The World History Association

03/14/2026

Should we wonder if this is what some folks consider global awareness?

03/11/2026

The World History Association will be launching its new and much-improved website around March 20! Be on the lookout for a new and improved interface.

WHA 2026: Closed Borders and Global Connections: Being Global after Globalization The WHA will be hosting the 35th WHA Annual Meeting in Incheon, Korea, from 25- 27 June, 2026, co-sponsored by George Mason University Korea. Please visit the conference website for more details! Conference Website New...

09/25/2025

Submissions for the 2025 Dissertation prize are due next week on 1 October, 2025. To be eligible for the 2025 prize, the dissertation must have been defended as part of Ph.D. or equivalent degree between the dates of 31 August 2023 and 21 August 2025. Eligible candidates are allowed to submit once, not multiple years. The deadline date for submissions is October 1, 2025. Apply here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/WorldHistoryAssociation/WHADissertationPrize

09/11/2025

The WHA is excited to announce the Call for Papers for our next conference to be held in Incheon, Korea, June 25-27, 2026. Find the full CFP and submission information on our conference website: https://thewha.org/conferences/korea-wha.html.

To accommodate people's schedules, we have decided to implement rolling acceptances for our 2026 conference:
- 1 December, 2025: Early submission deadline with notice of acceptance by mid-December 2025
- 1 March, 2026: Standard submission deadline with notice of acceptance by mid-March 2026
[Image: Incheon Grand Bridge, by Cameron Henderson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0]

04/14/2025

It's not too late to register for today's Monograph Workshop co-sponsored by the WHA and Bloomsbury! We'll walk you through the process of turning your PhD thesis or dissertation into a successful book proposal.

April 14, at 12:30 ET/16:30 UTC

Register for free:

This workshop will focus on revising a PhD thesis into a monograph and how to write a good book proposal for an academic press. The workshop will be led by Maddie Holder, the Senior Commissioning Editor for History at Bloomsbury.

04/10/2025

Calling all graduate students & early career scholars: The WHA with Bloomsbury are hosting a virtual workshop on revising PhD theses into monographs and writing successful book proposals on April 14, 2025 at 12:30pm EDT/16:30 UTC

Register Here: https://members.thewha.org/event/bloomsbury_monograph_workshop_2025

This workshop was designed in service of our Bloomsbury-WHA Diversity in World History Prize, though participation in the monograph prize is not required for attending the workshop.

Find more information about the prize here: https://www.thewha.org/wha-awards/bloomsbury-wha-monograph-prize/

03/03/2025

On January 30, 2025, the WHA Officers and Council considered and affirmed a Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. The resolution responds to the dire situation facing the teaching, learning, and documentation of history in Gaza.

See full text here: https://members.thewha.org/page/resolution

Following WHA procedure, we submitted the resolution to a vote of the entire membership of the WHA from February 18-25, 2025. The vote passed with 83% of participants in favor of the resolution, 13% opposed, and 4% abstaining.

Therefore, the resolution is affirmed as a measure of the WHA.

In order to ensure that only members participated in the vote and that each member cast only one vote we used ElectionRunner, the same secure online voting software that we've used for our last two Council elections. You can see the results here: https://vote.electionrunner.com/election/HW26l/results

01/06/2025

In general meetup fashion, we forgot to take photos until after people started leaving our informal gathering last night, but the WHA officers had a great time talking to other scholars!

We're wrapping up at the conference today, but Thanasis Kinias and Morgan Lemmer-Webber will be around this morning if you want to catch up and learn more about our upcoming conference or WHA membership!

01/05/2025

WHA officers , Thanasis Kinias, and Morgan Lemmer-Webber will be at P. McDaid’s Irish pub tonight at 7pm. If you're at the conference we'd love it if you stopped by for conversation and perhaps a drink!

The pub is on 7th and 54th, roughly a block from either of the conference hotels: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oL8b82aehJ5uEYJN8

01/04/2025

The WHA will be at the Affiliate Societies table at the conference today from 1-2 in the Exhibit Hall directly next to the AHA booth. Stop by to chat with our officers!