As a member-supported organization, GUHP relies on member dues and donations to carry out our programs. GUHP members are eligible to vote in elections, serve in leadership positions, and apply for GUHP-sponsored awards. Members also receive free or reduced admission to GUHP events and conferences.
We recognize that not all members of the GUHP community are able to afford professional association dues, and we invite those who cannot pay at this time to join GUHP for free.
GUHP membership is for one year, expiring 12 months from the date you sign up.
| Income | Membership rate |
| Income above approximately $70,000 USD | $50 |
| Income between approximately $40,000-$70,000 USD | $35 |
| Income under approximately $40,000 USD | $10 |
| Cannot pay at this time | $0 |
Membership Benefits
GUHP is a Member-Supported Organization!
Beginning in 2019, the Global Urban History Project turned to its members for support by charging a modest fee for new and continuing membership. For those who are so inclined, the Project also appreciates additional annual donations, most notably to support GUHP’s Travel Award program and its new Mentorship Program.
All GUHP members, regardless of your current enrollment date, will receive annual messages asking you to renew your membership in the New Year and pay a fee based on your own assessment of your budget. Your membership fees will help support GUHP’s mission in the following ways:
- Build a fund to support our Travel Award Program that allows early-career scholars and scholars from under-represented or under-resourced scholarly institutions to attend GUHP-sponsored events.
- Provide small stipends to early-career scholars selected as participants in the Mentorship Program.
- Support an expansion of GUHP’s on-line publications such as “Noteworthy in Global Urban History” and the Global Urban History blog, as well as explore other venues for promoting work and delivering new ideas in the field to members and beyond.
- Organize GUHP events independently and in collaboration with other organizations.
- Work toward a goal of holding events on all inhabited continents of the world when this becomes possible.
- Help pay for an expanding, updatable, and searchable inventory of citations and personal profiles of members on the GUHP website.
Going forward, GUHP will remain a “Project” rather than a traditional “Association,” allowing us to be flexible and improvisational in the events we organize. While we may host larger, convention-style conferences like GUHP2 Berlin at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, GUHP will not commit to a fixed rotation of such events. Instead, we will schedule or co-sponsor events of various sizes and formats both on our own and in collaboration. In scheduling these events, we will take the dates of allied organizations’ meetings into account.
All members are encouraged to curate GUHP-sponsored panels — or series of panels — at other conferences that they attend regularly and that may benefit from GUH-related discussions. GUHP requires members to renew their membership annually in order to attend GUHP conferences. Those who do renew will become Full Members, entitled to vote in future GUHP elections, to join the Board of Directors and the International Advisory Committee.
To sustain GUHP’s growing on-line inventory of scholarship in the field, no one who has uploaded a profile under the free system of 2017-18 will be dropped from the website. Non-renewing scholars with profiles already on the GUHP site will become “Associate Members.” Associate Members will need to become Full Members in order to participate in conferences or participate in Project elections and leadership.