Education
Ph.D. (equivalent) Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian History, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1999.
Selected Bibliography
“The ‘Muslim Question’ in Late Imperial Russia,” Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies, 2007.
“The Autocracy and the Muslim Clergy in the Russian Empire (1850s-1917)”, Russian Studies in History, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2005 , pp. 8-30.
“Russians or Tatars? The Imperial View on the Problem of Cultural Dominance in the Russian Eastern Borderlands: Second Half of the 19 th Century - Beginning of the 20th century”, Страницы Российской истории. Проблемы, события, люди. Сборник статей в честь Б.В. Ананьича, Petersburg , 2003, pp. 85-94, [in Russian].
“On the Question of Orientalism in Late Imperial Russia”, Ab Imperio, № 1, Kazan, 2000, pp. 311-321, [in Russian].
“The ‘Muslim Question’ in Russia: the History of the Problem”, “ Исторические записки ”, 4 (122), Moscow, 2001, pp. 132-158, [in Russian].
“United and Indivisible Russia’ and the ‘Alien Question’ in Russian Imperial Ideology”, Пространство власти : исторический опыт России и вызовы современности . MONF, Moscow, 2001, pp. 204 – 217, [in Russian].
“On the Role of Christianization in Russian Imperial Policies among Volga Muslims”, «Имперский строй России в региональном измерении», Moscow , 1997, pp . 138-148, [ in Russian ].
Work in Progress
“Toward State Unity: the ‘Muslim Question’ in Late Imperial Russia”