Who We Are
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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Bruce Mazlish
Bruce Mazlish, Professor of History, 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 is presently editing
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.
Elliott Morss
Dr. Elliott R. Morss is the President of The Asia-Pacific Group, a
British Virgin Island company established with Chinese partners to
transfer technologies from the West to Asia. Trained as an economist, he
has taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Boston
University, and Brandeis. He has worked in 43 countries, first for the
International Monetary Fund and later for the World Bank, the U.S.
foreign assistance program, and other donor organizations.
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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Mohammad H. Tamdgidi
M.H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at
UMass Boston (beginning Fall 2003), holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a
graduate certificate in middle eastern studies from Binghamton University
(SUNY). His areas of specialization and interest include Social Theory,
Self and Society, World-Historical Sociology (including New Global History),
Sociology of Knowledge, and Comparative Utopistics. Tamdgidi’s
central research agenda involves critically revisiting--in a self-reflective,
comparative world-historical, and applied sociological framework--the
theoretical and methodological underpinnings of western utopian, eastern
mystical, and global academic discourses and/or practices in favor of
the good life. He is particularly interested in exploring new developments
in utopistic discourse and practice in the context of new global history
as emergent in recent decades.
Tamdgidi has taught at SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Oneonta, is founder
of the virtual "Omar
Khayyam Center for Integrative Research (OKCIR) in Utopia, Mysticism,
and the Academy," and edits "Human Architecture: Journal of
the Sociology of Self-Knowledge."
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