Alexander Mirkovic teaches courses in European and World History at Arkansas Tech University (USA). His current research project, entitled Nationalism: Religion of Modernity is a heoretical introduction to nationalism from a historical and cultural perspective. His research interests include urban history and the history of science. Dr. Mirkovic was an assistant editor of the ABC-CLIO World History Encyclopedia, Crisis and Achievement: 1900–1945, and assistant editor of the World History Bulletin, an official publication of the World History Association. In addition, he is the au-thor of From Courtly Curiosity to Revolutionary Refreshment: Turkish Coffee and English Politics in the Seventeenth Century and Prelude to Constantine: The Abgar Tradition in Early Christianity. Dr. Mirkovic has been at Arkansas Tech University since 2006. Before that he worked at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, Florida (USA). Education: PhD (Vanderbilt University); MA (University of South Florida); BA (Diploma, National University of Athens, Greece).