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Inner and Central Asian Studies

Inner/Central Asia

Islamic Scholarly Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917

A review of The Persianate Sphere during the Age of Empires: Islamic Scholars and Networks of Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917, by James Robert Pic...
Inner/Central Asia

Ordinary People and Everyday Lives in Kulob, Tajikistan

A review of Temporality and Subjectivity in Kulob, Southern Tajikistan: An Ethnography of Ordinary People and Their Everyday Lives, by Diana Ibañez-Ti...
Inner/Central Asia

Mobilization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan during World War II

A review of “A Fortress of the Soviet Home Front”: Mobilization and Ethnicity in Kazakhstan during World War II, by Roberto Carmack. Roberto Carmack h...
Asian Archaeology

DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
Inner/Central Asia

Friendship in a Mongolian Mining Town

A review of Treasure Underfoot and Far Away: Mining, Foreignness, and Friendship in Contemporary Mongolia, by Marissa Jo Smith. The dissertation focus...
Inner/Central Asia

Kazakh Nomads and the Soviet State, 1919-1934

A review of Kazakh Nomads and the New Soviet State, 1919-1934, by Alun Thomas. Nomads constituted a permanent challenge for the Soviet state. Due to.....
Inner/Central Asia

Citizenship in Soviet Uzbekistan

A review of Implementing a Vision of Citizenship in Soviet Uzbekistan: Theory, Social Issues and Education, by Sevket Chevy Akyildiz Beginning in the ...
Inner/Central Asia

Siberian Patriots and the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920

Review of Siberian Patriots: Participatory Autocracy and the Cohesion of the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920, by David Rainbow David Rainbow’s PhD t...
European Lit

Transnational Conceptions of Russian-Language Literature

A review of Russophonia: Towards a Transnational Conception of Russian-Language Literature, by Naomi Caffee. Naomi Caffee’s 2013 dissertation offers a...
Fresh from the Archives

Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

A review of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Архив Президента Республики Казахстан / Қазақстан Республикасы Президентінің М...
Inner/Central Asia

Mongolian Identities in the Qing-Republican Transition

A review of Ethnicizing the Frontier: Imperial Transformation and Ethnic Confrontations in China-Inner Mongolia, 1890s-1930s, by Liping Wang. Ethniciz...
Inner/Central Asia

Religion in Post-Soviet Tajikistan

A review of Religious Revival in Tajikistan: The Soviet Legacy Revisited, by Hélène Thibault. Whereas a range of studies on the everyday realities of ...
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