Nathan Michalewicz, Ph.D.

Biography

Nathan Michalewicz is an Assistant Professor of History at Queen’s University of Charlotte. He specializes in and teaches the history of early modern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Ottoman Empire. He received his Ph.D. in history in 2020 from George Mason University. He is currently revising his book manuscript, France’s Greatest Ally: The Ottoman Empire in French Foreign Policy during the Sixteenth Century, for publication. The Journal of the Western Society for French History and Sixteenth Century Studies have published his research. Nathan is also working on a digital monograph, “Mapping French Diplomacy,” that maps all the letters from French rulers to international correspondents from 1494 to 1715. Nathan teaches a range of classes on these topics from the early modern period to modernity. These courses include “Modern Europe,” “Crusades and Holy Wars,” “The Reformation,” and “The World at War.”

Digital History and data analytics are a major component of Nathan’s research and teaching. His digital research focuses on spatial history and its presentation on the web. He is also very interested in network analysis of early modern correspondence and diplomatic networks. In this pursuit, he has become increasingly interested in the use of generative AI tools for data collection and categorization through vectorization and cosine similarity clustering. He is a full-stack developer, working in both Python and JavaScript. He has experience working with databases including PostgreSQL, Neo4j, and MongoDB. In this capacity, he teaches “Digital History,” “Programming for Data Analytics,” and “Data literacy.”