Douglas Taylor Northrop - University of Michigan College ...



Departments of History & Near Eastern Studies northrop@umich.edu

1029 Tisch Hall, 435 South State Street

The University of Michigan (734) 764-6305 department main office

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 (734) 647-4881 department fax

Employment

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, 2014-present.

Associate professor, 2004-2014.

Associate Chair, Department of History, 2014-2016.

Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2008-2011.

Associate director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, 2006-2008.

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Senior research fellow, Center for International Trade and Security, 2004-2011.

Assistant professor of modern Russian and Soviet history, 1999-2004.

Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

Assistant professor of modern European history, 1998-1999.

Visiting instructor, 1997-1998.

Education

Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Ph.D., April 1999. M.A., January 1993. Pass with Distinction, qualifying exams, May 1994.

Modern Russian, Soviet, and East European history.

Dissertation: Uzbek Women and the Veil: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia.

Advisor: Professor Alexander Dallin.

Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.

B.A. with starred First-Class Honours, June 1991. M.A., January 1995.

Modern European history.

Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

B.A., summa cum laude, June 1989. Class valedictorian. Phi Beta Kappa (junior year).

Triple major: Russian, political science, mathematics.

Highest Honors in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies.

Publications and Research

Current projects:

Four Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire on Russia’s Eurasian Frontier (under contract, Princeton University Press).

Zoom: A History of Everything (with C. Gibelyou; under contract, Oxford University Press).

Spinning Silk: The Global Making of Eurasian Pasts (early stage research).

Books:

An Imperial World: Empires and Colonies Since 1750 (Pearson, “Connections” Series in World History, 2013).

(Editor.) A Companion to World History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; paperback, 2014).

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2004). Winner of AAASS W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, 2006, awarded biennally for an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is “of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past.” Also winner of AWSS Heldt Prize, 2005, for best book published in Slavic/Eurasian/East European women’s studies.

(Co-authored with Giulietto Chiesa.) Transition to Democracy: Political Change in the Soviet Union, 1987-1991 (University Press of New England, expanded edition 1993). (Published in Russian translation as Perekhod k demokratii [Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 1993].)

Book series:

Series editor, Central Eurasia in Context: History, Culture, Politics; Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. Thirteen volumes published to date, more in production. Two have won the annual CESS Book Prize: one in History/Humanities, 2011; another in Social Sciences, 2014.

Series co-editor (with Michael Adas and Heather Streets-Salter), Cambridge Comparative World History; Cambridge Univ. Press (since 2014).

Articles:

(Co-authored with Cameron Gibelyou.) “Webs of Knowledge: Crossing Disciplines to Teach the Universe,” in Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev, eds., Education and Understanding: Big History Around the World (vol. 2 of From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology) (Delhi: Primus Books, 2016), 73-80.

“The Challenge of World History,” in A Companion to World History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 1-12.

“Other Globes: Shifting Optics on the World,” in A Companion to World History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 497-526.

“Down with the Veil! Testing the Limits of Liberation in Uzbekistan, 1927-1941,” The Ultimate History Project (online), 16 April 2012.

“Envisioning Empire: Veils and Visual Revolution in Soviet Central Asia,” in Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds., Picturing Russia: Essays on Visual Evidence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 162-8.

“Hujum,” in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 2:501-2.

“The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan,” in Russell Zanca and Jeff Sahadeo, eds., Everyday Life in Central Asia (Indiana University Press, 2007), 89-102.

“Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family Law,” Slavic Review 60:1 (Spring 2001), 115-39. Revised version published in Lynne Viola, ed., Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s (Cornell University Press, 2002), 109-38. Reprinted in Bhavna Dave, ed., Politics in Modern Central Asia (Routledge, 2009), 1:281-306. Winner of Heldt Prize for best article published in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s studies.

“Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity,” in Ronald Suny and Terry Martin, eds., State of Nations: The Soviet State and Its Peoples (Oxford University Press, 2001), 191-220. Winner of National Graduate Essay Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies. Published in Russian translation by ROSSPEN, 2010.

“Hujum: Unveiling Campaigns and Local Responses, Uzbekistan 1927,” in Donald Raleigh, ed., Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-53 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), 125-45.

“Languages of Loyalty: Gender, Politics, and Party Supervision in Uzbekistan, 1927-41,” Russian Review 59:2 (April 2000), 179-200.

“Reconsidering Sultan-Galiev,” in Gail Lapidus and Corbin Lyday, eds., Selected Topics in Soviet Ethnopolitics (Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1992), 1-44.

On teaching:

“From Uzbekistan to the Universe: Global Scales, Patterns, and Connections,” Michigan History newsletter, fall 2010.

Book reviews:

Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism (Univ. of Washington Press, 2006), published in American Historical Review 113:5 (Dec. 2008), 1630-1.

Nicholas Breyfogle, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005), published in Canadian American Slavic Studies 41:4 (Winter 2007), 445-7.

Robert Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006), published in Slavic Review 66:3 (Fall 2007), 550-52.

Arne Haugen, The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), published in Europe-Asia Studies 56:8 (December 2004), 1261-2.

Eric Lohr, Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I (Harvard University Press, 2003), published in Canadian American Slavic Studies (2004), 307-9.

Mary Masayo Doi, Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan (Bergin & Garvey, 2002), published in Russian Review 62:1 (January 2003), 179-80.

Research Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

International Scholar, Central Asia Research and Training Initiative, Open Society Institute (2009-12).

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2003-06).

Balzan Fellowship, UCLA (invited by Balzan prizewinner Nikki Keddie, 2005-06) (declined).

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003-04).

U.S. State Department Freedom Partnership Grant, co-main author (2003-06).

European Union Center of California Faculty Research Award (1999-2000).

At Michigan:

Helmut Stern Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities (2016-17).

Associate Professor Support Fund (2011-13).

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Faculty Fellowship (2008-09).

OVPR Faculty Research Grant (2006).

Predoctoral:

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1991-93) and Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (1997).

National Security Education Program Graduate International Fellowship (1994-97).

Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Fellowship (1994-95).

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (1991, honorary).

Selected Scholarly Presentations

Invited lectures at various institutions including: the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences; Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Ohio State, Georgetown, George Mason, Emory, Michigan State, UC-Santa Cruz, South Carolina, Williams, Miami of Ohio, Toronto, and British Columbia.

Many scholarly papers presented at various conferences and national conventions, since 1996; including annual meetings of ASEEES [AAASS], MESA, CESS, WHA, and ASN. For example:

“Earthquakes on the Edge: Border Spaces and Empire Making Along the Eurasian Frontier,” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, 11 September 2014.

“Building a New City: Earthquakes in Tashkent,” Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, invited lecture, international seminar series, 16 March 2012.

“Seismic Cultures on the Eurasian Frontier,” AAASS National Convention, Los Angeles, November 2010.

“Commemorating Catastrophe: Memories of Earthquakes on the Russian/Soviet Frontier,” AAASS National Convention, Boston, November 2009.

“Zoom: Disciplining Big History,” World History Association National Convention, Salem, Massachusetts, June 2009.

“Empire of Disaster: Earthquakes and Cultural Encounters in Central Asia,” AAASS National Convention, New Orleans, November 2007.

“A Visual Voice: Muslim Women and the Choice to Un/Veil,” invited participant in symposium on “Eurasian Women and Self-Reliance,” California State University—Long Beach, 22 March 2007.

“Visual Revolutions in Central Asia,” AAASS National Convention, Boston, 4 December 2004.

“Connections, Encounters, Disasters: Central Asian Earthquakes in Global Perspective,” CESS National Convention, Bloomington, Indiana, 14-16 October 2004.

“The Contested Space of Disaster: Earthquakes and Rebuilding in the Soviet ‘East,’ ” invited for international conference on Soviet socialism, University of Toronto, 4-6 April 2003.

“Legislating Liberation: Uzbek Women, Soviet Law, and the Question of Banning the Veil,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, Conn., 6-9 June 2002.

“Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity,” The Historical Society National Conference, Atlanta, 16-18 May 2002.

“Crimes of Daily Life: Law Codes and Soviet Power in Central Asia,” invited for All-California Russian History Conference, UCLA, 9-10 April 1999.

Invited participant, conference on “New Perspectives on Domination, Violence, and Social Control in the Late Stalin Era,” Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 21-23 May 1998.

“Gender Relations and Uzbek Identity,” invited for conference at the Center for Advanced Studies on Peace and International Cooperation, University of Chicago, 24-26 October 1997.

“Stalin’s Central Asia? Archival Records of Uzbek Family Life in the 1930s,” symposium at the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project, University of Toronto, 19-22 June 1997.

“Hujum: Unveiling and the Religious Response, Uzbekistan, 1927,” Middle East Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, 22-24 November 1996.

Teaching Fields

Central Asia/Islamic world World/Global History

Russia/Soviet Union Modern Europe/Eastern Europe

Empire/colonialism Gender/women’s history

Environmental history Cultural history

Teaching Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

National.

Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Teaching Fellowship (2006-07).

University of Michigan.

John Dewey Teaching Award (2014).

Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize (2011). “ZOOM: Teaching Time, Space, and Approaches to Knowledge.”

Teaching with Technology Institute (2010-11), “Zoom: Cross-Disciplinary Linkages on the Web.”

Gilbert Whitaker Fund Award (2009-2012), Stages I and II, with Robert Bain, Kathleen Canning, Penny Von Eschen.

Stanford University.

Centennial Teaching Assistant. (University award for one History TA.)

Teaching Experience

Surveys:

o ZOOM: A History of Everything

o The World Since 1492 (regular and Honors versions)

o From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia

o Modern Russia, the Soviet Union, and After

o The Making of Russia, ca. 850 to 1861

o Modern Europe, 1789-1989

Colloquia:

o Catastrophe: Natural Disasters and Human Society

o Gender and Empire

o Contemporary Issues in Central Asia

o Understanding Afghanistan

o Power and Resistance Under Stalin

o Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in the Soviet Empire

o Revolt and Rebellion in Eastern Europe

o Colloquium in Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Sexuality

o Colloquium in Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Cities

o Colloquium in Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Crossing Borders: Trade and Trafficking

Graduate colloquia:

o Encounter/Exchange, Connect/Compare: Colloquium in World and Global History

o Borders & Barriers, Conduits & Connections: Colloquium in Central Eurasian History

o Colloquium in Modern European History

o Dissertation Workshop

Ph.D. committees: (Univ. of Michigan, except as noted) (* - main or co-advisor, with placement)

Defended (in reverse chronological order): (15)

Everett Peachey: impacts of US public diplomacy in Eurasia (sociology) (2017)

Anna Genina: Kazakh oralmandar, “returnees” from mass emigrations (cultural anthropology) (2015)

*Krista Goff: postwar Caucasus—ethnicities in/outside the state (history) (2013) (tenure-track, Miami)

*Sarah Hamilton: Iberian and global environmental history (history) (2013) (tenure-track, Auburn)

Kristin Meyer: women’s health/fertility & social change in Kyrgyzstan (public health) (2011)

Heather McGee: collective action in Kyrgyz water associations (political science / public policy) (2011)

*Ian Campbell: Kazakh intellectuals and Russian geographers on tsarist steppe (history) (2011) (tenure-track, UC-Davis) (departmental choice for ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, 2011-12, and co-winner of Arthur Fondiler Dissertation Prize, History Department

Susanne Cohen: gender and business communication in St. Petersburg (linguistic anthropology) (2009)

Lisa Fein: Estonian citizenship and integration (sociology) (2009)

*Eva-Marie Dubuisson: politics of aitys, Kazakh oral poetry (linguistic anthropology) (2009) (tenure-track, Boğazici)

*Chiara De Santi: Sovietization in 1920s Central Asia (history, European University Institute, 2009) (second Ph.D. in Italian, Wisconsin; lecturer, SUNY-Fredonia)

Sonja Luehrmann: religion and antireligion in Marii-El (anthropology/history) (2008)

Madina Goldberg: cultural politics and theater in Tatarstan (history) (2008)

Lauren McArthur Harris: world history textbooks, pedagogy, curriculum (education) (2008)

Alex Bates: narratives of 1923 Tokyo earthquake (Asian languages and cultures) (2006)

Dissertations in progress (ABD): (8)

*Anna Whittington: identity, citizenship, subjecthood in USSR and Central Asia (history) (write-up stage)

*Kimberly Powers: gender and bureaucracy in tsarist empire-making, the Kazakh Inner Horde (anthropology/history) (write-up stage) (staff, Illinois-Urbana/Champaign)

Ujin Kim: languages of moral economy among the Kazakh nomads of Xinjiang (anthropology) (write-up stage)

Jeremy Johnson: gender and education in the Caucasus (anthropology/history) (write-up stage)

Said Gaziev: gender and law in Russian Turkestan (history) (external supervisor, Freie Universität Berlin) (write-up stage)

Cristian Capotescu: humanitarian relief and politics in Romania (history) (write-up stage)

Tapsi Mathur: travelers and intermediaries in colonial South Asia (history) (write-up stage)

Chris Fort: Uzbek Soviet literature (Slavic) (write-up stage)

Pre-candidacy (coursework): (1)

*Amit Sadan: natural disasters in modern Iran (history)

Prelims only: (2)

Ben Sawyer: class and ethnicity in modern Russia (history, Michigan State) (2008)

Jonathan Glassman: modern Islam (Near Eastern Studies) (2005)

Undergraduate programs designed/supervised: Central Asian Studies (ICP, Molly Touran)

Undergraduate honors theses: Elizabeth Teifer (AAPTIS, sexuality in contemporary Uzbekistan)

Moderator, “From Chechnya to Kabul: New Directions in Central Asian and Caucasus Studies,” Central Asian-Caucasus Training Workshop for Junior Scholars, University of Illinois-Urbana, June 2007.

Co-director (with Bob Bain), “Thinking and Teaching in Global Dimensions,” May Seminar for U-M faculty and graduate students, May 2009.

See also (on ZOOM): Lauren McArthur Harris and Sarah Hamilton, “Challenges and Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Big History Discussion Sections,” World History Connected 6:3 (Oct. 2009).

“Teaching the Seams: Approaching Big History,” presentation at Stanford University, 5 May 2011.

“Silk Road/Central Asia,” instructor in NEH Summer Seminar, Ohio State University, July 2016.

Course Designer, “Central Asia through Global Eyes,” University of Central Asia, 2016-2017.

Professional Experience and Faculty Service

University of Michigan (2004-present):

Associate Chair, History Department.

Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. (Title VI NRC/FLAS.)

Associate Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. (Title VI NRC/FLAS.)

Chair, Search Committee, modern Central Asian studies (open-rank, cross-departmental).

Chair, Search Committee, Central Asian studies postdoctoral fellowship.

Chair, Search Committee, Uzbek language lecturer.

Executive Committee, History Department.

Search Committee, Palmer Chair in History (endowed professorship).

Search Committee, African History, open-rank cluster hire.

Search Committee, global environmental history.

Search Committee, South/Southeast Asian Islam, open-rank.

Founding caucus chair, global/world/international/transregional/edges/comparative/ connective history.

Co-coordinator, Russian/Soviet History Workshop.

Presidential Interdisciplinary Junior Faculty Initiative Committee, History. (Cluster approved: “Environment, Information, and Sustainable Development” - with new environmental history FTE.)

Junior faculty mentor, History.

Tenure and promotion panel, History.

Tenure advisory committee, LSA.

University-wide Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award committee.

Directors’ Council, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Directors’ Council, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Executive Committee, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

Executive Committee, Armenian Studies Program.

Faculty Steering Committee, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Advisory Committee, Center for International and Comparative Studies.

History Department website advisory committee.

Fellowship and Admissions Committee, CREES.

Fellowship and Admissions Committee, CMENAS.

Lecturer Review Committee, History.

Lecturer Review Committee, NES.

Undergraduate Committee, NES.

Student Advisor and Coordinator, AAPTIS/NELC/NEC (undergraduate).

Student Advisor, REES (graduate and undergraduate).

Student Advisor, MENAS (graduate and undergraduate).

Nominated for Excellence in Concentration Advising Award, 2009.

Awards Committee, CREES.

France Exchange Program Coordinator, History.

Manoogian Chair Tenure Advisory Committee.

Program Faculty, Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

Center for Russian and East European Studies Faculty Associate.

Center for Middle East and North African Studies Faculty Associate.

Islamic Studies Program Affiliated Faculty.

Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Faculty Associate.

University of Georgia (1999-2004):

Faculty Research Colloquium in History, founder and coordinator.

Center for Humanities and the Arts Faculty Seminar in Russian History, co-coordinator.

World History Program (Ph.D. minor field), founding coordinator.

Central Asia Task Force, co-founder and chair.

Graduate Faculty Member and Honors Faculty Member.

Regents Academic Advisory Committee on History.

History Department Policy Committee and Student Prize Committee.

Search Committee, Chinese History.

Planning Committee, CHA International Symposium on Central Asia.

Southern Seminar in Eurasian Studies, co-founder and organizer.

Pitzer College (1998-99):

Convenor (Department Chair), History Field Group.

Graduate Studies Advisor, History.

Gender and Feminist Studies Field Group.

International and Intercultural Studies Field Group.

External Studies Committee. Chair, Italy Program Review.

Outside and other service:

President, Central Eurasian Studies Society (2016-2017). Executive committee (2015-2018).

Search committee, administrative coordinator (2016).

Executive board, Central Eurasian Studies Society (2005-2008).

National conference co-chair; awards committee chair; election committee.

Executive board, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (2006-2012).

Fellowship selection committee, National Endowment for the Humanities (Library of Congress Kluge Fellowships), 2006.

Fellowship assessment reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006-2007.

Fellowship assessment reviewer, Central Asian programs, ACCELS/ACTR (since 2007).

Language evaluator, Central Asian and Russian programs, ACCELS/ACTR (since 2007).

Fellowship selection committee member for IREX (since 2000): Contemporary Issues Fellowship; Regional Scholar Exchange; Policy Connect Collaborative Fellowship.

Peer reviewer: Cornell University Press; Cambridge University Press; Duke University Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; Wiley-Blackwell; McGraw-Hill; Sage; Slavic Review; Russian Review; Kritika; Canadian Slavonic Papers; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Journal of Women’s History; Oral History Review; Cultural Anthropology; American Anthropologist; History Compass; Journal of Imperial & Post-Colonial Studies.

Tenure/promotion external reviewer: since 2006, usually 1-2 confidential cases per year.

Tenure/manuscript workshop, external respondent: UNC - Chapel Hill, 2015.

Committee on Book Publishing, American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2013-2014.

Committee on the Status of Women, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006-2009.

Membership committee, Southern Historical Association, 2000-04.

Editorial board, Central Asian Survey, 2015-2020.

Editorial board, world history section, History Compass.

Editorial advisory board, “Imperial Encounters in Russian History,” book series at Academic Studies Press (with series editor Gary Marker).

Professional Associations

Life member: American Historical Association; Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Central Eurasian Studies Society; World History Association; Association for Women in Slavic Studies; and Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.

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