Chicago's approach to international history considers the interaction of historical forces

across national boundaries and regions of the world. These interactions are very
broadly defined to include demographic, environmental, cultural, intellectual, and media
exchanges. They also encompass the more traditional canon of military, political, and
economic interactions. National identities and regional affiliations are examined from an
international, transnational, or global perspective. 

The strengths of Chicago are its genuinely global coverage of international interaction,
its interrogation of the local articulation of global forces, and its openness to
interdisciplinary approaches from the humanities and social sciences to inform more
capacious and original approaches to historical problems. Among the issues of central
interest to our faculty and students in international history are regional East Asian and
Latin American history, the United States and the world, gender, colonialism, and
postcolonialism, modern war, genocide, human rights, humanitarianism, the world
economy, and the environment. 

Some Chicago historians are primarily concerned with international exchanges. Many
others incorporate international or transnational themes into their scholarship or
teaching. In addition, students can draw on the resources of the Center for International
Studies, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, the Film and Media Studies
Center, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Center for the Study
Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.

Some of Chicago students self-identify as international historians, but others see

themselves as students of national and regional history with a strong emphasis on
transnational and global processes. International history at Chicago offers a critical
cross-field intellectual haven for students interested in diverse geographical spaces but
with common intellectual concerns.