ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE Invited lecturers

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Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He holds a degree in international law from Tbilisi State University (1999) and worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1996-2000). In 2000, he moved to the US where he joined the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University and finished his doctorate in history in 2003. He has taught history at Florida State University and Mississippi State University and lectured on strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College and US Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Mikaberidze is an award winning author and editor of over two dozen books on military history of Europe and the Middle East. He participated in the writing of the critically acclaimed “West Point History of Warfare,” official military history textbook of the US Military Academy. His most recent publication is The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, a new reassessment of the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars, was published by Oxford University Press in February 2020. Dr. Mikaberidze currently serves as an editor for the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.

Scientific interests / research interests
- Early Modern France
- Russia/Soviet Union
- Ottoman Empire
- Caucasus/Georgi
- Military and Diplomatic History (Europe and Middle East)
CONTACT

amikaberidze@gmail.com
Featured publications
- The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- La batalla de Borodinó. Napoleón contra Kutúzov. Madrid: Desperta Ferro Ediciones, 2018.
- Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: Historical Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2011, 2 volumes
- Historical Dictionary of Georgia. New York: Rowman Littlefield, 2015 (second, revised and updated edition)
Books
- [51 Questions about Napoleon]. Tbilisi: Artanuji, 2020.
- Behind the Barbed Wire: Encyclopedia of Concentration and Prisoner-of-War Camps. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019.
- [Georgians through Foreign Eyes, XV-XVII centuries]. Tbilisi: Artanuji, 2018. In Georgian
- [Georgia through Foreign Eyes, XV-XVII centuries]. Tbilisi: Artanuji, 2018. In Georgian
- [Georgians Lost in the Foreign Lands], Tbilisi: Artanuji, 2017. In Georgian
- Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the 1807 Campaign. London: Frontline Books, 2015.
- Napoleon’s Trial by Fire: The Burning of Moscow. London: Pen & Sword, 2014.
- Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the 1814 Campaign. London: Frontline Books, 2013.
- Atrocities, Massacres and War Crimes: Historical Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2013, 2 volumes.
- [Napoleon’s Mameluk: The Memoirs of Rustam Raza]. Tbilisi: Artanuji, 2012 (in Georgian).
- Russian Eyewitness Accounts of the 1812 Campaign. London: Frontline Books, 2012.
Articles in magazines
- [An Important Afghan Source about King Giorgi XI of Georgia], XIX/XX (2018): 162-169.
- “With Honor and Fidelity:” Life and Career of Colonel Nicolas Tokhadze (1901-1975) of the French Foreign Legion,” in The Proceedings of the Institute of History and Ethnology XIV-XV (2018): 479-514.
- “The Dreams of Empires” The War of 1812 in International Context,” in The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory, edited by Laura Lyons McLemore (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016), 56-78.Articles in newspapers
- [Georgians in the South Asian Politics in 15th-17th Centuries] in [Historical Anthology] 5 (2015): 178-200.
- “The Limits of the Operational Art: Russia 1812” in Festschrift for Donald D. Horward: Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, ed. Michael V. Leggiere (Leiden: Brill, first edition, 2015), 265-316.
- “Napoleon’s Lost Legions. The Great Army Prisoners of War in Russia,” in Napoleonica. La Revue, No. 21 (2015), 35-44.
Masters’s Courses
- Long 19th Century: a Global History of 1789-1914
- A History of Russia from Peter the Great to the October Revolution;