Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994
| Course schedule, Fall 2008: RUSN 101: Introductory Russian I RUSN 201: Intermediate Russian I RUSN 278: Soviet Dissident Culture |
Course schedule, Spring 2009: RUSN 102: Introductory Russian II RUSN 202: Intermediate Russian II CSP 56: The Russian Experience |
Courses not offered in 2007-8
RUSN 272: Russian
Modernism
RUSN 274: Leo Tolstoy's
War and Peace
Formerly Taught Courses
DWA 278: Oil and Politics in the
Caspian Basin
CSP 8: The Muslims of Russia
RUSN 276: Environmental Crises in Former
Soviet Space
20th Century Russian Art Presentations: Here are some of the presentations I have used in my classes on the Russian Avant Garde and other 20th Century art subjects.
An Insider's Tour of Russia: Pictures of the Occidental College Alumni "Passage of Peter the Great" trip of Summer 2005, complete with insider's stories, cultural trivia, and tendentious commentary.
Research Interests:
Ethnopolitics in the North Caucasus
Oil Politics in the Caspian Basin
Latest News
I have begun work on my next book, which will be a comprehensive history of the peoples of the nation of Georgia.
I will be reading a paper on Circassian attempts to create an effective government during the Russo-Circassian War of 1800-1864 at the conference "Hierarchy and Power in History" at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in June, 2009.
I have two articles on the Circassian deportation forthcoming in the United States and Turkey.
My book, The Northwest Caucasus: Past, Present, Future (Routledge Press, 2008) is now available here. Here is an excerpt from Chapter Four concerning the deportation of the Circassians from their homeland in the 1860s.
Recent Publications:
"Russian policies towards Islamic extremism in the Northern Caucasus and destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria," Moshe Gammer, ed. Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder. Routledge, 2007, pp. 86-101.
"Legal Pluralism in the Northwest Caucasus: The Role of Sharia Courts," Religion, State, Society 1 (2004): 59-73.
“The Deportation of the
Karachays,” Journal of Genocide Research 4.3 (2002): 431-39.
“The Karachay Struggle After the Deportation,”
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22.1 (2002): 63-79.
“The
Karachay Struggle After the Deportation,” As Alan 1.6 (2002): 85-109.
“Sovyetlarin
Türk
Halklarını Sürgün Etmesi,”
Türkler.
Ankara: Yeni Türkiye,
2002: Volume 18, 872-79.