Diego Holstein

Fields

World History
Historiography

Teaching

Medieval Iberia
Medieval Europe
World History
Historiography

    Education & Training

  • PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002
    Awards
  • 2003-2004: Fulbright Program.
  • 2003-2005: Yad haNadiv (Rotschild) Fund.
  • 2005-2006: Faculty of Humanities Award for the Best First Book Published.
  • 2005-2008: Flegg Research Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researcher.
  • 2006-2007: Polonsky Prize for Creativity in the Humanities.
  • 2009-2010: George L. Mosse Program in History Fellowship.
  • 2019-2020 Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Global Issues, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
Recent Publications

Olstein, D. A Brief History of Now. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-82420-4#reviews

Olstein, D. 「歴史研究における『グローバル論的転回』の変革力ー個人的回想 In Ashiwa, Yoshiko and Lewis, Jonathan (Eds). Challenges of Global Studies; Critically and Radically. Tokyo: Sairyusya, 2021, pp. 117-129.

Olstein, D. (2019) “Brevísima Historia de la Globalización Más Larga.” In: Araújo, Erick Assis; Santos Jr., João Júlio Gomes dos (eds.). História Urbana e Global: novas tendências e abordagens. Fortaleza: Editora UECE, 2019, pp. 110-134. 

Olstein, D. (2018) “Eight World Historians.” In Weller, Charles (Ed.), 21st-Century Narratives of World History: World Historians in Global Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 339-346. 

Olstein, D. (2015) “Proto-globalization and Proto-glocalizations in the Middle Millennium.” In Kedar, Benjamin and Wiesner-Hanks, Merry (Eds.), Cambridge World History. Volume 5: Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conquest, 500-1500 CE. Cambridge University Press, pp. 665-684. 

Olstein, D. (2017) “Latin America in Global History: An Historiographic Overview”. Estudos Historicos, 30:60, pp. 253-272. 

Olstein, D. and Hübner, S. (Eds.) Preaching the Civilizing Mission and Modern Cultural Encounters. Special Issue of the Journal of World History. Volume 27:3, 2016. 

Olstein, D. Thinking History Globally. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137318145#reviews

Olstein, D. La era mozárabe: los mozárabes de Toledo (siglos XII y XIII) en la historiografía, las fuentes y la historia. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006. 

Research Interests

The History of Globalization
Geopolitics and Global Hegemony
Political Regimes