About the project...
Mutinies 1917 has two purposes.
First, it provides a regularly updated journal about the process of writing history and the practice of thinking historically, written by a historian who is working on a book manuscript. The journal serves as a history of a history project. It includes not only reflections on writing, but also on epistemology, methodology, and interpretation of sources.
Second, it makes data sets, statistical analyses, and transcriptions of primary sources related to the French army mutinies in 1917 publicly available. These sets, analyses, and transcriptions are cited in my own research. Moreover, sharing them allows other historians to interpret and use these data. The mutinies are too large for any one historian. This site hopes to provide an easily accessible forum for international discussion, debate, and collaboration.
About the author...
My name is Adam Zientek. I received by BA in History (summa cum laude) from the University of California Berkeley in 2004, my MA in History from Stanford University in 2007, and my Ph.D in History from Stanford University in 2011. I specialize in history of Western Front during the First World War.
I after receiving my PhD, I held the position of Lecturer in the Thinking Matters Program at Stanford University, where I taught classes about international relations, international law, humanitarianism, and 20th century history. I am currently Assistant Professor of History at UC Davis, where I teach classes about modern Western Europe, modern France, and military history.