Category: Interviews
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Policing the “Slums of the World”: A Conversation About Exporting American Police Expertise with Stuart Schrader
As Americans debate their choice of President, enthusiasm for long-term ground wars in the Middle East seems at an all-time low. Both candidates debate the…
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Anti-Westernism in Question: An Interview with Cemil Aydin on Pan-Asianism, Pan-Islamism, and the Idea of the “Muslim World” in History
The centrality of anti-Westernism as a subject of global debate is underlined with every new terrorist attack on the West today. Both the attack on…
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Making the Pilgrimage to the “Mecca of Revolution”: A Conversation with Jeffrey James Byrne on Algerian Internationalism and the Third World
Revolution, what revolution? In the spring of 2011, protests and revolutions rocked much of North Africa and the Middle East. Improbably, the immolation of a…
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Thicker Than Water: Revisiting Global Connections on the Banks of the Suez Canal with Valeska Huber
Thanks to the haze of time, the first great age of globalization during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can sometimes seem like a…
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Who Is Responsible? An Interview with Tracy Neumann on “Remaking the Rustbelt” and the Transnational Fortunes of Post-Industrial America and Canada
Pittsburgh, in case you haven’t heard, is on the rise. But don’t take it from us. The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked Pittsburgh as the…
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De-Segregating International Relations: A Conversation with Robert Vitalis on “White World Order, Black Power Politics”
If you’ve been following the news about race-related campus protests this academic year, it can sometimes be hard to keep them straight. In the autumn,…
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How Did Water Connect the World? An Interview with David Igler on Pacific and Environmental History
The Pacific is an area largely understudied by historians, yet it is “an ocean covering more than a third of the Earth’s surface” and has…
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Global History as Past and Future: A Conversation with Sebastian Conrad on “What Is Global History?”
It’s a common question that teachers of global history face. We belong to one of the most quickly-moving, contested, and changing subfields within the historical…
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The Emancipators: A Conversation with Amalia Ribi Forclaz on The Politics of Anti-Slavery Movements and European International History
When did slavery end? For American or British readers of the Global History Forum, the answer to this question, at least answered within the framework…
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Putting the Margin in the Center: Discussing Transnational and Australian History with Professor Fiona Paisley
Fiona Paisley was born in Scotland, but she received her university training in Australia. Based in Brisbane, Australia, she is currently a Professor in the…