Apr 2016

The University of British Columbia

Faculty of Arts Research Award

This grant will support a conference at Harvard University in October 2016 on the role of non-permanent Security Council members in global governance.

Mar 2016
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada

Connection Grant

Received award for a student to research in Nanjing, China under my supervision.

Mar 2016
Mitacs Canada

Mitacs Globalink Research Award

Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund Grant

Nov 2015
Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia

International Travel Grant

German Marshall Fund of the United States : Fellow, Transatlantic Academy

Harvard University Center for History and Economics : Visiting Fellow

Harvard University, United Nations History Project : Project Coordinator

American History Association : Member

Changing the Rules of the Game: Strategic Institutionalization and Legacy Companies' Resistance to New Media

The Natural History of the News: An Epigenetic Study

How Not to Build a World Wireless Network: German-British Rivalry and Visions of Global Communications in the Early Twentieth Century

Imagined Use as a Category of Analysis: New Approaches to the History of Technology

Introduction to Special Issue on "The Governance of International Communications: Business, Politics, and Standard-Setting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"

The Savior of the Nation? Regulating Radio in the Interwar Period

Editorial - Communicating Global Capitalism

Political and Economic News in the Age of Multinationals

'The Telegraph and the Bank': On the Interdependence of Global Communications and Capitalism, 1866-1914

Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905-1945

Journalistic Statesmanship: Protecting the Press in Weimar Germany and Abroad

The Creation of European News: News Agency Cooperation in Interwar Europe

The Path to Freedom? Transocean and Wireless Telegraphy, 1914-1922

Peace through Truth? The Press and Moral Disarmament through the League of Nations

Heidi Tworek is Assistant Professor of International History at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on communications, international organizations, and transatlantic relations. She has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is currently completing a book, provisionally entitled News from Germany: The Project to Control World Communications, 1900-1945, as well as co-editing a handbook of global business history and a volume on media and international organizations. Tworek also manages the United Nations History Project (www.unhistoryproject.org), the leading website on the history of international organizations. She previously held the position of Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in the History Department at Harvard University. Tworek has held visiting fellowships at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Birkbeck, University of London, the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and the Centre for Contemporary History in Germany. She received her BA (Hons) in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and earned her PhD in History from Harvard University. Her dissertation received the Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history. She was one of twelve UBC faculty whose work was featured for the UBC centenary in 2015. Tworek writes for newspapers and magazines in English and German including The Atlantic, Politico, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has also spoken on BBC radio and NPR.

News and Media

International Relations

International Organizations

Legal History

Germany and Europe

Higher Education

Global History

Business History

Transatlantic Relations

Transatlantic Politics

Academia Profile

UBC History Profile

Transatlantic Academy

The German Marshall Fund of the United States : The European Union Clashes With Google Over Copyright

The German Marshall Fund of the United States : Approaching Trump

Transatlantic Academy : Political Communications in the "Fake News" Era: Six Lessons for Europe

Transatlantic Academy : Why Germany Might Take a Maple Leaf from Canada’s Book

Was Deutschland von Kanada lernen kann: Die Trump-Diplomatie (What Germany Can Learn from Canada: Trump Diplomacy)

Women at the United Nations

Unpicking the United Nations

Why the History of News Explains its Future

What Can One Photo Tell Us about the Media and 2016?

The Secret Press Agent: How Journalists and Spies Learned Their Craft

Canada’s Middle Power Project Takes Flight: The International Civil Aviation Organization and the World of Mass Tourism

Communicable Disease: How the League of Nations Used Information to Prevent Epidemics

The Politics of Paper in the Early Weimar Republic

A Redivision of Labor: Wireless and Radio Broadcasting across Borders in the 1930s

Assistant Professor of History

http://heymancenter.org/events/brexit-before-and-beyond/
Brexit  Conference December 1-2, 2016

​On June 23, 2016 a slim majority of the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union by national referendum. The reasons that led to this historic vote, ending forty-three years of UK membership in the EU, are still being widely debated, as are the potential ramifications. This two-day event brings together journalists and scholars from European and American universities to uncover both the underlying issues that precipitated the UK's decision to separate from the EU as well as the ongoing fallout from the "Brexit" vote, especially for those of us working in global universities. 

 Panel 3: Post-Brexit International Relations

Heidi Tworek (Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund, Washington DC, 2016-17, and Assistant Professor in International History at the University of British Columbia), “Brexit and the English-speaking World”

Stefan Froehlich (Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy and a Professor for International Politics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), “Strategic Implications of the Brexit”

Brexit Panel 3

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