2018 Peer-reviewed articles
Histoire Globale in France: The Rise of the French Connection
By Olivier Schouteden, American University of Cairo
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© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 17, Fall 2018
About the Author: Olivier Schouteden is an assistant professor of history at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He received his PhD in world history from Northeastern University. His academic interests are in world history, East and Southeast Asia, modern France and Europe, imperialism, and the history of exploration and travel. His research examines how exploration reflected imperial limitations and often undermined France’s colonial project in and around Indochina (present-day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) during the age of the New Imperialism. During the fall semester 2024, he was a BECHS-Africa fellow (Mellon Foundation) at the University of Ghana (Legon), where he worked on two publication projects, including his first book Exploration on the Loose.
Edited by Mariona Lloret Roda and Ruben Carrillo; special thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers.
The British Empire and World History: Some Connective Thoughts
By Bart Zielinski, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London
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© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 17, Fall 2018
About the Author: Bart Zielinski is a Researcher at Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London.
Edited by Mariona Lloret Roda and Ruben Carrillo; special thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers.
World History in Germany: New Wine in Old Bottles
By Pavla Šimková, Research Fellow, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany
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© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 17, Fall 2018
About the Author: Pavla Šimková is a historian with an interest in East Central European and American environmental history. She is post-doctoral researcher in the project "Corridor Talk: Conservation Humanities and the Future of Europe's National Parks" (DFG-AHRC, 2020-2023). Within the project, she focuses on transnational environmental history of the Bavarian Forest and Šumava. Pavla studied American cultural history, English literature, and political science at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and at LMU Munich where she received her doctorate in 2019. She worked as a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center from 2012 until 2018. She was a co-author of the Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich from 2011 until 2020. She is currently one of the editors of the journal WerkstattGeschichte. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands, was published in 2021.
Edited by Mariona Lloret Roda and Ruben Carrillo; special thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers.
Making the Geographic Turn: Researching and Teaching Early-Modern British and World History
By Alex Zukas, Professor of History, National University
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© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 17, Fall 2018
About the Author: Alex Zukas is a professor at National University, San Diego, California.
Edited by Mariona Lloret Roda and Ruben Carrillo; special thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers.
Honoring a Pioneer Woman Asian Historian in the Twin Cities
By Maythee Jensen Kantar, Metropolitan State University
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© 2018 The Middle Ground Journal (ISSN: 2155-1103) Number 17, Fall 2018
About the Author: Maythee Jensen Kantar is a Professor at Metropolitan State University
Edited by Jeanne E. Grant and Anne Aronson