Nathan Michalewicz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
History Department
Queens University of Charlotte
Michalewiczn@queens.edu
Education
George Mason University
Ph.D., History, May 2020
Dissertation: “Franco-Ottoman Diplomacy during the French Wars of Religion, 1559-1610”
Directed by Dr. Mack P. Holt
University of West Georgia
M.A. History, 2013.
B.A., History, 2010.
Positions
Assistant Professor, History—Queens University of Charlotte, 2023-Present.
Digital World History Postdoctoral Fellow—University of Pittsburgh, 2022-2023.
Instructor—George Mason University, 2020-2022.
Editorial Assistant—Journal of Social History, 2015-2019.
Instructor—University of West Georgia, 2013-2014.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Friends, Enemies, and Diplomacy in Constantinople: The French Embassy of Jacques de Germigny (1579-1584),” The Sixteenth Century Journal 53, no. 4 (2022), 989-1020.
“François de Beaucaire de Péguillon and the Ottoman Empire: Perceptions of a Sixteenth-Century Militant Bishop,” The Journal of the Western Society for French History 40 (2012). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0642292.0040.002
Digital Projects
“Mapping French Diplomacy: Royal Correspondence and Diplomatic Geography, 1494-1715,” www.mappingfrenchdiplomacy.org.
“Mapping Florence in 1561,” https://florence-map.nathanmichalewicz.org/
“Jacques de Germigny in the Ottoman Empire (1579-1584): A Network Analysis of a French Ambassador’s Letters,” https://nathanmichalewicz.org/clio2/Germigny/index.html.
Conference Papers
“France, Europe, and the Ottoman Empire: Networks Connecting the Euro-Mediterranean” presented at The Sixteenth Century Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2023
“Navigating the History Career with Intentionality,” presented at The World History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2023
“Rethinking France’s Political Community: Mapping French Ambassadors in the Sixteenth Century,” presented at French Historical Studies Conference in Detroit, MI, March 2023
“Recovering Diplomacy and Commerce in Constantinople under Henri IV,” presented at the French Colonial Historical Studies Conference in Montréal, Canada, June 2019.
“Jacques Savary de Lancosme and Catholic League Diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire,” presented at the Society for French Historical Studies Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 2019.
“Playing the Ottoman Political Game: The Embassy of Jacques de Germigny in Constantinople (1579-1584),” presented at the Renaissance Society of America Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2018.
“France, the Turk, and the Wars of Religion: The Goals of French Diplomacy in the Levant,” presented at the Western Society for French History Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2013.
“François de Beaucaire de Péguillon and the Ottoman Empire: Perceptions of a Sixteenth-Century Bishop and Ligueur,” presented at the Western Society for French History Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 2012.
“French Reaction to the Franco-Ottoman Alliance,” presented at the 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, November 2012.
Courses Taught
Blood & Belief: Premodern Religious Violence
Digital History
Migration & Belonging in the Past
Roadmap
Modern European History
Introduction to World History.
World Civilizations after 1500.
World Civilizations before 1500.
Book Reviews
The Ottoman “Wild West”: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. By Nikolay Antov. H-War, H-Net Reviews (Dec. 2020). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53649.
Success and Suppression: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance. By Dag Nikolaus Hasse. Journal of Social History 52, no. 1 (Fall 2018).
The Essential Thirty Years War: A Documentary History. By Tryntje Helfferich. H-War, H-Net Reviews (June 2017).
Invited Talks
“Workshop: Teaching with GIS Mapping,” College in High School Annual History Meeting, October 2022.
Awards and Grants
Outstanding Mason Core Course recognition, George Mason University, Fall 2021.
Dissertation Completion Grant, George Mason University, 2020.
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, George Mason University, 2019.
Kurt Andrew Dodd Scholarship, George Mason University, 2017.
Dissertation Travel Grant, George Mason University, 2017.
Professional Societies
French Historical Studies Association.
Renaissance Society of America.
Middle East Studies Association.
Member of Phi Kappa Phi.
Member of Phi Alpha Theta.
Languages
French, advanced reading and speaking proficiency.
Latin, intermediate reading proficiency
Italian, intermediate reading proficiency.
Spanish, intermediate reading proficiency.
Turkish, beginning-intermediate reading proficiency.
Ottoman Turkish, beginning-intermediate reading proficiency.
Digital Humanities Tools
Programming: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML, CSS, React.
Visualizations: D3.js, Tableau, Deck.GL.
GIS: Leaflet.js, MapBox-GL.js, ArcGIS, QGIS.
References
Mack P. Holt, Professor Emeritus, George Mason University, mholt@gmu.edu
Huseyin Yilmaz, Associate Professor, George Mason University, hyilmaz@gmu.edu
James B. Collins, Professor, Georgetown University, collinja@georgetown.edu
Sean Takats, Professor, University of Luxembourg, seant.takats@uni.lu
