North, Central & West Asia
A review of Qādisiyyah, Then and Now: A Case Study of History and Memory, Religion, and Nationalism in Middle Eastern Discourse, by D Gershon Lewental...
A review of Hidden Waters: Groundwater Histories of Iran and the Mediterranean, by Abigail E. Schade. Abigail Schade’s dissertation is an examination ...
A review of the Matenadaran Institute Library, Yerevan, Armenia. Presiding over Mashtots Avenue, Yerevan’s central boulevard and one of its largest, i...
A review of From “Retire Livestock, Restore Rangeland” to the Compensation for Ecological Services: State Interventions into Rangeland Ecosystem and P...
We’re very excited to announce that “Inner Asia Dissertation Reviews” will be expanding to include Central Asia Studies in the 2013-...
An overview of the primary Persian manuscript collections in the United Kingdom. We are now approaching what UK-based researchers lovingly call “the s...
Cold Case Creativity My dissertation, Worlds on View: Visual Art Exhibitions and State Identity in the Late Cold War, combines several different metho...
A review of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier: State Building, National Integration and Socialist Transformation, Zeku (Tsékhok) County, ...
A review of Scenes from Yongning: Media Creation in China’s Na Villages, by Tami Blumenfield. Tami Blumenfield’s dissertation is a refreshing anthropo...
Will you be doing archival research on topics Islamic or related to the Islamic world this summer? Before heading out, be sure to brush up...
A review of Un(der)writing Home: The Politics of Belonging in the Modern Literatures of Iran and the Maghreb, by Guilan Siassi. In bringing together P...
A review of Subtle Innovation Within Networks of Convention: The Life, Thought, and Intellectual Legacy of Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926/1520), by Matth...