About
I am an Assistant Professor of History at Ferrum College in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I teach world history, Russian history, the history of Islam, and other thematic courses in early modern and modern world history. My research has been focused on early modern Central Asia, particularly the mining of 18th-century history for 20th-century projects in nationalism and collective memory. Education
Ph.D. Indiana University, Central Eurasian Studies and Russian History, 2017
M.A. Indiana University, Central Eurasian Studies, 2011
B.A. English & Music, 2003 Publications
Chapters & Articles
“Central Asia before the advent of Russian Dominion,” Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia, edited by Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat (Routledge, 2022)
“The Soviet Study of the Barefooted Flight of the Kazakhs,” Central Asian Survey 34, no. 3 (2015): 281-295
Review Article
“Flight and Famine: Interrogating Collectivization, Stalinism, and Genocide,” Kritika 20, no. 3 (2019): 601-611
Reviews
Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Islam in Russia, Central Asia and Western China (19th–20th Centuries), by Jeff Eden, Paolo Sartori, and Devin DeWeese, eds. for Canadian-American Slavic Studies 52, no. 4 (2018): 470-473
Qazaqlïq, or ambitious brigandage, and the formation of the Qazaqs: state and identity in Post-Mongol Eurasia by Joo-Yup Lee for Central Asian Survey 35, no 4 (2016): 586-588
Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations by Alfrid Bustanov for Central Asian Survey 35, no 3 (2016): 464-466
