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of the AME Zion Church in Great Barrington and bat- the World History Association (1998–2000) and the first
tling to save the town’s architectural treasures as a mem- recipient of the American Historical Association’s Bev-
ber of the Historic District Commission (locally known eridge Family Teaching Prize. Heidi lives and teaches in
as the “Hysterical Commission”). Aspen, Colorado. Some of her former world history stu-
dents now climb Everest, speak Chinese, and travel the
J. R. McNEILL is Professor of History in the School of world as writers, actors, computer programmers, teach-
Foreign Service at Georgetown University and holder ers, doctors, and engineers. Others are still in Aspen,
of the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and where they ski, raise families, and energetically continue
International Affairs. He is the author of Something New to make Aspen a special place to live.
Under the Sun:An Environmental History of the Twentieth-
Century World, which won a few modest prizes. Eric JUDITH P. ZINSSER is Professor of History and affil-
Hobsbawm judged it “the most original history book” he iate in Women’s Studies at Miami University (Ohio), a
had read in 2000, while others noted its failure to pro- displaced New Yorker living in southwestern Ohio. She
vide “market-based solutions” to the world’s problems or is a former president of the World History Association,
to acknowledge that ecological apocalypse is upon us. having become a world historian when she was devel-
He is co-author with William McNeill of The Human Web: oping curriculum for the United Nations School and for
A Bird’s-Eye View of World History. He was born in the International Baccalaureate. She has written on
Chicago in 1954, educated at Swarthmore College and women and gender in a world history context for Wom-
Duke University, and lives agreeably if frenetically with en’s International Forum, the World History Journal,
his triathlete wife and four powerful forces of entropy— and the Journal of Women’s History. Among her books
a daughter and three sons. His eccentricities include a taste are A History of Their Own:Women in Europe from Pre-
for blues from the 1950s, Greek food, and an unfath- history to the Present, coauthored with Bonnie S. Ander-
omable attachment to the hapless Chicago White Sox. son (2nd ed., 2000) and A New Partnership: Indigenous
Peoples and the United Nations System (1994), commis-
HEIDI ROUPP is the director of world history programs sioned by UNESCO. A History of Their Own remains the
to establish the field of world history and support the only narrative history of European women and has been
work of school and university educators.These National translated into German, Italian, and Spanish; the New
Endowment for the Humanities programs include twenty- Partnership is one of the few studies of indigenous
seven summer institutes, three university program models issues in a worldwide context. Her current project is a
for pre-service teachers at California State University, biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet (1706–1749),
Queens College, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she is the French translator of Newton’s Principia,
and the World History Network, a website for teachers. for Viking Penguin. Zinsser was surprised to discover
She is the founder and Executive Director of World His- that the challenges of writing about just one woman are
tory Connected: The E Journal for Learning and Teaching as daunting as any she had to face, as a world historian,
[www.worldhistoryconnected.org]. Heidi was president of trying to write and teach about all women and all men.