The World History Association is proud to announce the formation of a World History Speakers’ Bureau. The bureau has two purposes. First, the formation of a database of specialists is intended to aid universities, schools, and other interested organizations in easily locating potential guest speakers. The host agrees to pay for all of the speakers' expenses, plus offering a reasonable honorarium. Second, the speakers’ bureau will also serve as a fund-raising venture for the WHA. The speakers in the bureau have volunteered to donate the entirety of the honoraria they earn to the WHA. Utilizing the speakers’ bureau is a “win-win” situation for your institution or organization and the WHA. Please consider hosting one of the speakers at your school, university, or conference. 

Contact the potential speakers below with questions regarding their availability, suitability of a topic, and so forth. For questions regarding speaker fees, honorarium or other financial matters, contact the WHA HQ at thewha@hawaii.edu.

If you are willing to serve as a speaker, and would like to be added to this page, contact one of the organizers of the speakers’ bureau below:

Craig Lockard, Co-coordinator, (2011-2013), lockardc@uwgb.edu
Deborah Johnston, Co-coordinator (2011-2013), Deborah.Johnston@lakesideschool.org

The list below contains speaker names, email addresses, destinations to which they are willing to travel and subjects of expertise for your needs:

Speaker and contact email:                        
Subjects of Expertise:   
Willing to travel to:  Regional, National, International  (Yes, No or Maybe):
Traveling From which place:      

Andrea, Alfred J.             aandrea@uvm.edu
1) Holy War in World Hist; 2) The Crusades in World Hist; 3) Silk Road in World History     
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Burlington, Vermont
                               
Armstrong, Monty         montarm@me.com
1) Secondary World History, 2) AP World History              
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Cerritos, CA
                       
Bentley, Jerry                   jbentley@hawaii.edu
Theory, Methodology, Periodization, and other Topics as negotiated
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Honolulu, HI      

Cantrell, Phillip                               cantrellpa@longwood.edu
1) East African History, 2) Rwanda, 3) Role of the Church in Post-Genocide Rwanda         
Yes         Yes         Negotiable         
Farmville, Virginia           

Fenyo, Mario                    MFenyo@bowiestate.edu
1)Association of Third World Studies, 2) The Third World/South, 3) Developed vs. Developing, etc.
Perhaps               Perhaps               Yes        
BWI  - Baltimore, MD                     

Fisher, David                     David.Fisher@utb.edu 

Hubbell, Bram                 bramhubbell@gmail.com
1) Teaching World History, 2) AP World History, 3) Modern Middle East (esp. Israeli-Palestinian conflict)
Yes         Yes         Yes        
New York City                   

McKeown, Adam            amm2009@columbia.edu           
Please contact for more information on this speaker

Morillo, Stephen            morillos@wabash.edu
1) World Military History, including: a) Comparative warrior elites b) The global history of piracyCross-cultural warfare c) The socio-economic, political and cultural contexts of war    
Yes         Yes         Negotiable         
Crawfordsville, IN/Indianapolis Airport 

Neel, Carolyn                   cneel@abc-clio.com
World history.  Political and economic contacts between cultures.  The Britain/India/China economic triangle.  Modern or early modern China (Ming dynasty to the present),  China's trade and diplomatic relations around the time of the Jesuits to the Civil War,  The history of economic philosophy, and the cultural impact of contacts 1500 to present would be okay.  
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Westlake, Texas
               
Solberg, Ronald                               solbergeasycom@aol.com
Different aspects of our traveling salesman since colonial times (US History)       
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Chicago, IL                          

Spodek, Howard             spodek@temple.edu
1. Modern India, with special attention to urban development and to relationships among Hindus, Muslims, and others.  I have also done significant research on Gandhi.
2. Urban history, especially in the twentieth century.
3. The creation of the field of world history
Yes         Yes         Yes        
Philadelphia, PA                                              

Tishken, Joel E.                 Annual jtishken@wsu.edu
1) African Religions; 2) Africa in WH; 3) Theory & Teaching of World Religions; 4) Prophetic Movements 
Yes         Perhaps               Perhaps              
Pullman, WA/Spokane Airport                  

Voll, John O.                     vollj@georgetown.edu
1) Islam in WH (from generalized to specific topics, including pedagogical issues)              
Yes         Yes         Perhaps