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Jerry Harrell Bentley (December 12, 1949 – July 15, 2012)^[1] was an American academic and professor of world history. He was a founding editor of theJournal of World History since 1990. He wrote on the cultural history of early modern Europe and on cross-cultural interactions inworld history. He was one of the cited experts inAnnenberg Media's 2004 series of educational videos that are broadcast by satellite on the Annenberg Channel.

Bentley was born inBirmingham, Alabama, United States. He attendedBrainerd High School inChattanooga, Tennessee, and then went on to theUniversity of Tennessee, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1971, and then his Masters (1974) and PhD (1976) from theUniversity of Minnesota. Following this he began working as an assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1976.^{[citation needed]} He rose to Associate Professor in 1982 and full professor in 1987. In 1990 he was the founding editor of theJournal of World History, with Elton Daniel and Daniel Kwok as editorial board members, and Herbert F. Ziegler as the book review editor. The University released a series of monographs on world history,Perspectives on the Global Past, and then became the headquarters for the World History Association. Bentley and Ziegler were also co-authors of the college-level world history textbookTraditions and Encounters, which as of 2016, is in its 6th edition.^[2]

In 2002, Bentley became the Director at the Center for World History at theUniversity of Hawaiʻi.^[3]

• 1987, President's Citation for Meritorious Teaching^[2]
• 1985, Fujio Matsuda Fellow^[4]

Two awards are named for him. TheBentley Book Prize (est. 2012) of theWorld History Association; and the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History of theAmerican Historical Association (est. 2014).^{[citation needed]}

Bentley died ofpancreatic cancer in 2012.^[5]

• Journal of World History (editor).
• "Erasmus, Jean Le Clerc, and the Principle of the Harder Reading," Renaissance Quarterly 31, number 3 (Autumn, 1978), pages 309–321.
• Humanists and Holy Writ: New Testament Scholarship in the Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).
• Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
• Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
• (with Herbert F. Ziegler)Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000); second edition (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003).
• "Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History,"American Historical Review 101 (1996): pages 749–70.
• "Hemispheric Integration, 500–1500 C.E.,"Journal of World History 9 (1998): pages 237–54
• "World History," in D.R. Woolf, ed.,Making History: A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (New York: Garland, 1998), pages 968–70.
• "Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis," TheGeographical Review 89 (1999): pages 215–24.
• "Shapes of World History in Twentieth-Century Scholarship," in Michael P. Adas, ed.,Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), pages 3–35.
• "The New World History," in Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds.,A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pages 393–416.
• "World History and Grand Narrative," in Benedikt Stuchtey, ed.,Writing World History, 1800–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pages xx–xx.
• "Why Study World History?," inWorld History Connected 5:1(2007), 19 pars.
• "Europeanization of the World or Globalization of Europe?"Religions 3, number 2 (2012): pages 441–454.

• University of Hawaiʻi Press
• Profile at mcgraw-hill.com
• Profile at History CompassArchived 2007-07-12 at theWayback Machine

• 1949 births
• 2012 deaths
• University of Minnesota alumni
• University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty
• Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
• Deaths from pancreatic cancer in the United States
• American historians
• World historians
• University of Tennessee alumni

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