Visualizing the History Project
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Starting in 2012 the History Project, a Joint Center for History and Economics initiative supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, hosted a program of small- to medium-sized research grants for graduate and advanced undergraduate students at institutions across the world. More than 130 grants have been awarded, encouraging work in and on a broad span of locations and topics, with a truly global reach.
The first two maps above visualize the institutional affiliations of the recipients of History Project grants from 2012 to 2016. The “Location at time of grant” and “Location in 2020” maps trace the grantees’ movements over time, in the initial years after their grant award. The former shows their home institutions at the time they were undertaking their research projects, and the latter updates their intuitional location as of Spring 2020; in many cases the scholars have moved after completing their graduate studies.
The third map, “Areas of Research,” shows the areas at the heart of the research the grantees were conducting. The points on the map represent the places, and people, the History Project grantees studied, rather than the locations of the archives used, although there are some areas of overlap. Summaries of the research projects are available here, with more details on the locations on which the projects are centered.
Map points are sized according to the numbers of scholars who researched a given location or were based at a given institution. Select a specific point on the map to learn more about the project(s) that corresponded to that location.