Alexander Mikaberidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე მიქაბერიძე; born 27 January 1978) is a
Georgian lawyer, author and historian who specializes in
Napoleonic studies. He is a full professor of history and social sciences at
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a public university in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System. Initially, a two-year college, LSUS has expanded into a university with 21 ...
, where he holds the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair for the Curatorship of the James Smith Noel Collection, one of the largest private collections of antiquarian books, prints, and maps in the United States.
Education and career
Mikaberidze was born in 1978 in
Aktobe,
Kazakh SSR
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, where his parents were working. In 1990, they returned to the
Georgian SSR
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц� ...
, which gained independence in 1991.
He graduated from
Tbilisi State University
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in 1999 with a degree in international law. From 1996 to 2000, he worked with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia
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, where he handled human rights issues and relations with the
Council of Europe.
Napoleonic studies
Mikaberidze is a specialist on Napoleonic studies and the Napoleonic era. In 1999, Mikaberidze was one of the founding members of the Napoleonic Society of Georgia, dedicated to the study of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (1799-1815). In 2000, he moved to the United States to devote himself to
Napoleonic studies. Mikaberidze graduated with a Ph.D. in history in 2003 from the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at
Florida State University. He has taught at Florida State University and
Mississippi State University, and lectured on strategy and policy at the
U.S. Naval War College
The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island. The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associa ...
. Since 2007, he has been at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
Mikaberidze has been the author, editor, and translator of over two dozen books and textbooks. His books ''The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815'' and ''The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov'' won the Literary Award of the International Napoleonic Society for 2005 and 2007, respectively. His latest book, ''The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History'', published by Oxford University Press in 2020, won the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award.
He is on the editorial boards of the international journal ''Napoleonica La Revue'', "an online review which aims to promote research in the history of the First and Second French Empires".
''Napoleonica La Revue'', "published by the
Fondation Napoléon, is academic, multidisciplinary, international and peer-reviewed".
He has served the editor-in-chief of the periodical ''The Napoleonic Scholarship'' and an editor of the Select Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era.
For his contributions to Napoleonic studies, Mikaberidze has been elected a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.
Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
of the United Kingdom, and awarded the
International Napoleonic Society's Legion of Merit Medal and
La Renaissance Française's ''Médaille d'or du Rayonnement Culturel''.
History of Islam
Alexander Mikaberidze edited ''
Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia'', a two-volume encyclopedia covering the military and political
history of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE. Muslims re ...
, and published in 2011.
The encyclopedia contains more than 600 entries from dozens of contributors, as well as a glossary, maps and photographs.
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'Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms within the Council of Europe Framework'': European Court on Human Rights], ''Judge's Library'' Series. Tbilisi: GCI. 2000.
References
External links
Profile and bibliography—
LSUS
The James Smith Noel Collection—
LSUS
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CSPAN
Mikaberidze interview — The Fondation Napoléon
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Biography—
National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
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1978 births
Living people
Writers from Tbilisi
People from Aktobe
Tbilisi State University alumni
Florida State University alumni
Louisiana State University Shreveport faculty
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
21st-century historians from Georgia (country)
Translators from Georgia (country)
Military historians
Historians of the Napoleonic Wars
21st-century translators
21st-century male writers