Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Early Modern World

The center brings together a range of expertise to focus on the multiple historical traditions of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe — and on potent connections between them.

The term "Early Modern" designates the historical period of globalization, during which sustained interaction between different regions of the world occurred as a result of exploration or conquest and colonization. Transfers and exchanges of ideas, arts, technologies, and human populations between those regions are an important object of study: material and visual culture, performance, languages and literatures, systems of belief, and narratives of the past can all be viewed from diverse vantage points.