January 2019 CURRICULUM VITAE DR. TIMOTHY MAY 706.864.1913 [email protected] Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph. D. History, 1996-2004. Major: Comparative World History (Middle East and Russia) Minor: Central Asia Dissertation topic: The Mechanics of Conquest and Governance: The Rise and Expansion of the Mongol Empire, 1185-1265. Indiana University, M. A. Central Eurasian Studies, 1994-1996. Major: Mongolian Studies Thesis: Chormaqan Noyan, the first Mongol Military Governor in the Middle East. University of Yarmouk, Irbid, Jordan, Arabic Program, Summer, 1995. The College of William and Mary, B. A. History and Anthropology, 1989-1993. Undergraduate History Honors Thesis: Mongols and Crusaders: A Study of the Evolution of Political and Military Relations. Received High Honors, 1993. Undergraduate Anthropology thesis: Chinggis Khan in Mongolian Society, 1993. Research Specialization: Historian of the Mongol Empire with a special interest in comparative history of Central Eurasia and the Middle East. Secondary interests in military history, religious conversion, state building, legitimization of authority, and pastoral-sedentary relations. Academic Experience: July 1, 2014-Current: Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters, University of North Georgia. January, 2013-June, 2014: Department Head, History, Anthropology, & Philosophy, University of North Georgia. January, 2013-Current: Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian History, University of North Georgia. August--December 2012: Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian History, North Georgia College & State University. Promoted August 1, 2012. August, 2009-December, 2012: Department Head, Department of History & Philosophy, North Georgia College & State University. January, 2009-August, 2010: Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of History & Philosophy, North Georgia College & State University. 2008-2012: Associate Professor of Middle Eastern & Central Eurasian History, North Georgia College and State University. Promoted August 1 2008; tenured August 1, 2009. 2004—2008: Asst. Professor of History, North Georgia College and State University. Courses Taught: 1 January 2019 T. May Undergraduate: World History I; World History II; World Civilizations II—Honors; Religion and Thought in the Islamic World; History of World Religions; History of Central Eurasia; The Middle East in the Middle Ages; The Mongol Conquests; The Crusades; The Modern Middle East; History of Stuff; Eurasia after the Mongols; Afghanistan and the Great Game; Star Wars and History; Holy War, Arab-Israeli Conflict. Undergraduate Independent Studies: 2011: Studies in Historiography-Primary Sources in Arabic 2010: General Gordon and the Sudan Campaign; The Mongols; Rise of the Safavid Empire 2009: The Knights Hospitaller and the Crusades; Rise of the Ottoman Turks; Jihad in World History; Historiography of the Silk Road; The Ottomans, 1402-151 Graduate Seminars & Colloquiums Historiography; Colloquium in World History; Steppe History Colloquium; Graduate Capstone in History; Teaching History; Silk Road Colloquium Graduate Independent Studies 2018: Crusades 2015: Historiography of Afghanistan 2014: Mongol Invasion of Russia Thesis Committees: 2018: Jennifer Smith (primary) Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor: Place and Political Function of a Strategic Region. 2012: Donna Hamil (primary), The Mongol Khatuns: Political Agency and Cultural Adaptation of Royal Women in the Expanding Mongol Empire. 2011: Ross Burger, The Rhetoric of Blitzkrieg. Books: In preparation: Dashdondog Bayarsaikhan, Christopher P. Atwood, & Timothy May, eds. New Approaches to Ilkhanid History. Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming. Under Contract: The Borjigids: The Dynasty of Chinggis Khan. Reaktion. Under Contract: Timothy May and Michael Hope (eds), The Mongol World. Routledge. Under Contract: Simply Chinggis. Simply Charly Forthcoming: The Mongols. Past Imperfect. ARC-Humanities Forthcoming: Coins and Currency of the Mongol Empire, general editor. 1. 2018: The Mongol Empire. Islamic Empires. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 2. 2016: Timothy May and Peter Jackson, eds., The Mongols and Post-Mongol Asia: Studies in Honour of David O. Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Also as Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd series, vol. 26, no. 1 & 2 (2016). http://royalasiaticsociety.org/honoring-david-morgan-mongols-and-post-mongol-asia/ 3. 2016: Timothy May, ed. The Mongol Empire, a Historical Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Empires of the World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 4. 2012: The Mongol Conquests in World History (C. 1200-1350). London: Reaktion Books; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Chinese translation by Xiaolin Ma: Gingko (Beijing) Book Co., Ltd. 2017; also Taipei: Agora Publishing, 2018. PRC translation selected as one of top 10 books for 2017 (#7) by Economic Observer. http://www.weiduba.net/wx/1014151619087270 2 January 2019 T. May 5. 2011: Co-author with Judith Kolbas and Vlastimil Novak, Anatolian Early 14th Century Coin Hoard, Editio Monographica Musei Nationalis Pragae , 9. Prague: National Museum, 2011. 6. 2009: Culture and Customs of Mongolia. New York: Greenwood Press, 2009. 7. 2007: The Mongol Art of War. London: Pen and Sword Publications, 2007 & Yardly, Pa: Westholme Publishing, 2007. Korean translation: Daesung, 2009; Polish translation by Jowita Matys, Warsaw: Bellona, 2010. Paperback edition, 2016. Refereed Articles: 1. 2018, March. May, Timothy. "Nomadic Warfare Before Firearms." In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Article published March, 2018. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.4 2. 2017, December: “Grand Strategy in the Mongol Empire”, Acta Historica Mongolici 16 (2017): 78-105. 3. 2016, May: “Commercial Queens: Mongol Khatuns and the Silk Road”, The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 26 (2016): 89-106. doi:10.1017/S1356186315000590. 4. 2016, February: "Mongol Wars". In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279- 0129.xml (accessed 26-Feb-2016). 5. 2015, September: “The Mongol Art of War and the Tsunami strategy” [Монгольское искусство войны и стратегия цунами], Золотоордынская цивилизация. Научный ежегодник [Golden Horde Civilization. Research Annual], Выпуск 8, Казань: Институт истории им. Ш.Марджани АН РТ, 8 (2015): 31-37. 6. 2015, August: “Mongol Warfare in the Pre-Dissolution Period”, Золотоордынское обозрение (Golden Horde Review) 2 (2015): 6-20. 7. 2015, June: “Converting the Khan: Christian Missionaries and the Mongol Empire,” World History Connected 12/2 (June 2015). http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/12.2/forum_may.html 8. 2015, February: "The Chinggis Exchange: the Mongol Empire and Global Impact on Warfare," World History Connected 12/1 (February 2015). http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/12.1/forum_may.html 9. 2010, July: Paul D. Buell, Timothy May, & David Ramey, “Greek and Chinese Horse Medicine: Déjà vu All Over Again”, Sudhoffs Archiv 94/1 (2010): 31-56. 10. 2010, February: “Introduction”, Forum on Women and World History, World History Connected, vol 7, no. 1 (2010). http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/7.1/may.html 11. 2008: “The Relationship between Sufis and Inner Asian Ruling Elites”, Southeast Review of Asian Studies 30 (2008): 84-101. 12. 2008, February: "The Mongol Empire in World History". World History Connected, vol 5/2 (2008). http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/5.2/may.html 13. 2006: “Nökhöd to Noyad: Chinggis Khan’s Social Revolution”, Mongolica 19 (2006): 296-308. 3 January 2019 T. May 14. 2006: “Jamuqa and the Education of Chinggis Khan”. Acta Mongolica 6 (2006): 273-286. 15. 2006, July: “The Training of an Inner Asian Nomad Army in the Pre-Modern Period”. The Journal of Military History, 70/3 (2006): 617-635. 16. 2004, Fall: “A Mongol-Ismaili Alliance? Thoughts on the Mongols and Assassins”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 14/3 (2006): 1-9. 17. 2003: “Attitudes towards Conversion Among the Elite in the Mongol Empire”. E-ASPAC: The Electronic Journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (2002-2003). http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/2003/may.php3 Chapters: 1. 2018, September: “The Mongols as the Scourge of God in the Islamic World”, Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism, ed. Robert Gleaves and Istvan T. Kristo-Nagy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), 32-57. 2. 2018, May: Paul D. Buell, Timothy May, & David Ramey,”Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations”, Imagining Chinese Medicine, a Visual History, ed. Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 315-326. 3. 2018, January: "Sübedei Ba'atur: Portrait of a Mongol General," Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 900-1400, ed. Donald Ostrowski and Christian Raffensperger (London: Routledge, 2018), 68-78. 4. 2016, August: "Ил-хаант улс ба Афганистан”, pp. 299-325, trans. D. Tod and D. Bayarsaikhan, ИЛ-ХААДЫН СУДЛАЛ ШИНЭ ХАНДЛАГА ӨГҮҮЛЛИЙН ЭМХЭТГЭЛ, ed. Dashdondog Bayarsaikhan and Christopher P. Atwood. Ulaanbaatar: Muis Press Xevleliin Gazar. 5. 2016, June: “Mongol Conquest Strategy in the Middle East” pp. 11-37, Mongols’Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran, ed. Bruno De Nicola and Charles Melville, Leiden: Brill, 2016. 6. 2016, April: “Color Symbolism in the Turko-Mongolian World”, pp. 51-78, The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art, ed. Sungshin Kim, Dahlonega,