This week, the World History Association (WHA) gathers for its 34th Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY. This year’s theme is: Protest, Prohibition, & Pugilism: Louisville & the World.
The Journal of World History offers this accompanying special collection, “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past” free on the Project MUSE platform. Select World History titles will also be 30% off from July 1 through Sept 30, 2025.
The 11 articles selected by Emily De La Torre, June Bofetiado Tanner, and Laura J. Mitchell in “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past” provides accessible resources for scholars and teachers worldwide, with content freely available through September 2025.

The trio introduces this free special issue in their introduction, “Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past”:
“[W]as such a thing as a global measure for human perfection even conceivable?” asks Sebastian Conrad, plunging headlong into an exploration of aesthetics. Can something understood as individual, relative, and locally contingent also be a useful category of analysis for world history? If a British observer in the 1750s considered a Muslim woman wearing şalvar (baggy trousers) in Istanbul to be beautiful, but an English woman wearing the same clothes in London to be shocking, can aesthetics offer a productive theoretical entry point for considering connections and disruptions across space and time? The papers in this year’s open-access special issue drawn from the Journal of World History’s backlist answer these questions with a hearty, collective “Yes!”
Explore the special issue
Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past
Emily De La Torre, June Bofetiado Tanner, Laura J. Mitchell
The “Material Turn” in World and Global History
Giorgio Riello
Women’s Fashions in Transition: Ottoman Borderlands and the Anglo-Ottoman Exchange of Costumes
Onur Inal
Consuming Kashmir: Shawls and Empires, 1500-2000
Michelle Maskiell
Weaving the Rainbow: Visions of Color in World History
Robert Finlay
Globalizing the Beautiful Body: Eugen Sandow, Bodybuilding, and the Ideal of Muscular Manliness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Sebastian Conrad
World History Titles – 30% Discount
Starting July 1 through September 30, get 30% off select World History titles, including ones in the Perspectives on the Global Past series. Use coupon code WHA2025.
Learn more about the WHA conference here.
Journals: Journal of Daoist Studies, Journal of World History, Pacific Science + more

Journal of Daoist Studies
Volume 18 (2025)
Zhuangzi’s Self-Concept in the Context of Cognition
Woojin Jung
Jia Yi’s Rhapsody on an Owl: An Exercise in Daoist Self-Consolation
David Chai
Magical Realms in Folktales: Comparing East and West
Nada Macig Sekulic
The Immortal Zhou Fuhai: Hagiography and Community Building in Pure Yang Daoism
Georges Favraud
The Legacy of Wudang Master Guo Gaoyi
Jeffrey S. Reid
Xing and Ming: Innate Nature and Life-Destiny in Daoist Cultivation
Michael Rinaldini
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Journal of World History
Volume 36, Number 1 (2025)
The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement at Macao in 1557
Bin Yang
Oceanic Wahhabism
Nicholas P. Roberts
“Why Doest Thou Thus?”: Providence and Discourses of Difference in Two Nineteenth-Century Missionary Lives
Kelly Cross Elliott
Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe*
Marleen Reichgelt and Felicity Jensz
The Japanese Eye on Latin America Through The Japan Times, 1926–1941
Pedro Iacobelli and Ignacio Enei
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Pacific Science
Volume 78 Number 2 (2024)
Phylogenetics Confirms a Unique Instance of Endemicity in a Polyphagous Hawaiian Moth Pest and Uncovers a Remarkable New Species
Kyhl A. Austin and Daniel Rubinoff
Genetic Composition in Populations of the Endangered Hawaiian Shrub, Schiedea adamantis St. John (Caryophyllaceae) and the Importance of Ex Situ Collections
Theresa M. Culley, Ashley Kuenzi Davis, Susan N. Ching, Stephen G. Weller, and Ann K. Sakai
A Synopsis of the Genus Jacquemontia (Convolvulaceae) in the Indo-Pacific With the Description of One New Species
G. Staples, Jean-François Butaud, and David A. Halford
From the Pasture to the Present: The History of Grass Introductions in Hawai‘i
Kevin Faccenda
Insights Into Ungulate Distributions Show Range Expansion, Competition, and Potential Impacts on a Sub-Tropical Island
Derek R. Risch, Jason Omick, Shaya Honarvar, Hailey Smith, Brendan Stogner, Mackenzie Fugett, and Melissa R. Price
Indo-Pacific Eels (Anguilla marmorata) From the Caroline Islands Belong to the Micronesia Population Based on Total Number of Vertebrae Counts
Shun Watanabe, Michael J. Miller, Tomoki Honryo, and Pierre Sasal
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Philosophy East and West
Special Feature: The Prospects, Problems, and Urgency of Global Intercultural Philosophy Now
Volume 75, Number 1 (2025)
Global Philosophy, Positionality, and Non-Relativist Perspectivism
Ralph Weber
Fazang’s Mereology as A Model For Holism
Felipe Cuervo Restrepo
Libertarianism, Hard Determinism, and Epoché in Indian Buddhism
Giuseppe Ferraro
The Sublime Extends to Chinese Aesthetics
Jonathan W. Johnson and Robert R. Clewis
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Volume 67 (2025)
Osaki Midori: The World of Wandering in the Realm of the Seventh Sense (Part 3) 尾崎翠・ 「第七官界彷徨」 の世界
Mizuta Noriko, Wachi Yasuko, and Jennifer Cullen
Through the Oral Histories of Okinawan Women: Gendered Experiences of Migration and Settlement in Argentina after the Pacific War 沖縄人女性のオーラル・ヒストリー−ジェンダーの観点から見た戦後アルゼンチンにおける移住と定住の経験
Mariana Alonso Ishihara
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Journals: Buddhist-Christian Studies, Journal of Korean Religions + More

Buddhist-Christian Studies
Volume 44 (2024)
Editors Thomas Cattoi and Kristin Johnston Largen introduce this issue:
[T]he articles in this issue include several that offer a variety of perspectives on the thought of Thich Nhat Hanh for the sake of a more peaceful and just world. Another article examines whether and how certain interpretations of Theravāda Buddhist doctrines can lead to racist practices and policies. Yet another article looks at the current realities of Buddhist chaplains in the United States, both what they can offer in terms of a unique perspective on spiritual care and also the ways in which they are discriminated in a system that has been so dominated by Christian practitioners. And this is only the beginning. We hope that you will enjoy the breath of perspectives—scholarly, reflective, and practical —evidenced by this issue’s outstanding authors.
Find these articles, review, news and views and more at Project MUSE.

Journal of Korean Religions
Volume 15, Number 2 (2024)
Religion and Contentious Politics: Korean Catholicism and the Early 1980s Democracy Movement
Jung Soo Jo
A Re-examination of Cho Soang’s Thinking on Yuksŏnggyo
Chai Lin and Xing Liju
Korean Spirit-writing Scriptures Based on Wenchang Belief in the 19th Century
Kim Youngyeong
Women and Monastic Families in Colonial Korean Buddhism
Jeongeun Park
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Journal of World History
Volume 35, Number 4 (2024)
Get It in Writing (If You Can): Regulating Foreign Communities in Tokugawa Japan
Matsukata Fuyuko and Joshua Batts
Globality Without Mobility: Ephemera, 1830s–1860s
Laura Nenzi
Polynesia against Paris: Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literature and the French Colonial Origins of Oceanian Reintegration
Jeffrey Ryan Harris
Pan-Asian Decolonization? Iranian Oil, Japanese Tankers, and the Nisshomaru Incident of 1953
Mikiya Koyagi
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Philosophy East and West
Volume 74, Number 3 & 4 (2024)
Being Taken for a Ride: Social and Technological Externalist Complements to the Internalist Reading of Buddhist Chariot Similes
Tom Hannes and Gunter Bombaerts
Examining the Ex(Im)plicit Qualities in Japanese Spatial Atmosphere through Haiku 俳句 and Haiga 俳画 Examples: The Layer of Narration
İlke Hiçsönmezler
Facing Uncertainty: The Philosophy of Divination in the Xici 繋辭
Tze-ki Hon
Of Stones and Horses: Reading the Gōngsūn Lóngži in Terms of Concrete Universals
Lisa Indraccolo
Heidegger and Zhuangzi: Conversations about the Vanity of Morality and the Fasting of the Heart
Alexis Y. Lavis
On The Possible Redundancy of the Third Noble Truth
Joshua Rust and Christopher Bell
Three Revisionary Implications of Buddhist Animal Ethics
Calvin Baker
The Sanjaya Myth: Sanjaya Belatthiputta and the Catuskoti
B. Jack Copeland and Syed Moynul Alam Nizar
“You Are a Puzzle-lock”: A Heideggerian Analysis of Perplexity in Nāz Khayālawī’s Sufi Poem
Bharatwaj Iyer
A Tale of Two Owens: Xiao 孝 as Trusting Others to Know Who You Are
Sai Ying Ng
Watsuji Tetsurō’s “Climate” and its Kyoto School Critics
Kyle Peters
Calligraphy as a Symbol System
Matteo Ravasio, Jiachen Liu, and Ye Zhu
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Journals: Biography International Year in Review, Journal of Burma Studies Contribution to Pyu Studies + more

Biography
Volume 46 Number 1 (2023)
International Year in Review
Shame, Trauma, and the Body After #MeToo: The Year in Australia
Emma Maguire
Micro Life in Macro History: The Year in China
Chen Shen
Vientos de cambio: El año en Colombia
Gabriel Jaime Murillo Arango
Did We Forget about Climate Change during the COVID-19 Pandemic?: The Year in Denmark
Marianne Hoyen
Responsibility and Confronting the Holocaust in Memoir: The Year in Hungary
Gergely Kunt
Autobiographical Verse, Demythologizing Motherhood: The Year in Lebanon
Sleiman El Hajj
Find these articles and the Annual Bibliography of Works About Life Writing at Project MUSE.

Journal of Burma Studies
Special Issue: Five Contributions to Pyu Studies
Volume 28, Number 1 (2024)
Studies in Pyu Epigraphy II. Pyu Inscriptions on Molded Tablets: A Way Forward?
Marc Miyake and Julian Wheatley
Chinese Reports about Buddhism in Early Burma
Max Deeg
The “Hidden Hand” Orchestrating Communal Violence: Peacekeeping through Contested Framing in Central Myanmar, 2011–2021
Nathaniel J. Gonzalez
Monthly Observation Research by Community Researchers: Coping with Dangerous Situations and Multiple Crises in Postcoup Myanmar
Aredeth Maung Thawnghmung and Su Mon Thazin Aung
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Journal of Daoist Studies
Volume 17 (2024)
An Integrated Theory of Happiness: The Yang Zhu Chapter of the Liezi
Devin Joshi
Mystery upon Mystery: Wang Bi on the Meaning of Xuan 玄
Alex T. Hitchens
Lingzhi: Mushrooms, Immortality, and Order
Ezra Kohn
Personal Quest and Anomic Events: Conversions to Daoism in Late Imperial China
Jacopo Scarin
The Dao of Dialogue: Daoism, Psychology, and Psychotherapy
Elliot Cohen
By Name and by Nature: Two Stories of People Named Unattractive in Daoist and Rabbinic Literature
Aryeh Amihay and Lupeng Li
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Journal of World History
Volume 35, Number 1 (2024)
Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra- and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937
Bernard Z.Keo
Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century
Anjuli Webster
Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood
Sophie-Jung Hyun Kim
Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship,” 1945–1959
Kenzo Okuda
The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration
Wensheng Wang
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Mānoa
Here was Once the Sea: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Writing
Volume 35 Number 2 (2023)
Guest Editors Rina Garcia Chua, Esther Vincent Xueming, and Ann Ang discussion their vision with this unique collection of writing:
This anthology represents a chorus of offerings, first and foremost to the land and the sea, and second to you, our readers, as an invitation to attend to the urgencies and travails of our homes. On the one hand, while the anthology is comprised mostly of anglophone texts, which reflect the aspirations of regional writers to speak across borders and to the globe at large, the English of these pages is inhabited by meanings and associations that make the language our own. This can be seen in the use of indigenous names of plants and places in the works of Annisa Hidayat, Diana Rahim, and Mohamed Shaker, or through rhymes and sounds in the poems of Natalie Foo Mei-Yi and Teresa Mei Chuc. At other times, the native language emerges like weeds, surprising and demanding to be noticed, as in Enbah Nilah’s use of Tamil, which persists as linguistic, cultural, and historical memory in a legacy of erasure.
Find this editorial note, poems, statements, art, and more at Project MUSE.
Journals: CHINOPERL, Hawaiian Journal of History, Journal of Korean Religions + More

CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
Volume 42, Number 2 (2023)
Emotion, Money, and Beauty: Variation and Innovation in the Story of Shuang Jian and Su Xiaoqing
Tianjun Chen
Becoming Awakened: Four Yue Opera Segments in Xie Jin’s Two Stage Sisters
Susanna Sun
Baihua Ting 百花亭(The Pavilion of One Hundred Flowers), An Anonymous Zaju Play, Part Ii
Shu-Chu Wei and Catherine Swatek
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality by Wei Zhang (review)
Janne Risum
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Filipino American National Historical Society Journal
Volume 11 (2023)
Remembering the Past, Living the Present, Planning for the Future
Dorothy Laigo Cordova
Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon Adobo Cook Off
Kay Dumlao Doherty
Maré Dawn is a Dr. Diva, Di Ba? In Memory of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (August 17,1972–August 10, 2018)
Emily Lawsin
OurSTORY Includes Indipinos
Holly Calica and Richard Vendiola
Queering Filipino American History: Exploring LGBTQ Filipina/x/o American THEIR/OURstories
Kevin Leo and Yabut Nadal
Naimas!: The Rise of Filipino Foodways in Hawai‘i
Shannon Cristobal
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Hawaiian Journal of History
Volume 57 (2023)
Territorial Whiteness on Display: Nathaniel Emerson’s Hawai’i Exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909
Travis D. Hancock
Travelers’ Observations of Land and Sea Creatures on Their Journeys to the South Seas, 1880s–1910s
Diana L. Ahmad
“Snapped Life Chords”: Problematizing the Execution of the First Koreans in the United States (1905–1906)
Seri I. Luangphinith
Hawaiian League Membership, 1887
Ronald Williams Jr.
Hawai’i History in 2022: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest
Jodie Mattos
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Journal of Korean Religions
Special Issue: Cross-cultural Currents of East Asian Buddhism in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Guest Editors: Sung-Eun Thomas Kim and Nam Lin Hur
Volume 14, Number 2 (2022)
Talismans ( pujŏk 符籍) for Rebirth in Chosŏn Buddhist Rituals and their Earlier Traces in China
Moon Sang-leun and Youn-mi Kim
Following in the Footsteps of Wŏnhyo: The Foundation and Development of the Haedong School in Koryŏ
Kwangyoun Park
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Journal of World History
Volume 34, Issue 4 (2023)
Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change
Daniel Hoyer
A Disdain for Deserts: The Sahara Sea Project and Climatic Modification in North Africa, 1864–1885
Tyson A. Luneau
A Failed Transplant: American Cotton in the Ottoman Empire
Ahmet Izmirlioglu
Diverging in Peace: (Inter)Religious Internationalism, Interwar Pacifism, and a World Conference that Never Happened
Michael Philipp Brunner
Toward Rangoon: Cold War Internationalism and the Birth of Yugoslavia’s Globalism
Robert Niebuhr, David Pickus, and Zvonimir Stopić
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World by Aisha Khan (review)
Andrew Kettler
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Oceanic Linguistics
Volume 62, Issue 2 (2023)
Split Inalienable Coding in the East Bird’s Head Family
Laura Arnold
Observations on Tagalog Genitive Inversion
Henrison Hsieh
Variation and Change in Jakarta Indonesian: Evidence from Final Glottals
Ferdinan Okki Kurniawan
When Sound Change Obscures Morphosyntax: Insights from Seediq
Victoria Chen
Lexical Evidence in Austronesian for an Austroasiatic presence in Borneo
Juliette Blevins and Daniel Kaufman
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Journals: New Research in Burma Studies, World History + Pacific Science

The Journal of Burma Studies
Volume 27, Number 2 (2023)
The new issue focuses on military dictatorship and migrationin 2021 in Myanmar. In this introduction Editor Jane S. Ferguson explains:
This issue offers a blend of research articles which are based on nuanced research and social analysis of everyday survival, law and development, and politics in the years leading up to the 2021 coup d’etat. These include issues of migration, whether to overseas work destinations or within Myanmar, the situation for education and its relationship with international donor organizations, the creation of work conditions within Myanmar’s Special Economic Zones, the organization of intensive banana agriculture for export in geographically contested areas, and finally an analysis of the political lead-up to the military coup.
Read more articles at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History
Volume 34, Number 2 (2023)
The new issue includes the following reviews and articles:
“From desh to desh“: The Family Firm as Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean
Hollian Wint
Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862–1869
Fredrick Walter Lorenz
“The Rifle is the Symbol”: The AK-47 in Global South Iconography
Brandon Kinney
Read more articles and book reviews at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History
Volume 34, Number 3 (2023)
The new issue features the following articles:
Chinese Volley Fire and Metanarratives of World History
Barend Noordam
Invulnerability and the Cartography of Resistance to Imperialism
Benjamin Lieberman
Samurai and Mongols: How a Medieval Samurai Became Chinggis Khan
Tatiana Linkhoeva
The Mexican Labor Movement and the Global Scripts of Revolution, 1910–1929
Stephan Fender
China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940
Melvin Barnes Jr.
Read more articles and book reviews at Project MUSE.

Pacific Science
Volume 76, Number 4 (2022)
Population Size and Habitat Occupancy by the Endangered Mariana Crow
Robert J. Craig
Low Genetic Diversity in the Highly Morphologically Diverse Sida fallax Walp. (Malvaceae) Throughout the Pacific
Mersedeh Pejhanmehr, Mitsuko Yorkston, and Clifford W. Morden
Ingestion of Plastics in a Wild Population of the Pacific Fat Sleeper (Dormitator latifrons)
Fernando Isea-Leeón, Juan Diego Quispe, Alexandra Bermúudez-Medranda, Vanessa Acosta, Ana María Santana-Piñeros, Yanis Cruz-Quintana, Luz Marina Soto, Luciana Gomes-Barbosa, Luis Domínguez-Granda, and Carlos López
Evaluation of Reproductive Success of the Olive Ridley Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea (Testudinata: Cheloniidae) Using Different Incubation Treatments
J.L. Sandoval-Ramírez, and E. Solana-Arellano
Continuous Reproduction Causes Stable Population Structure of Antipatharian-Associated Shrimp Sandyella tricornuta (Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
Ariadna Ávilā-García, Carlos Sánchez, Leonardo Huato-Soberanis, Elizabeth Borda, and Jaime Gómez-Gutiérrez
A Survey of Terrestrial Vertebrates of Tetepare Island, Solomon Islands, Including Six New Island Records
Jenna M. McCullough, Lucas H. DeCicco, Mark W. Herr, Piokera Holland, Douglas Pikacha, Tyrone H. Lavery, Karen V. Olson, Devon A. DeRaad, Ikuo G. Tigulu, Xena M. Mapel, Lukas B. Klicka, Roy Famoo, Jonathan Hobete, Lazarus Runi, Gloria Rusa, Alan Tippet, David Boseto, Rafe M. Brown, Robert G. Moyle, and Michael J. Andersen
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Journal of World History seeks new editor
The Journal of World History, the official journal of the World History Association, published by the University of Hawai‘i Press and sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i History Department, is seeking an editor or a team of co-editors. The position will begin in January 2025, allowing a several month period of transition before the current editor, Matthew P. Romaniello, steps down from the position at the end of 2024. It will have an initial term of five years, renewable for three more.
Founded by Jerry Bentley and now in its 34th year, the Journal of World History publishes research into historical questions across any time period requiring the investigation of evidence on a global, comparative, cross-cultural, or transnational scale. It is devoted to the study of phenomena that transcend the boundaries of single states, regions, or cultures, such as large-scale population movements, long-distance trade, cross-cultural technology transfers, and the global spread of ideas. It is guided by an Editorial Board and an Advisory Board of scholars from around the world.
The responsibilities of the editor or co-editors will be:
- Defining editorial policy
- Overseeing and managing a rigorous review process
- Making final decisions on the acceptance and rejection of articles
- Editing articles accepted for publication
- Shaping the direction of the Journal
- Choosing and working with the Editorial Board
- Working with the University of Hawai‘i Press journal production staff
- Working with the journals’ two sponsors, the World History Association and the University of Hawai‘i History Department
- Attending the World History Association annual meeting
To apply, please send a cv and a letter of application to Aaron Peterka, Interim Director of the World History Association: info@thewha.org. The deadline for applications is August 1.
In your letter, please address the following:
- Your experience publishing, researching, and teaching in world history, and the way you see these as related
- Your previous editorial and administrative experience
- Your understanding of “world history” and the types of articles that belong in a journal dedicated to it.
- Your vision for the Journal over the next five years
- Your strategy for attracting high quality submissions, reviews of submissions, and book reviews from scholars diverse in terms of methodology, area of research, and institutional and geographic location
- Your plan for engaging with developments in scholarly communication and research practice
A small amount of funding for travel related to the Journal will be provided, but if you may be able to obtain institutional backing for the position, including course release, please indicate this in your letter as well.
Journal of World History Special Issue: Transnational Approaches to the History of Race and Racism – Free!
The World History Association will be hosting its annual meeting at the University of Pittsburgh’s World History Center from June 22 to 24, on the theme “ENERGIES.” The Journal of World History offers this accompanying special collection, “Transnational Approaches to the History of Race of Racism,” free on the Project MUSE platform through September 30. Select World History titles will also be 30% off from July 1 through Sept 30, 2023.
The special issue “Transnational Approaches to the History of Race and Racism” draws together some of the journal’s most frequently cited and downloaded material alongside some less well-known contributions. Together, these articles compare historic roles, debates, and struggles in relation to today’s trials and tribulations with race consciousness.

Editor Matthew P. Romaniello talks about this Special Issue in excerpts of his introduction, “Race and Racism beyond National Borders”:
Assembling a special collection of previously published articles has created an opportunity to engage with the legacy of Journal of World History. As with the first of these issues four years ago, I took the opportunity to review our “most downloaded” articles list from Project Muse. It has changed more than I expected – not only from the arrival of newly-published articles but also from articles published decades ago that have gained new prominence. One of those served as the launching point for this collection, Matthew Pratt Guterl’s “The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925,” a “top 10” article for 2022, though it was first published in 1999.
The renewed interest in race and racism is hardly unique to Journal of World History, much less global audiences in this particular historical moment. However, looking to JWH for an article on racism in America may not be the first stop on anyone’s pursuit of more information on the topic. For much of its history, JWH only published a few articles with American content.
Research on race and racism, settler colonialism and anticolonial rhetoric, cosmopolitanism and “Orientalism,” involving global empires and modern nations, has regularly appeared throughout the journal’s history. The benefits of pursuing these topics through a transnational lens broadens our discussions and hopefully encourages more thoughtful engagement with their presence in our daily lives. The articles included in this collection highlight these themes in a variety of regions, offering original perspectives on the entangled debates of race and racism globally.
It should not come as any surprise to a reader of Journal of World History that the history of colonialism is fully entangled with racial hierarchies, much less that colonial and neocolonial policies imposed racialized systems, whether it imposed segregation or achieved assimilation. Neither supported equality. Nor did cosmopolitan lives, those people who crossed borders and interacted with foreign cultures, necessarily demonstrate greater understanding or compassion for diversity. This special collection does highlight that these challenges are not unique or specific to the United States, and, perhaps, we might inform our ongoing discussions of diversity, equality, and inclusion by considering other viewpoints and histories beyond our own borders.

Transnational Approaches to the History of Race of Racism
Table of Contents
“Race and Racism beyond National Borders”
Matthew P. Rominello
The Imperialism of Cultural Assimilation: Sir George Grey’s Encounter with the Maori and the Xhosa, 1845-1868.
James O. Gump
Gobineau on China: Race Theory, the ‘Yellow Peril,’ and the Critique of Modernity.
Gregory Blue
The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
An Orientalist in the Orient: Richard Garbe’s Indian Journey, 1885-86.
Kaushik Bagchi
Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris.
Rachel Gillett
White Anglo-Saxon Hopes and Black Americans’ Atlantic Dreams: Jack Johnson and the British Boxing Colour Bar.
Theresa Runstedtler
‘Town of God’: Ota Benga, the Batetela Boys, and the Promise of Black America.
Karen Sotiropoulos
Settler Historicism and Anticolonial Rebuttal in the British World, 1880-1920.
Amanda Behm
Students, Sex, and Threatened Solidarity: East African Bodies and Indian Angst, 1955-1970.
Timothy Nicholson
Learn more about the WHA conference here.
The World History Association will host its annual meeting in person, from June 22 to 24, on the theme “ENERGIES.” The Journal of World History offers this digital special issue “Transnational Approaches to the History of Race and Racisms” free on the Project MUSE platform through the end of September 2023. Select World History titles in will also be 30% off July 1 through September 30 with coupon code WHA2023.
Journals: Founders of Asian Theatre, a Comparative Study of Empire + More

Asian Theatre Journal
Volume 40, Number 1 (2023)
This new issue commemorates key individuals in Asian theatre. Editor Siyuan Liu explains:
This issue starts with two long-planned articles in ATJ’s ‘founders of the field’ series that started with two clusters of articles in 2011 (28.2) and 2013 (30.2), followed by a number of ‘founding mothers’ articles between 2014 and 2017 (31.1, 32.2, 33.2, 34.1), continuing in this issue with Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei’s profile of Betty Bernhard and Julie Iezzi’s article on Jonah Salz. Sorgenfrei focuses on Bernard’s extraordinary capacity in discovering and promoting aspects of Indian performance to the world through fundraising and sponsoring international engagements by India artists, students training and productions of India plays with Indian artists at Pomona College, as well as several research based films and videos, all of which made Bernard, as Sorgenfrei puts it, ‘an important influencer well before that concept became a social media meme.’
The second ‘founder’ article, written by Julie Iezzi, focuses on Jonah Salz, who stands out, in comparison to other founders profiled in this series, as a Western theatre director, producer, teacher, scholar, and translator primarily based in an Asian country, in his case Kyoto, Japan. Among Salz’s wide-ranging accomplishments, Iezzi focuses on his co-founded Noho Theatre Group that has produced hundreds of shows and toured internationally over forty years; his co-established Traditional Theatre Training (TTT) program that since 1984 has trained hundreds of artists in noh, kyōgen, and nihon buyō; and his research and publications, most notably as editor-in-chief of A History of Japanese Theatre, a monumental achievement via international collaboration.
Find more articles at Project MUSE.

China Review International
Volume 27, Numbers 3& 4 (2020)
The new double issue includes the following reviews:
Vincent Goossaert. Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History.
Reviewed by Gilbert Z. Chen
Susan Greenhalgh and Li Zhang, editors. Can Science and Technology Save China?
Reviewed by Robert Peckham
Li Guo. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction.
Reviewed by Jing Zhang
Dongfeng Xu. Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China.
Reviewed by Bin Song
Brook Ziporyn. Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings.
Reviewed by David McCraw
Find more reviews at Project MUSE.

Journal of World History
Special Issue: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire
Volume 34, Number 1 (2023)
In this new special issue Guest Editor Scott C. M. Bailey discusses the fascinating study of long-distance travelers during the late nineteenth century in this introduction:
This special issue addresses what can be gained from a comparative examination of long-distance travelers during the age of empire. Questions to address include: to what extent did the individual identities, personalities, and backgrounds of elite travelers relate to their opinions on the state of colonial or imperial affairs which they observed in their travels? Were imperial travelers’ observations representative of the imperial core’s opinions and assumptions about imperial spaces, including peripheral ones? To what degree did individual travelers who were traveling to destinations which were under the control of a rival imperial power provide descriptions or impressions which confirmed or rejected assumptions about the colonial or imperial relationship? Can travelers’ descriptions (those travelers from outside or competing empires) be used to provide an objective view of the nature of competing empires? How did factors like the occupations, educational backgrounds, class identifications, gender, life experiences, race, identity, or cultural backgrounds of individual travelers define or shape their descriptions? How did the purposes of these travels relate to the kinds of observations which were made? The articles in this special edition address these important questions, while also highlighting reasons why this era saw an increase in the volume and frequency of international long-distance travel.
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Journal of World History Special Issue: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire
A new special issue from the Journal of World History is now available to readers on Project MUSE.
This new special issue features guest editor Scott C. M. Bailey. Since 2018, Bailey has been fortunate to have support of a research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This has allowed him to explore the history of travel and exploration in a global context. He is now focusing on this topic in relation to the area around the Sea of Okhotsk and am preparing a book manuscript now on this topic.
We had the opportunity to speak to Bailey about this special issue:
University of Hawai‘i Press: Tell us how this special issue came together and why is this issue different from what JWH has published in the past?
Scott C. M. Bailey: My idea for this special issue originated in spring 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. As countries closed borders and international travel was drastically curtailed, it led me to think more about the history of long-distance travel. I wanted to understand better how the international movement of people for business, tourism, research pursuits, and many other reasons today, which has become so routinized (and was also so disrupted during the pandemic), existed in an earlier form in the late nineteenth century world.
I thought that a comparative global analysis of the accounts of travelers from the “age of imperialism” in the late nineteenth century could forward our collective understanding of empires of the time, while also shining light on the degree to which long-distance travel reflected inequalities while also being done to serve commercial and political elites’ interests. I was fortunate that the colleagues who approached me with their ideas for papers each had very interesting examples from their own research backgrounds to work with, and that they were all excited to explore their topics through a new comparative framework.

UHP: What were some of the challenges with this issue? Is the pandemic still an issue with the creation of these articles and research?
SB: The pandemic has of course made historical research more difficult in many ways, curtailing travel to some locations and restricting access to materials that need to be accessed in person. But to some degree the technological changes which the pandemic brought have helped make some research easier, since so many rare historical sources that could only be found in specific archives or libraries are becoming available to access online, as many institutions have moved or are moving towards digitization of their collections in the last few years. I think the pandemic has made us all adapt in many ways to the new circumstances, and our research has been in some ways strengthened by that. Regardless, I think most historians are happy that they can get back to in person research again. There’s no replacement for the unique experience of being in libraries and archives.
UHP: Is there anything that is not to miss in this volume?
SB: I think when you read this collection of articles together, you will find that each of them highlights these issues well. This special issue will probably be very interesting for those in more traditional area studies backgrounds, too, since each article has a regional focus of sorts (although always with external/global examples to compare those regional examples with).
UHP: Is there anything else you would like our readers to know?
SB: I hope that readers will continue the work that our authors in this special edition have done with employing a comparative lens to the study of late nineteenth century travel. As I mention in my introductory piece for the special edition, I think that there is potential for many more studies that take a similar approach, given the high volume of existing travel accounts from that era. I hope some will be inspired by this collection to locate aspects of their own research topics that could benefit from taking this kind of comparative approach. I would be very pleased to read future articles in the Journal of World History which take this comparative approach to exploring the relationships between empire and long-distance travel.
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Volume 34, Issue 1
Table of Contents
Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire
Scott C. M. Bailey
Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British
West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914
Alex Goodall
Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław
Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge
in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890s
Darius Kołodziejczyk and Igor Iwo Chabrowski
Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and
Revolution: Kawata Masazō’s Late-Nineteenth-Century
Pacific World
Catherine l. Phipps
Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions
in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909
Matthew J. Schauer
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Journal of World History: Remembering Jerry H. Bentley (1949-2012)

Shana J. Brown and Kieko Matteson of the Department of History at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa honor Jerry Bentley in the following 10-year remembrance published in Journal of World History Volume 33, Number 4:
Founding editor of the Journal of World History Jerry Bentley, who passed away a decade ago at far too young an age, left an indelible legacy in the field of World History. Co-author of a highly popular world history textbook, Traditions and Encounters (written with Herbert F. Ziegler and published by McGraw-Hill, now in its seventh edition), Jerry wrote convincingly of how history from a global perspective could advance human understanding by highlighting the dynamism of cross-cultural interactions and demonstrating the mutual influence of world societies in shaping processes of historical change.
Trained at the University of Minnesota as a specialist in the history of Early Modern Europe, Jerry authored two fine monographs on Renaissance scholarship and statecraft before finding his calling in the then-emerging field of World History. Jerry shifted gears when asked to teach the University of Hawai‘i’s introductory survey course in World Civilization, as it was then titled. He accepted the assignment with aplomb, bringing a Renaissance humanist’s understanding of text, context, and sociopolitical relations to bear as he worked to wrangle what had been a largely chronologically framed narrative into a compelling thematic interpretation of the intersections and interdependence of human societies over time. Seeking to improve the available curriculum and teaching texts, Jerry reached out to friends and colleagues who found themselves similarly eager to expand beyond nation-state frameworks. Together, they founded the World History Association in 1982 to facilitate dialogue about World History pedagogy, foster scholarship, and stimulate the development of methodological frameworks for the emerging sub-discipline. As part of the association, Jerry inaugurated the Journal of World History in 1990 with a view towards publishing “articles on comparative and cross-cultural themes,” that would focus on multiple cultural regions; analyses of encounters between peoples of different regions; studies in the historiography and methodology of world history; and reflections on conceptualization and periodization.
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Journal of World History Vol. 33, No. 4
More from or about Jerry Bentley:
Volume 16, Number 1 (2005)
Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History
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Volume 9, Number 2 (1998)
Hemispheric Integration, 500-1500 C.E.
Jerry H. Bentley
Volume 23, Number 3 (2012)
In Memoriam: Jerry H. Bentley: (December 9, 1949–July 15, 2012)
Karen Jolly
Journal of World History
Volume 25, Number 4, (2014)
Special Issue in Honor of Jerry H. Bentley
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