Globalizing Regional Studies Summer Seminar

American Historical Association Community College Humanities Association Library of Congress

Globalizing Regional Studies:
Crossing Intellectual, Institutional and International Borders: Strengthening Area Studies through World History PHASE I

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Phase I was a three-week summer seminar for community college faculty held at the Library of Congress in July 1999. During the seminar participants attended workshops conducted by leading scholars and undertook an original research project related to their college teaching and to curriculum development. In the academic year following the seminar, participants have been carrying out a variety of on-campus and national dissemination activities assisted by CCHA and AHA. Representatives of the partners in the Ford Project.

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Seminar co-directors were Jerry Bentley (University of Hawaii), Charles Evans (Northern Virginia Community College) and Les Vogel (Library of Congress). Guest scholars included John McNeill, Patrick Manning, Patricia Seed, James Tracy, Edmund Burke, Margaret Strobel and Stanley Katz.
Funding for this project is provided by the Ford Foundation.