RESEARCH INTERESTS:

COURSES TAUGHT:

• Modern Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan
• Violence, Islam, and the State in Central Asia
• Introduction to the Humanities:  Worlds of Islam
• Art and Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Graduate Research Seminar on Imperial Russia
• History of Imperial Russia
• Imperial Russian Historiography

PUBLICATIONS:

• For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006)
• “Islamic Law, Imperial Order:  Muslims, Jews, and the Russian State,” Ab Imperio no. 3 (2004):  467-490.
• “Empire and the Confessional State:  Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia,” American Historical Review vol. 108, no. 1 (February 2003):  50-83.
• “Civilization in the City:  Architecture, Urbanism, and the Colonization of Tashkent,” Architectures of Identity in Russia, 1500-2000, eds., James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland (Cornell University Press, 2003), 117-132.
• The Taliban and the Crisis of Modern Afghanistan, co-edited with Amin Tarzi (forthcoming)