Hey, I'm Alexander!
Posted: 19 Jun 2026, 15:16
Coming to you straight from the frozen wastes of Naggaroth... Damn is it ever great to be using an old school forum again!
I'm Alexander and I'm a historian from Canada! When I'm not trying to finish my doctoral thesis on the Knights of St. John (some day!), I'm busy tutoring, teaching and selling my soul to an AI company which will remain legally unspecified! My scholarly interest is primarily the study of violence as a historical, cultural and technological phenomenon, and I primarily deal with the early modern period globally, as this is where we see technology and culture interacting in the sphere of both war and personal violence in fascinating ways. This means I likewise find representations of violence to be fascinating axes of intersection of all of the above, and that, naturally, dovetails very nicely with Warhammer as an object of academic study.
I only joined the Conference last year, where I gave my talk, New Dark Age: Synthesizing Historical Understanding Through Warhammer! I hope to present this year as well (whenever I finish my abstract!), and in any subsequent year in which the Conference will have me! I find this to be an extremely important interdisciplinary nexus of scholarly inquiry, and I am grateful to our organizers for creating this space in academia.
I also present at historical conferences, where I've presented The Brazen Head: Sorcerer-Scientists, Artificial Intelligence, and the De-Enlightenment (work forthcoming on that one!) and Swords and Sensibility: Fencing Manuals, Nobility, and Society in Renaissance Italy, which reflect some of my diverse academic interests.
Outside of academia, I can mostly be found playing video games, the medium through which I first found Warhammer (Dawn of War!), painting on canvas, attempting to paint a growing Strike Force of Grey Knights, practicing the longsword (Fiore dei Liberi!) and rapier, and learning to play the hurdy-gurdy (poorly!).
Very glad to be here!
I'm Alexander and I'm a historian from Canada! When I'm not trying to finish my doctoral thesis on the Knights of St. John (some day!), I'm busy tutoring, teaching and selling my soul to an AI company which will remain legally unspecified! My scholarly interest is primarily the study of violence as a historical, cultural and technological phenomenon, and I primarily deal with the early modern period globally, as this is where we see technology and culture interacting in the sphere of both war and personal violence in fascinating ways. This means I likewise find representations of violence to be fascinating axes of intersection of all of the above, and that, naturally, dovetails very nicely with Warhammer as an object of academic study.
I only joined the Conference last year, where I gave my talk, New Dark Age: Synthesizing Historical Understanding Through Warhammer! I hope to present this year as well (whenever I finish my abstract!), and in any subsequent year in which the Conference will have me! I find this to be an extremely important interdisciplinary nexus of scholarly inquiry, and I am grateful to our organizers for creating this space in academia.
I also present at historical conferences, where I've presented The Brazen Head: Sorcerer-Scientists, Artificial Intelligence, and the De-Enlightenment (work forthcoming on that one!) and Swords and Sensibility: Fencing Manuals, Nobility, and Society in Renaissance Italy, which reflect some of my diverse academic interests.
Outside of academia, I can mostly be found playing video games, the medium through which I first found Warhammer (Dawn of War!), painting on canvas, attempting to paint a growing Strike Force of Grey Knights, practicing the longsword (Fiore dei Liberi!) and rapier, and learning to play the hurdy-gurdy (poorly!).
Very glad to be here!
