Grants, Contracts and Awards
The World Historical Gazetteer project has been made possible by a 3-year Preservation and Access grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (2017-2020, PW‑253719‑17).
It is also supported by in-kind contributions from the University of Pittsburgh World History Center.
Development of Version 2 in 2021 was generously supported by the KNAW Humanities Cluster in the Netherlands.
The Asian Studies Center at Pitt is supporting development of the Teaching with WHG section of the site and the Place Collection feature introduced in v2.1
The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Pitt is supporting development of content for that broad region.
World Historical Gazetteer received the 2021 "Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools Award" from Digital Humanities Awards
Current Project Team
Ruth Mostern, Principal Investigator and Director of World History Center
Karl Grossner, Technical Director and Platform Developer
Susan Grunewald, WHC Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexandra Straub, WHC Research Associate
Patrick Manning, Project Consultant
Former Team Members
Ryan Horne, Associate, former Postdoctoral Fellow
David Ruvolo, Project Manager
Alec Story, Student Research Assistant
Owen Knight, Student Research Assistant
James Sauls, Graduate Student Research Assistant
Advisory Board
Clifford Anderson, Vanderbilt University
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University
Merrick Lex Berman, Independent Scholar
Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside
Tom Elliot, Institute for Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Ethan Gruber, American Numismatic Society
Leif Isacksen, University of Exeter
Katherine Hart, University of Pittsburgh, World History Center
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Leo Lucassen, International Institute of Social History (IISG), NL
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh
Adam Rabinowitz, University of Texas, Austin
Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine
Ryan Shaw, Univerity of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
Rombert Stapel, International Institute of Social History (IISG), NL
Richard Zijdeman, International Institute of Social History (IISG), NL
Technical Collabortors
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
Graham Klyne, University of Oxford
Richard Light, Free UK Genealogy
Arno Bosse, KNAW Humanities Cluster, NL
Merrick Lex Berman, Independent Scholar
Johannes Scholz, University of Graz
Content Community
The following people made important early data contributions to WHG. Discussions are ongoing with many, many others...
Werner Stangl, University of Graz (Latin America)
Tom Elliot, Institute for Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine (Africa)
Gimena del Rio Riande, University of Buenos Aires (Latin America)
Maxim Romanov, University of Vienna (Islamic World)
Masoumeh Seydi, KITAB (Islamic World)
The World Historical Gazetteer index contains information from Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)® which is made available under the ODC Attribution License.
