Meet the Editorial Team

The General Editors:

Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Harvard University, USA and a past president of the American Historical Association. He has specialised in the history of international relations with a focus on Asia-Pacific affairs. Some of the notable titles he has published in the field of modern world history include: Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World, University of California Press, 1997 and Cultural Internationalism and World Order, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Pierre-Yves Saunier is a researcher with the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique in Lyon, France. He is the Co-Editor of a collection entitled Another Global City: Historical explorations into the transnational municipal moment 1850-2000, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. His main current interest is for the history of inter-governmental and non governmental organizations, including philanthropic foundations and his current research focus is on the world of nursing and the history of conversations that develop about nurses and nursing as a profession, from the mid 19^th to the mid 20^th century.

They have published extensively in modern world history and collaborated on a number of transnational history projects including the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series.

The Associate Editors:

Jane Carruthers, an internationally acclaimed scholar of environmental history, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Africa and is currently President of the South African Historical Society. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia. She has published extensively in the field of environmental history and her book The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History, University of Natal Press, 1995, has become a standard reference work.

Donna Gabaccia is a Professor of History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books and articles on immigrant life in the USA and Italian migration around the world including From the Other Side: Women, Gender and Immigrant Life in the United States, Indiana University Press 1994 and Italy’s Many Diasporas, Routledge, 2000. She edited the special issue “Gender and Migration” of the International Migration Review, Blackwell in 2006.

Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern China (2000), A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World (2004), for which he was named Young Academic Author of the Year by the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Modern China: A Very Short Introduction (2008). He has also written for publications such as History Today, the London Review of Books and the Financial Times.

Mariano Plotkin is a member of the Consejo Nacional de Investigacions Científicas y Téchnicas, and a researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social in Argentina. He is also a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. He has edited several volumes on topics related to the history of psychoanalysis and of social sciences and is the Co-Editor of The Transnational Unconscious, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Patrick Verley is Professor of International Economic History at the University of Geneva and has previously taught economic history at the University of Paris I and the University of Paris 8. His research mainly focuses on the 19^th century. His publications include Entreprises et entrepreneurs du XVIIIe siècle au début du XXe siècle, Paris, Hachette, 1994; L’Echelle du monde. Essai sur l’industrialisation de l’Occident, Paris, Gallimard 1997; La Révolution industrielle, 1985, Gallimard, 1997.

The full list of contributors can be seen here.