Edward Guimont, Author at CONTINGENT

Edward Guimont

Edward Guimont is an assistant professor of world history at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. His dissertation was on the invention and deployment of mythical histories of Great Zimbabwe by European settlers and African nationalists in southern Africa during the period of colonial rule. He has also written on the history of the Flat Earth, connections of nationalist movements across the late British Empire, conspiracy theories, and H. P. Lovecraft.

Field Trip

Edward Guimont’s “From Outer Space”

By Edward Guimont | October 17, 2022

The Hills’ aliens wore clothing and spoke English—albeit with an unspecified “foreign accent.”

Science

A Social Network Born Of Social Distancing

By Edward Guimont, Kelcey Gibbons, Daniella McCahey, Megan Baumhammer and Sarah Qidwai | March 25, 2022

Scholars of science, technology, and medicine⁠ who are building a new community from the ground up.

Shorts

What to the Droid Is Life Day?

By Edward Guimont | December 24, 2019

The Rebel Alliance fought for freedom, but this freedom was predicated on the automation of labor — on droids.

Features

Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa

By Edward Guimont | March 18, 2019

Before ancient aliens—before Lizard People—there was the search for living dinosaurs.