News & Events
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Glenda Sluga named President and Heidi Tworek Vice President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation
The Toynbee Prize Foundation is honored to announce that the Board of Trustees has unanimously confirmed Prof. Glenda Sluga as the Foundation’s next President and Dr. Heidi Tworek as its Vice President.…
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Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper win 2023 Toynbee Prize
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper have been named the joint winners of the Toynbee Prize for 2023. The Toynbee Prize Foundation recognizes the value and importance of collaborative work in global history,…
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VIDEO—2021-2022 Toynbee Prize Lecture: Kenneth Pomeranz, “Finding, and Hiding, World History on the Frontiers of Qing China”
The 2021-2022 Toynbee Prize Winner Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago) delivered the Toynbee Prize Lecture at the AHA on February 25, 2022 on “Finding, and Hiding, World History on the Frontiers of…
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Call for Editors-at-Large
We welcome applications for the position of Editor-at-Large from graduate students and advanced undergraduates. We are especially interested in students working on or located in the Global South…
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Review—Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America
Tuffnell, Stephen. 2020. Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America. Oakland: University of California Press. Reviewed by Henry Jacob, University of Cambridge In a 2006 interview, Sven Beckert lamented that…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for applications for the first annual Toynbee Early Career Scholar Book Workshop Competition
Credit: New York Public Library Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition 2022: Call for Applications The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support early career scholars in global history at…
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Building Scholarly Communities in the Time of COVID: Fieldnotes from the Indian Ocean World Podcast
By Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi When COVID-19 turned the social world upside down, scholarly connections and conversations became restricted or altogether severed. Like other graduate students and academicians, I lost many opportunities to…
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What We’re Listening To: Global History Podcast Holiday Edition
Credit: Nylon Magazine By Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery Dear readers, I created this global history holiday ‘best podcast’ playlist for historians and history-lovers around the world who are stuck at…
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Doctoral Opportunity in Global History at University of Bern
The research group “Anticipations and Disruptions of the ‘Synthetic Age’: Rubber, Science and Resources” is inviting applications for one doctoral position (100%, yearly salary of 47’040 CHF). Starting date: 1 April 2021…