Douglas Taylor Northrop(Page 1)
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1029 Tisch Hall, 435 South State Street
The University of Michigan(734) 764-6305 departmental office
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003(734) 647-4881 departmental fax
Employment
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Associate professor of modern Central Asian studies, 2004-present.
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-present.
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 (now underway):
Five Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire on the Eurasian Frontier (in research stage).
A Companion to World History (edited volume: under contract, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
Book series editor, Central Eurasia in Context: History, Culture, Politics; Univ. of Pittsburgh Press.
Books:
An Imperial World: Empires and Colonies Since 1750 (in press: Prentice-Hall, “Connections” Series in World History, 2011).
Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2004). Winner of 2006 AAASS W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, 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 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].)
Articles:
“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 Univ. 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, 2011.
“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.
See also: Lauren McArthur Harris and Sarah Hamilton, “Challenges and Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Big History Discussion Sections,” World History Connected 6:3 (Oct. 2009).
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 (2009-11).
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:
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: Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Georgetown, George Mason, Emory, Michigan State, UC-Santa Cruz, South Carolina, British Columbia, Miami of Ohio, Toronto, Williams.
Many scholarly papers presented at conferences and national conventions, including annual meetings of AAASS, MESA, CESS, WHA, and ASN.
Selected (recent) presentations:
“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.
Teaching Fields
Central Asia/Islamic worldWorld/Global History
Russia/Soviet UnionModern Europe/Eastern Europe
Empire/colonialismGender/women’s history
Environmental historyCultural history
Teaching Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
National.
Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Teaching Fellowship (2006-07).
University of Michigan.
Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize. “ZOOM: Teaching Time, Space, & Approaches to Knowledge.”
Teaching with Technology Institute (2010-11), “Zoom: Cross-Disciplinary Linkages on the Web.”
Gilbert Whitaker Fund Award (2009-2012), with Robert Bain, Kathleen Canning, Penny Von Eschen.
Stanford University.
Centennial Teaching Assistant. (University award for one History TA.)
Teaching Experience
Surveys:
- ZOOM: A History of Everything
- The World Since 1492 (taught in regular and Honors versions)
- From Genghis Khan to the Taliban: Modern Central Asia
- Modern Russia, the Soviet Union, and After
- The Making of Russia, ca. 850 to 1861
- Modern Europe, 1789-1989
Seminars:
- Catastrophe: Natural Disasters and Human Society
- Gender and Empire
- Understanding Afghanistan
- Contemporary Issues in Central Asia
- Power and Resistance Under Stalin
- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in the Soviet Empire
- Revolt and Rebellion in Eastern Europe
- Colloquium in Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Sexuality
- Colloquium in Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Cities
- Colloquium in Middle Eastern Studies: Crossing Borders: Trade and Trafficking
Graduate seminars:
- Encounter/Exchange, Connect/Compare: Colloquium in World and Global History
- Borders & Barriers, Conduits & Connections: Colloquium in Central Eurasian History
- Colloquium in Modern European History
Ph.D. committees: (19) (University of Michigan, except as noted) (* - main or co-main advisor)
Defended (in reverse chronological order):
Susanne Cohen: gender communication in post-Soviet Russia (ling. anthropology) (2009)
Lisa Fein: Estonian citizenship and integration (sociology) (2009)
*Eva-Marie Dubuisson: politics of aitys, Kazakh oral poetry (linguistic anthropology) (2009)
*Chiara De Santi: Sovietization in Central Asia (history, European Univ. Institute, 2009)
Sonja Luehrmann: religion & antireligious teaching in Marii-El (anthro/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:
Heather McGee: collective action in Kyrgyz water associations (political science / public policy) (scheduled defense 6/2011)
*Ian Campbell: Kazakh intellectuals and Russian geographers on tsarist steppe (history) (scheduled defense 5/2011)
Kristin Meyer: women’s health, fertility, and social change in Kyrgyzstan (public health)
Anna Genina: Kazakh oralmandar, “returnees” from emigration (cultural anthropology)
*Krista Goff: expatriate, sub-state, and non-titular communities in the Caucasus (history)
*Sarah Hamilton: global and Iberian environmental history (history)
Pre-candidacy:
Erica Feldman: linguistic and script change in Central Asia (linguistic anthropology)
*Kimberly Powers: gender and family law in the Kazakh steppe (anthropology/history)
*Ananda Burra: transnational cultures of the early Cold War (history)
Prelims only:
Ben Sawyer: class and ethnicity in modern Russia (history, Michigan State University) (2008)
Jonathan Glassman: modern Islam (Near Eastern Studies) (2005)
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.
Professional Experience and Faculty Service
University of Michigan (2004-present):
Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Directors’ Council, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
Associate Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
University-wide Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award committee.
Chair, Search Committee, modern Central Asian studies (open-rank, cross-departmental).
Caucus chair, global/world/international/transregional/edges/comparative/connective history.
Co-coordinator, Russian/Soviet History Workshop.
Junior faculty mentor, History (Pår Cassel).
Tenure and promotion panel, History (Farina Mir).
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.
Islamic Studies Program Affiliated Faculty.
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.
Regents Academic Advisory Committee on History.
Pitzer College (1998-99):
Convenor (Department Chair), History Field Group.
Gender and Feminist Studies Field Group. International and Intercultural Studies Field Group.
External Studies Committee. Chair, Italy Program Review.
Outside and other service:
Executive board, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (2006-2012).
Executive board, Central Eurasian Studies Society (2005-2008).
National conference co-chair; awards committee chair; election committee.
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 selection committee member for IREX (since 2000).
Committee on the Status of Women, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006-2009.
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 one or two cases per year.
Professional Associations
American Historical Association (life); American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (life); World History Association (life); Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (life); Central Eurasian Studies Society.
Research Languages
Russian, Uzbek; some German, Turkish, and Uyghur; limited reading ability in French and Ukrainian.