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Ali F. Igmen

Ali F. Igmen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
562 985-8765 | Fax: 562 985-5431
aigmen@csulb.edu | Office: FO2-116

Research Interests

Professor Igmen’s research interests include Central Asia, Eurasia, Russia, Soviet Union, Middle East, China, World, Theater and Oral History.

Education

BA: University of Uludag; MPIA: University of Pittsburgh; MA: University of Washington, Ph.D. University of Washington, 2004

Selected Publications

“Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through ‘Orientalist’ Eyes.” Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, (Winter 2007)

Finding History in Chingiz Aitmatov’s Early Prose and in the Memories of Veterans: Kyrgyz Women of “The Great Patriotic War” in Changing Memories of War: a collection of Essays, Yotam Hotam and Sharon Gordon (ed.) Forthcoming: Magnes Press (2007)

“Central Eurasia Across the Curriculum and Beyond Institutional Walls: A Tale From Real Life.” Co-author: Daniel C. Waugh, Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, 4/2 (Summer 2005)

Honors and Awards

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

Courses

HISTORY 302:
Theory and History

HISTORY 396:
Contemporary World History

HISTORY 402:
Oral History Methods

HISTORY 431/531:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 600-1700

HISTORY 432/532:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 1700-Present

HISTORY 499:
Senior Seminar: Islam, Reform and Revolution in Central Asia

HISTORY 590:
Comparative History: From Empires to Nations in Eurasia

Courses taught at University of Wisconsin, Madison:

HISTORY 332:
Islam, Reform and Revolution in Central Asia

HISTORY 600:
Twentieth-Century Central Asia

Courses taught at University of Washington, Seattle

HISTORY 494:
From Russia with Love: American and Europeans in the USSR

HISTORY 498:
Stalinism and Islam