Miguel Angel Chavez


Historian of Science, Exploration, and Empire



 
         
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Thomas Baine, “Wagon stuck in a salt plaine” (1863)



Curriculum Vitae: ↪ link (updated March 2025)


DISSERTATION - Professionalizing Science: British Geography, Africa, and the Exploration of the Nile (2023)



Conference Presentations


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.






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