Are the globally intensively connected flows of people, ideas, goods, or viruses reflected in how research is conducted in the Humanities and Social Sciences? Is the knowledge investigated in universities and research institutions the one that will help navigate an ever more complex world? In the past three years, we have collected quantifiable institutional and knowledge production data to provide answers to these questions, taking German Academia as example and focusing on the fields of knowledge commonly labeled “Area Studies.” They investigate topics in different world regions and spatial dimensions, and come from different methodological backgrounds. In the common perception, they continue to be placed on the margins of Humanities and Social Sciences, due to their traditional role as a sort of data provider for the systematic disciplines, reporting from what once used to be “far-away places.” This is partly because academic systems, career trajectories, indexation, and rankings on a global scale still rely heavily on clear-cut disciplines, making interdisciplinary approaches less measurable and therefore less visible. Our investigation focused on the nature of the research interests, mapping institutional structures and knowledge production. It showed the slow but growing impact of global, transregional, and comparative research approaches not only in fields such as African studies, Sinology or Global History, but also across disciplines. In a similar direction, topic tendencies in journals and Jahrbücher showed a permanent increase in collaboration between fields, leading to interdisciplinary content. This also confirms the solid consolidation of communities of knowledge in German academia, which keep running publications in times of fierce publishing competition. While our case study is based on Germany, we argue that our results and method of data collection are applicable to other (trans-)national contexts and invites a global history assessment. If the trends we identified are sufficient to answer the two initial questions with a “yes”: up for debate. We would like to invite two scholars of transregional and global history present at ENIUGH 2025 and interested in the questions of science of science, to discuss with us about this. Proposed time duration: 60 to 90 minutes.