About Me

​Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He serves as the Curator of the James Smith Noel Collection.

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Mikaberidze is one of the leading historians of the Napoleonic era and the author of the Gilder Lehrman Prize-winning The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), which also won the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History and was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History. His most recent book, Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2022) won the 2023 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History.

 

Mikaberidze holds a degree in international law from Tbilisi State University (Republic of Georgia, 1999) and MA and Ph.D. in history from Florida State University (2003).

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Book Prizes

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2023 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History, for Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace.

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2021 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History, for The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.

 

2021 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, for The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.
 
2008 Literary Prize, International Napoleonic Society, 2008, for The Battle of Borodino: Napoleon versus Kutuzov.

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2006 Literary Prize, International Napoleonic Society, for The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815.