Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III is Professor Emeritus of History at UC Santa Cruz and a director of the UCSC Center for World History. Between 2003 and 2007, he was the holder of a Presidential Chair at UC Santa Cruz, where he has taught world history for more than 40 years. He directed the highly successful 2009 NEH Summer Seminar for teachers, “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1925.” He has also directed two NEH Summer Institutes for College Teachers – one in summer 1995 (“Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History, 1500-1750″), and one in summer 1998 (“The Environment and World History, 1500-2000”).
Burke has worked with classroom teachers for more than a decade, and was one of the co-directors of an NEH-funded initiative for world history in middle and high schools, “World History for Us All (WHFUA).” The outcome of a three-year collaboration between scholars of world history and seasoned classroom teachers, WHFUA produced a comprehensive model curriculum for teaching world history from early times to the present. It can be viewed at http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/.
In addition to the director, the faculty of this seminar includes Steven Topik, (Professor of History, University of California, Irvine), and Pedro Machado (Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington).
Professor Topik is the author of several books on coffee in the world economy, as well as the editor (with Kenneth Pomeranz) of The World That Trade Created, a widely used supplementary text in world history courses. He will join us in Week 3 to introduce the coffee story, and provide an alternate perspective on the role of trade in world history. )
Professor Machado is an expert on the history of handloom cotton production in India, and the place of Indian cottons in the East African economy from the eighteenth century to the present, and will join our group in Week 4 to share his work on the history of cotton handloom producers in western India, and the development of an export market to East Africa that dates to the fifteenth century.
