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Faculty

Patrick Manning

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History
PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison (1969)
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3904 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA  15260

Phone 412-648-7478
Fax 412-648-9074
pmanning@pitt.edu
www.worldhistorynetwork.org/manning

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s)

World History, Africa and African Diaspora

Teaching

African History before 1800
Empire in World History (Major Seminar)
Atlantic Africa (Graduate Seminar)

Selected Publications

“Homo sapiens Populates the Earth: A provisional synthesis, privileging linguistic data.” Journal of World History (2006)

“Cross-Community Migration: A Distinctive Human Pattern.” Social Evolution and History (2006)

World History: Global and Local Interactions (Markus Wiener, 2005)

Migration in World History (Routledge, 2004)

Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (Palgrave, 2003)

Honors/Awards

Arts & Sciences grant, "World-Historical Database Design Group

President, World History Network, Inc., from 2004

Guggenheim Fellowship 1986-87

Project(s)

The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (in press). Early Humanity (in collaboration with Christopher Ehret): an interdisciplinary history of Homo sapiens from the earliest days through the establishment of agriculture.