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Robert Crews

Assistant Professor, the Russian Empire, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, Afghanistan, Islam

E-mail: rcrews@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 2003

Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Columbia University; B. A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests

Empire, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Caspian Sea region, Islam

Courses Taught

  • Modern Afghanistan
  • Modern Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan
  • The Caucasus and the Muslim World
  • Violence, Islam, and the State in Central Asia
  • Introduction to the Humanities: Worlds of Islam
  • Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia
  • Graduate Research Seminar on Imperial Russia
  • History of Imperial Russia
  • Imperial Russian Historiography

Publications

  • For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006)
  • The Taliban and the Crisis of Modern Afghanistan, co-edited with Amin Tarzi (Harvard University Press, 2008)
  • “An Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed,” in Turkestan russe: une colonie pas comme les autres? eds., Svetlana Gorshenina and Sergei Abashin (Paris: Collection de l’IFEAC, forthcoming, 2008).
  • “Rewriting Europe’s Muslim Pasts,” European Studies Forum vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 5-11.
  • “Islamic Law, Imperial Order: Muslims, Jews, and the Russian State,” Ab Imperio no. 3 (2004): 467-490.
  • “Empire and the Confessional State: Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia,” American Historical Review vol. 108, no. 1 (February 2003): 50-83.
  • “Civilization in the City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Colonization of Tashkent,” Architectures of Identity in Russia, 1500-2000, eds., James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland (Cornell University Press, 2003), 117-132.

Awards and Fellowships

  • Dean’s Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2007-2008
  • Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching for First Years of Teaching, Stanford University, 2006-2007
  • William H. and Frances Green Faculty Fellow, Stanford University, 2006-2007
  • International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Research Grant (Azerbaijan and Georgia), Summer 2006
  • Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies, Spring 2003
  • Kennan Institute Research Scholar, Fall 2002
  • American University Senate Research Award, Summer 2001
  • Arbeitskreis Moderne und Islam/Working Group Modernity and Islam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 1999-2000
  • Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University, 1998-1999       
  • Princeton Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship, 1998-1999
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program Summer Stipend, 1998
  • History Department Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-1996, 1997-1998
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Russia and Uzbekistan,
    1996-1997
  • History Department and Near Eastern Studies Summer Research Grants, Princeton
    University, for research in Russia and language study in Turkey, 1995    
  • Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Turkish), Princeton University, 1994-1995