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Ali F. Igmen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of History |
Professor Igmen’s research interests include Central Asia, Eurasia, Russia, Soviet Union, Middle East, China, World, Theater and Oral History.
BA: University of Uludag; MPIA: University of Pittsburgh; MA: University of Washington, Ph.D. University of Washington, 2004
Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Crafting Culture in Kyrgyzstan. “Central Asia in Context Series,” Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, under peer review (forthcoming in 2010)
Reconstructing the Soviet and Eastern European Houses House of Culture, Joachim Otto Habeck and Brian Donahoe, editors, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, New York: Berghahn Press, (forthcoming in 2010)
“Reconstructing the House of Culture” in Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR), Central Eurasian Studies Society, Center for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, volume 7, number 1 (Spring 2008)
"Finding History in Chingiz Aitmatov's Early Prose and in the Memories of Veterans: Kyrgyz Women of 'The Great Patriotic War,'" Tabur: Koebner Yearbook for Central European History, Culture & Thought, The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (2008)
“Eurasian Women and Self-Reliance: Religion and Education in the Contemporary World” Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR). Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 6, number 1/2 (Fall 2007)
“Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through ‘Orientalist’ Eyes.” Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR), Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 5, number 2, (Summer 2006)
“Central Eurasia Across the Curriculum and Beyond Institutional Walls: A Tale From Real Life.” Co-author: Daniel C. Waugh, Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR), Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 4, number 2 (Summer 2005)
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology) Fellow, Halle, Houses of Culture Workshop, September 2007
Social Science Research Council, Eurasia Program Dissertation Development F, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan April 2003
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship in Kyrgyzstan, 2001-02
Rondeau Laverne Evans Dissertation Fellowship for research in Turkey in Winter 2000
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for Dissertation Research, 2000-2001
Maclyn P. Burg Scholarship for research in Turkey in Summer 1999
Social Science Research Council Fellowship for Tajik language training in Summer 1997
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for Russian in Summer 2000; 1996-97; and Summer 1996
United States Information Agency Grant for teaching and research in Kyrgyzstan, 1995
Social Science Research Council fellowship for Kyrgyz language training in Summer 1993
HISTORY 302:
Theory and History
HISTORY 396:
Contemporary World History
HISTORY 402:
Oral History Methods
HIST 416/516:
Central Asia and Afghanistan: From the Mongol Era to WWI
HIST 418/518:
Central Asia and Afghanistan: The Twentieth Century
HISTORY 431/531:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 600-1700
HISTORY 432/532:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 1700-Present
HIST 440/540:
The Silk Roads (jointly-taught with Timothy Keirn)
HISTORY 499:
Senior Seminar: Islam, Reform and Revolution in Central Asia
HIST 501:
Theory and History
HISTORY 590:
Comparative History: From Empires to Nations in Eurasia
