ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

I began my career in the U.K. as a journalist, working as a reporter, feature writer and sub-editor for the Evening Post, a large-circulation newspaper in West Yorkshire (1970–1973). From 1973, I worked as a news writer, assignment editor and producer for Calendar, Yorkshire Television's popular nightly news magazine program, viewed throughout Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Humberside, Teeside and the north Midlands. The demands of daily news deadlines took their toll, and in 1978 I left the U.K. for the U.S. to study broadcasting and film at the University of Kansas. Academic study took me away from journalism, but I've never lost my love of research, interviewing, reporting and, especially, writing. Over the years. I've earned a few bylines and some money writing articles and essays for news outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, Times Higher Education, Columbus Dispatch, Charleston Gazette and other print and online media. I've turned some of my historical research into more popular form for History Today, AmericanHeritage.com, and History News Network. I’ve done ghostwriting and editing for other writers—a travel memoir for an Australian woman escaping from a bad relationship, a thriller about a rogue KGB agent who foils a complex plot to overthrow Russia’s first post-Soviet government. And I've had fun (but earned no money) writing essays for eclectic literary outlets such as Broad Street and The Montreal Review.

group-of-people-standing-near-baobab-trees-madagascar.jpg — Social science research in Madagascar--It's a jungle

David Mould had to navigate cartoon lemurs and other barriers in order to help local academics study factors hindering development. Times Higher Education, June 30, 2016.

Down with Stonewall Jackson! He's just like Lenin

Are there lessons from post-Soviet history for current controversies over Civil War statues and memorials? History News Network, September 10, 2017.

From Times Higher Education:

Cast adrift: An adventure in academic editing, June 19, 2014. David Mould on fine-tuning the work of a global group of novice researchers.

Realpolitik: A Fulbright Fellow in Astana, September 5, 2013. How did David Mould end up teaching journalism in Kazakhstan’s frozen capital? He was a political pawn, he says.

Time and motion studies, February 28, 2013. Not only do medieval travellers’ tales provide students with a compelling account of history rooted in personal experience, they also promote cross-cultural understanding in the present day, argues David Mould.

Off Piste - Unfamiliar territory, January 3, 2013. To many in the West, Central Asia is a bewildering array of indistinguishable nations. But if you take the time to get to know them, argues David Mould, the ‘stans’ are fascinating individuals.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! July 26, 2012. Mascots, especially animals, play a big role in the multibillion-dollar business of US university marketing. Is it all just fun, asks David Mould, or have we gone too far in allowing corporatised Bobcats, Panthers, Eagles and Owls the run of campus?

Insecure in the knowledge, March 22, 2012. As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers.

Warming to life in the hot zone, January 12, 2012. That people should be moved out of a former nuclear test site seemed a no-brainer. But spending time with those affected led two researchers to revise their views. David Mould reports.

FROM THE MONTREAL REVIEW

Space Junk (March 2013)

Buckwild and Downton Abbey: TV's Social Reality (January 2013)

Central Asia Frequent Flier (January 2012)

Winter Postcards from the Kazakh Steppe (December 2011)