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Journey to the West & Prester John

Preventing Deadly Conflict: Toward a World Without War 

Katheryn Twiss is a graduate student in Archaeology at U. C. Berkeley. Her work focuses on the anthropology of food and zooarchaeology in the Neolithic Near East.

As'ad AbuKhalil is a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and a research associate with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley.

Beshara Doumani (Islamic law in the Arab Middle East)

Sener Akturk received his bachelor's degrees in Political Science and International Studies, and his master's degree in International Relations, both from the University of Chicago.

Javier Alvarez-Mon holds degrees in Art History, Near Eastern Archaeology, and Ancient Religions, from the School of the Louvre (Paris), The Jesuit School of Theology, and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley (California), a

ROBERT ALTER is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.

LAURA W. ALLEN received her Ph.D. in Japanese art history from U.C. Berkeley in 1989.

CINDY AUSEC was born and raised in California.  After graduating from high school, she entered the U.S. Army, where she was trained as a German linguist and spent four years in Germany.  After army service, she earned a B.A.

CATHERINE CENIZA CHOY is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches courses on Asian American history, Filipino American Studies, and contemporary U.S.

TIMOTHY ABDELLAH FUSON completed his Ph.D. in Music at U. C. Berkeley and is both a scholar and performer.

Richard Abrams is a professor emeritus of history at U. C. Berkeley. His expertise is in modern U.S. history, government-business relations, political economy of industrial societies, and the history of deregulation.

Nick Bartel taught two years with the Peace Corps in Micronesia, then worked for 37 years with the San Francisco Unified School District, interspersed with work in Korea, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and a refugee camp in Thailand.

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton California and Director of Food Studies at the San Francisco campus.

Jo Ann Conrad is a folklorist who has researched in the field of narrative, specifically the Fairy Tale.

Esther Clinton is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. She received her Ph.D.

Beverly Bossler is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on gender and social history, particularly the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Rainer F.

Maren Anderson studied Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a focus in Tropical Marine Ecology at University of Colorado at Boulder.

JoAnn Conrad is a professor of Anthropology and Folklore at CSU East Bay. Her research focuses on narrative theory, gender, embodied knowledge, and the relationship between affect and the senses.

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Alex Locust is counselor, community organizer, and champion of disability justice.

Martin Eiermann is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on social movements, populism, and the history privacy in the United States. 

Elena is a volunteer for Conversations with the Courageous (CwC), a group of HongKongers and allies that raise awareness of and support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement through human interacti

Kristie Flannery grew up in Sydney, Australia.

History courses are peopled with the prestigious, the wealthy, the powerful.

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 "From Gaza I travelled to the city of Abraham [He

Curated Calendars of Events for Educators

Professional Development for Educators: Focus on Education and Teaching

Empire building has been a prominent thread in human history since ancient times.

ORIAS helps teachers globalize their course materials.

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Our chosen topic, Migrations and Diasporas, seems particularly fitting given the current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean region.

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Between 1998 and 2000, ORIAS held a series of teacher institutes at UC Berkeley on the theme of teaching pre-modern history through literature.

Learn to use film more effectively in your classroom.

What can material culture tell us about the past?

2016 Community College Summer Institute, Women in World History:

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"I arrived ... at the city of Cairo, mother of cities ...

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"When the afternoon prayer

"At every halt the Turks loose their horses, oxen

Fulbright-Hays Groups Projects Abroad: Morocco 2017

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Why Study Mithila Painting?

There are dozens of federally funded National Resource Centers (NRCs) at universities around the

What is the Online WH Cohort?

ORIAS Summer Institutes invite educators to be students again.

2019 - 2020 San Francisco and East Bay Books

Architecture: Space, Power and Community

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Modern technologies enable young students to observe and - in some ways - participate in pop culture from around the world. What is pop culture and where does it come from?

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“THROUGH TRAVEL I FIRST BECAME AWARE OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD; IT WAS THROUGH TRAVEL THAT I FOUND MY OWN INTROSPECTIVE WAY INTO BECOMING A PART OF IT.” – EUDORA WELTY

 "Our stay at al-Madina ...

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How have societies historically viewed the role of information technology from cuneiform tablets to social media? What conditions fostered innovation in industrial and military technology and what were the social consequences? Why did technologica

Travelers’ tales are older than writing itself and have lost little of their popularity over time. For historians, travelers offer unique insights into cross-cultural exchange, as well as interpretive challenges.

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Side Trips will give you some historical background about

This site was created with flexibility in mind. Listed below are a number of options for site-related projects and activities. Each of the possible activities helps students meet one or more of the following goals:

Look below for recent news and application deadlines for travel opportunities.

Art production for public display has been a component of every historical era.

Teachers in ORIAS World History Reading Groups read one book each month within a global studies theme. Participants meet monthly to eat and spend two hours in collegial conversation.

Alan Karras
Facilitator

2015