Research

Candice Goucher is a member of the international Board of Editors for the Cambridge History of the World and Co-Editor (with Graeme Barker, Cambridge University) of Volume Two. The Cambridge History of the World will provide an overview of this dynamic field for scholars, teachers, and general readers. With nine volumes, it will be comprehensive, though not exhaustive. Like all good world history, it will include examples, including chapter-length ones, that provide some depth to go with the breadth of vision that is the distinguishing characteristic of world history. Using the development of agriculture as its central theme, Volume Two (12,000 BCE-400 CE) will begin with the Neolithic, but continue into later periods to explore the impact of agriculture around the world.

Candice has recently been appointed as Series Editor for a projected forty-volume series of key reference works in the field of world history to be published by Facts on File, New York.  The series will reflect the increasingly thematic approach to key issues in our global past. The series will be called Issues and Controversies in World History.

Candice also serves as a staff member of the Center for Columbia River History, a partnership between Washington State University, Portland State University, and the Washington State Historical Society. She is Project Director for the Globalizing Dams Project, which will include an international conference Reversing the Flow:  Big Dams, Power, and People in Global Perspective and photographic exhibition Remembering the Yangtze slated for Fall 2009.  

Her scholarly research spans the African experience connecting West Africa and the Caribbean. Candice is currently working with the community organization Bluefields Peoples Association and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust to investigate the more than two-hundred-year-old history of blacksmithing in Bluefields, Jamaica.