Category: Interviews
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Global Ukrainian Studies in the Making: An Interview with Serhii Plokhy
It is only in the past decade that Ukrainian history has begun to be researched in the context of international or global history. The American…
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Unexpected Guests? The Soviet Union and the History of Global Capitalism: An Interview with Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Capitalism versus Communism. To many, the latter half of the twentieth history was deeply shaped by the confrontation between these two ideological and socioeconomic systems.…
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Youth, God, and Empire: Interview With Dr. Joy Schulz
With young activists like Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, and Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez coming to the fore of headlines and social movements, the present has proven…
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Seleucid Global? Time and Empire in the Hellenistic Near East: An Interview with Paul J. Kosmin
In 311 BCE Seleucus Nicator staged a triumphal return to Babylon. Following the death of Alexander the Great, Seleucus had been one among the emperor’s…
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‘It’s Not Rocket Science’: Nuclear Disasters in and beyond the Soviet Union—An Interview with Kate Brown
“About 50 deaths.” This was the long-standing consensus held by scientists and worldwide audiences on the death toll caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.…
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The Institution of International Order: An Interview with Simon Jackson and Alanna O’Malley
With some people becoming increasingly concerned about the attacks on the liberal international order and others questioning whether such a thing actually exists or has…
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Cossacks and Columbus: An Interview with Yaroslav Hrytsak
In 2018, German-Ukrainian Historical Commission organized a seminar in Nizhyn, Ukraine for young researchers. The topic was transnational and global perspectives of Ukrainian history from…
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Thinking Global in Turkey: An Interview with Trustee Selçuk Esenbel
Looking at academic calls for papers and conference topics in recent years, there can be no doubt that global history is on the rise. However,…
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From Istanbul to Tokyo: An Interview with Eric Tagliacozzo
Professor Tagliacozzo is Professor of Modern Southeast Asian History at Cornell University. Courtesy of Eric Tagliacozzo In 2018, over 2.3 million people went on hajj,…
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Elites Connecting Eastern and Western Europe: An Interview with Dina Gusejnova
The beginning of the twentieth century was a turbulent period for Europe as it emerged from the First World War, with a revolution in Russia,…