Nicolas Trepanier
Associate Professor of History
Phone Number: (662)915-5872
Email: ntrepani@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/nicolas-trepanier/

Key Words: Middle East, Landscape, Videogames, History of Islam, Muslim world

Research Description: My research centers on the lives of ordinary people in the late medieval period of Anatolian history (post-Byzantine, pre- and early Ottoman, around the fourteenth century). I have just completed a project in which I explored the daily experiences of the ordinary folk through the various parts that food played in those lives from agricultural production to religious fasting, and from commercial exchanges to meal schedules. The resulting book, Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History, was published by the University of Texas Press in 2014.

I have begun a new project on landscape in the medieval context, centering on two questions: (1) What elements of the medieval landscape are still visible today? and (2) How did people living in and around the fourteenth century perceived these elements? This project will incorporate narrative sources, legal documents from the period and archaeological approaches.

In addition, I teach a course on representations of history in videogames. While not at the core of my academic research, it has given me some knowledge of videogame studies and, more importantly, has already led to two student publications. I would therefore be happy to work with writers of theses on related topics.

Honors Theses:

Head, Byron (2014) "What is a Berber?": Characterizations of Imazighen from Britain and Morocco. (full text)

Johnson, Trevor David (2013) "The Pilgrimage of Ibn Jubayr: A Microhistory of Travel During the Late Twelfth Century"

Chesteen, Wesley Thomas (2011)