or particular cultures, but from that of the human community. To this end, the WHA supports four different media for the dissemination of the most up-to-date scholarship and pedagogical advances in the field and sponsors annual public forums for the exchange and discussion of changing approaches to the study and teaching of world history at all levels. Moreover, as a founding member of the international Network of Global and World History Organizations (NOGWHISTO), which was admitted to full membership in the Comité International des Sciences Historiques (CISH) on 22 August 2010, it works with other associations across the globe to foster support for research and teaching in world history.
CEO Representative and Society Contact
Kerry Vieira
Executive Director
World History Association
Delegate
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
term ends 12/31/2023President
Laura Mitchell
Associate Professor
University of California, Irvine
term ends 12/31/2021Membership:
Individual: 700
Meetings:
7/5/2021 - 7/11/2021 Virtual, *