The University of Pittsburgh will soon be home to a new research center that will challenge the notion of history as a single past, using massive amounts of data and voices that are often left out of textbooks to explore places around the world across time and contexts.
Directed by Ruth Mostern, professor of history in Pitt’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Spatial History Innovation (ISHI) will be the first of its kind. It is set to launch in July.