Miguel Angel Chavez
Historian of Science, Exploration, and Empire
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DISSERTATION - Professionalizing Science: British Geography, Africa, and the Exploration of the Nile (2023)
Conference Presentations / Works in Progress
“Violence as Pedagogy: Discipline in Victorian Exploratory Expeditions in Africa, 1840 to 1900” - presented at the History of Science Society Conference, Mérida, MX.
“’Colonial’ Science: John Brian Christopherson and Sudanese Knowledge in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”
History of Science Society Conference, Chicago, IL.
“Professionalizing Science: British Geography, Africa, and the Exploration of the Nile”
History of Science Society Conference, Online
“Boxed them both most impartially:” Authority and Discipline in British Exploratory Missions in Africa, 1860-1900.”
North American Conference on British Studies, Atlanta.
“Slaves of the Desk”: Nile Exploratory Accounts as Masculine Escapism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain”
Northeast Conference on British Studies, Online.
“The Echoes of Exploration: The legacy of Nile exploration on the Wellcome Laboratories in Khartoum”
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Conference,
New Orleans.
The Failed Explorer: John Petherick and Reputation in Nile Exploration - presented at the Ohio Valley History Conference in October 2018.
The Shifting Borders of Egypt - Master's Thesis, defended and revised in 2015.
Classical Ghosts: Greco-Roman Influences on Enlightenment Travel Writings in Ottoman Egypt - presented at the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference in September 2015.
From Enlightened to Despot: The Shifting Orientalist Portrayals of Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt - presented at the Fifh Annual Texas A&M Graduate History Conference in Spring 2014.
“From Arabia Petraea to the Sinai: The Shifting British Portrayals of the Egyptian-Palestinian Border from the Victorian Era until the 1906 Aqaba Crisis” - presented at the Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference in September 2013.