Alex Mikaberidze
Name: Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze
Title: Assistant Professor
Start Year at LSUS: 2007
Department: History and Social Sciences
School: Humanities and Social Sciences
College: Arts and Sciences
Office Location: Bronson Hall 449
Office Phone: 318-795-2415
Email: alexander.mikaberidze@lsus.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday: 8:30-9:30; 3:30-4:30;
Wednesday: 8:30-12:30; 1:30-4:30
Teaching Assignments:
SPRING 2011
HIST 106 - Western Civilization 1500-1815
HIST 107 - Western Civilization Since 1815
HIST 251 - History of the Middle East
HIST 434/634 - Age of Napoleon
SUMMER 2011
HIST 107 - Western Civilization Since 1815
HIST 433/633 - Europe in the 19th Century
FALL 2011
HIST 106 - Western Civilization 1500-1815
HIST 107 - Western Civilization Since 1815
HIST 400/600 - War and Society
HIST 414/614 - Imperial Russia
Research Interests:
- Military and Diplomatic History
- The French Revolution (1789-1799)
- Age of Napoleon (1799-1815)
- Imperial Russia and Soviet Union
- History of Middle East (particularly the Safavid Iran)
- Caucasus/Georgia
Selected Publications:
- Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: Historical Encyclopedia (editor), Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011, 2 volumes.
- World History Encyclopedia: The First Global Age, 1450-1770 (co-editor), Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011, 3 volumes.
- The A to Z of Georgia. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780810872073
- The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape (Campaign Chronicles Series), London: Pen & Sword, 2010, ISBN: 9781844159208.
- The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov (Campaign Chronicles Series), London: Pen & Sword, 2007; ISBN: 9781844156030. Winner of the 2008 Literary Award of the International Napoleonic Society, 2009.
- Historical Dictionary of Georgia,Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield/Scarecrow Press, 2007; ISBN: 0810855801.
- The Czar's General: The Memoirs of a Russian General in the Napoleonic Wars (translator and editor), Welwyn Garden City, UK: Ravenhall Books, 2005; ISBN: 1905043058.
- The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815, New York, NY: Savas Beatie, 2005; London: Spellmount, 2005; ISBN: 1932714022. Winner of the 2005 Literary Award of the International Napoleonic Society, 2006.
- Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809 (translator and editor), West Chester: Nafziger Collection, 2006, vol. 1. ISBN: 1585451525.
- Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky's Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812 (translator and editor), West Chester: Nafziger Collection, 2002; 2 vols. ISBN: 1585450952.
- Adamianis uflebebis da dziritadi tavisuflebebis datsva evropis sabchos farglebshi: adamianis uflebata evropuli sasamartlo [Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms within the Council of Europe Framework: European Court on Human Rights], Series "Judge's Library," Tbilisi: GCI, 2000 (in Georgian).
Personal Bio:
Born in the Soviet Kazakhstan, Dr. Mikaberidze grew up in the newly independent Republic of Georgia. He holds an advanced degree in international law from Tbilisi State University (Republic of Georgia, 1999) and worked as an international law expert at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (1996-2000), where he handled the human rights issues and relations with the Council of Europe. In 2000, Dr. Mikaberidze moved to the US to pursue his dream of studying the Revolutionary Era (1789--1815). He joined the prestigious Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University where he finished his Ph.D. in history in 2003. He has taught European, World and Middle Eastern history at Florida State University and Mississippi State University and lectured on strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College. He is the general editor of the Selected Papers of the Consortium on Revolutionary Era, as well as editor-in-chief of the periodical The Napoleonic Scholarship.He has been awarded the International Napoleonic Society's Legion of Merit Medal and La Renaissance Française's Médaille d'or du Rayonnement Culturel for his contributions to the Napoleonic studies. He joined LSUS in 2007 and was chosen by students as one of Top 20 Professors in 2009.
