Postcards from the Borderlands
by David H. Mould
A former newspaper and TV journalist, David H. Mould moved from the UK to the US in 1978 for graduate study and stayed. He had a 30-year academic career at Ohio University as a faculty member and administrator, and retired with the rank of Professor Emeritus, Media Arts & Studies. For the last 25 years, he has worked as a consultant, trainer and researcher in communication for development (C4D), international media and journalism for international organizations, most recently UNICEF.
As a freelancer, he has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Times Higher Education, Transitions Online, Columbus Dispatch, History Today, AmericanHeritage.com, History News Network, The Montreal Review, Global Beat Syndicate and other print and online media.
His previous books include: Monsoon Postcards: Indian Ocean Journeys (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019), Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2016), Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance (co-editor) (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015), American Newsfilm, 1914-1919: The Underexposed War (Routledge, 2014, a re-publication of the original book from 1984), and Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History (co-author) (Athens: Swallow Press, 2009).
Postcards from the Borderlands
Historian and journalist David Mould rambles through a dozen countries in Asia, Southern Africa and Eastern Europe by car, bus, train, shared taxi and ferry, exploring what borders mean to their peoples.