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Patrick Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. He served from 2008 to 2015 as founding director of the World History Center, located in the Department of History and affiliated with the Global Studies Program and the University Center of International Studies. Trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa, he has become a specialist in world history overall. His research has focused on demographic history (African slave trade), social and cultural history of francophone Africa, global migration, African diaspora as a dimension of global history, and an overview of the field of world history. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology (BS in Chemistry, 1963) and the University of Wisconsin - Madison (MS in History and Economics, PhD in History 1969). Manning now directs the Collaborative for Historical Information and Analysis (CHIA), for work on creating a world-historical data resource. He is also president of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research and international exchange in world history. His current research centers on creating a global historical data resource, African populations 1650-1950, global social movements 1989-1992, and on an interdisciplinary history of early humanity in collaboration with Christopher Ehret. Manning was at Northeastern University for two decades before moving to the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. He directed the World History Center from 1994-2004, and directed PhD students writing world historical dissertation. He served as Vice President of the Teaching Division of the American Historical Association from 2004-2006 as well.
Major Publications
- Big Data in History (Palgrave Pivot, 2013)
- Migration in World History, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2012). With Tiffany Trimmer.
- Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations (Routledge, 2011). Co-edited with Barry K. Gills.
- Migration History in World History: Multidisciplinary Approaches(Brill, 2010)
- The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (Columbia UP, 2009)
- Global Practice in World History: Advances Worldwide (Markus Wiener, 2008)
- World History: Global and Local Interactions (Markus Wiener, 2005)
- Migration in World History (Routledge, 2004)
- Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
- Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000, CD-ROM (Wadsworth, 2000)
- Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour (Variorum, 1996)
- Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental and African Slave Trades (Cambridge UP, 1990)
- Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1985 (Cambridge UP, 1988), 2nd ed. 1999
- Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 (Cambridge UP, 1982)
Websites
- World History Center: www.worldhistory.pitt.edu
Comprehensive center for research, graduate study, and institutional growth in
world history. I direct the center. - Alliance for Learning in World History: www.alliance.pitt.edu
National collaboration for curriculum and professional development in world
history, headquartered at Pitt and UCLA. I am chair of the Steering Committee,
2014-2015. - Collaborative for World-Historical Information: www.chia.pitt.edu
International collaborative to build a world-historical Archive, supported by the
National Science Foundation. I direct the project. - Journal of World-History Information: jwhi.pitt.edu
I am co-editor, with Ruth Mostern (Univ. of California – Merced) and Vladimir
Zadorozhny (Univ. of Pittsburgh).