Jordan Girardin

Biography

Jordan Girardin done his MLitt, PhD in the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.

Research Interest

History of Travel, Transnational History, Spatial History, European history, History of Esperanto, Modern History (18th-20th century), Digital Humanities, GIS His main research focuses on the history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with a particular focus on the history of travel and transnational movements. His PhD thesis offered a transnational and spatial analysis of early Alpine tourism (1750s-1830s), with a strong focus on mental mapping and spatial representations by travellers. His new project is a history of Esperanto speakers from the 1870s to the 1920s. It seeks to identify networks of Esperanto learners and speakers in Western Europe, and to understand why Esperanto is relatively popular in Western European intellectual milieus while it failed to develop in Eastern Europe, where it was originally created for.