NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Summer Seminar for Teachers
PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN WORLD HISTORY, 1450-1925
Director: Edmund Burke III
(History / University of California, Santa Cruz)
June 29-July 24, 2009
The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host a summer seminar directed by Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950″.
The Summer Seminar on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950″ will explore the history of the world economy from 1450 to 1914, through a study of the leading commodities in each historical era. During the seminar, participants will develop a “commodity biography” or work on their own projects. The seminar is primarily intended for classroom teachers of world history, although others with a strong interest in teaching the history of world economy via commodities are warmly welcome.
About the director: Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III is Professor of History at UCSC, where he directs the Center for World History. http://ucsc.edu He has worked with classroom teachers for a decade, and was co-director of “World History for Us All,” an NEH-funded initiative for world history in middle and high schools. Other faculty are Steven Topik (History/UC Irvine) and Pedro Machado (History/Santa Clara University).
Participants in the four week seminar receive a $3200 stipend, which is meant to help cover travel, housing and food costs during the seminar. Participants will be housed on a shared basis in faculty apartments on the UCSC campus. For further information on the application process, see the NEH website at: http://www.neh.gov//projects/si-school.html
For more information on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1914” go to: http://cwh.ucsc.edu/NEHseminar.
Prof. Burke can be reached at (831) 459-2287 or by email at NEHseminar@ucsc.edu.
Completed applications should be postmarked no later than March 2, 2009 and sent to:
NEH Seminar 2009
HAS, Humanities Bldg.
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
