Assistant Professor of Global History, Freie Universitat Berlin
Center Associate
Expertise:
History of the Soviet Union
History of Russia
History of Afghanistan
History of Iran
Current Project:
The Islamic Factor: Islamists, Socialists, and the Soviet Union in Cold War Eurasia
Education
D.Phil.
, History
, University of Oxford
Selected Publications:
Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (Cambridge UP, 2016).
Translator and Editor, Writings on War by Carl Schmitt (Polity, 2011).
"Getting Re Acquainted with the 'Muslims of the USSR': Staging Soviet Islam in Iran and Turkey, 1980 1982," Ab Imperio (4/2011).
"Under a Red Veil: Staging Afghan Emancipation in Moscow," The Soviet and Post Soviet Review 38, no. 1 (2011): 30 62.
"Soviet Nationalities Policy, USSR in Construction, and Soviet Documentary Photography in Comparative Context, 1931 1937," Ab Imperio no. 2 (2010).
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