The ESSHC papers and sessions are organised in a large number of networks which cover a certain topic. All networks and networkchairs are listed below.
| Africa | Jan-Bart Gewald | African Studies Centre, Leiden, NL | |
| Tundé Zack-Williams | Department of Sociology, University of Central Lancashire, UK | ||
| Antiquity | Neville Morley | University of Bristol, Classics & Ancient History, UK | |
| Arjan Zuiderhoek | Ghent University, Archaeology and Ancient History of Europe, Belgium | ||
| Asia | Nandini Gooptu | Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, UK | |
| Ratna Saptari | IISH, Amsterdam / Leiden University, Department of Anthropology and Dev. Sociology, NL | ||
| Criminal Justice For call for papers click here |
Anja Johansen | The University of Dundee, Department of History, UK | |
| Paul Lawrence | The Open University, Department of History, UK | ||
| Klaus Weinhauer | University of Bielefeld, Faculty of History, Germany | ||
| Culture For call for papers click here |
Marga Altena | University of Amsterdam, NL | |
| Joris van Eijnatten | Utrecht University, Department of History, NL | ||
| Magdalena Elchinova | New Bulgarian University, Department of Anthropology | ||
| Economics For call for papers click here |
Anne McCants | MIT, History Department, Cambridge, USA | |
| Jochen Streb | University of Hohenheim, Economics Department, Germany | ||
| Jeroen Touwen | Leiden University, History Department, NL | ||
| Education and Childhood For call for papers click here |
Annemieke van Drenth | Leiden University, Department of Pedagogy, NL | |
| Bengt Sandin | Linköping University, Department of Child Studies, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden | ||
| Elites For call for papers click here |
Jose Antonio Sanchez Roman | University Complutense of Madrid, Department of History, Spain | |
| Marja Vuorinen | University of Helsinki, Department of Social Science History, Finland | ||
| Ethnicity and Migration | Irina Schmitt | University of Lund, Sweden | |
| Marlou Schrover | Leiden University, History Department, NL | ||
| Phillipe Rygiel | Université Paris I, Centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, France | ||
| Per-Olof Gronberg | Centre for Population Studies, Umeå University, Sweden | ||
| Family and Demography For call for papers click here |
Mary-Louise Nagata | Francis Marion University, History Department, Washington,USA | |
| Per Axelsson | Umeå University, Centre for Population Studies, Sweden | ||
| Health and Environment For call for papers click here |
Iris Borowy | Universität Rostock, Historisches Institut, Germany | |
| Enrique Perdiguero | Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain | ||
| Spatial and digital history (merger of Geography/GiS and History and Computing) |
Onno Boonstra | Department of History, KU Nijmegen, NL | |
| Ian Gregory | Digital Humanities, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK | ||
| Gunnar Thorvaldsen | Norwegian Historical Data Centre, University of Tromsø, Norway | ||
| Labour For call for papers click here |
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk | IISG, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Magaly Rodriguez Garcia | Free University Brussels, History Department, Belgium | ||
| Latin America | Kim Clark | Department of Anthropology, Social Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, Canada | |
| Paulo Drinot | University of Manchester, UK | ||
| Material and Consumer Culture For call for papers click here |
Karin Dannehl | University of Wolverhampton, UK | |
| Harm Nijboer | University of Amsterdam, NL | ||
| Middle Ages | Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues | University of Lisbon, History Department, Lisboa, Portugal | |
| Oral History For call for papers click here |
Bea Lewkowicz | London University, Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, UK | |
| Albert Lichtblau | University of Salzburg, History Deparment, Austria | ||
| Politics, Citizenship, and Nations For call for papers clickhere |
Anne Epstein | University of Strasbourg, France | |
| José Reis Santos | New University of Lisbon, Human and Social Sciences, Portugal | ||
| Religion For call for papers click here |
Silvia Evangelisti | University Of East Anglia, School of History, UK | |
| Patrick Pasture | Leuven University, Department of History, Belgium | ||
| Rural | Dulce Freire | New University of Lisbon, Contemporay History Institute, Portugal | |
| Anton Schuurman | Wageningen University, Rural History, NL | ||
| Sexuality For call for papers click here |
Elise Chenier | Simon Fraser University, Department of History, Canada | |
| Julie Gammon | University of Southampton, Department of History, UK | ||
| Jens Rystrom | Lund University, Centre for Gender Studies, Sweden | ||
| Social Inequality For call for papers click here |
Lynn Hollen Lees | Department of History, College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Marco van Leeuwen | Utrecht University/IISH, NL | ||
| Technology For call for papers click here |
Alessandro Nuvolari | Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy | |
| Erik van der Vleuten | Eindhoven University of Technology, Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, NL | ||
| Theory For call for papers click here |
Stefan Berger | Institute for Social Movements and House for the History of the Ruhr, University Bochum, Germany | |
| Chris Lorenz | Department of History, Free University, Amsterdam, NL | ||
| Thomas Welskopp | Institut für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany | ||
| Urban | John Davis | The Queen's College, Oxford, UK | |
| Harm Kaal | Department of History, Free University, Amsterdam, NL | ||
| Women and Gender For call for papers click here |
Bettina Brandt | University of Bielefeld, Germany | |
| Elisabeth Elgan | Södertörn University, Contemporary History, Sweden | ||
| Marianna Muravyeva | Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation | ||
| World History | David Lindenfield | Louisiana State University, History Department, USA | |
| Matthias Middell | University of Leipzig, Germany |
