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Robert Crews

Assistant Professor, Russian Empire, Central Asia, 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

The Russian Empire, Central Asia, the Caucasus; Russia in Iran and Afghanistan

Courses Taught

  • Modern Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan
  • Violence, Islam, and the State in Central Asia
  • Introduction to the Humanities: Worlds of Islam
  • Art and Ideas in Nineteenth-Century 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)
  • “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.
  • The Taliban and the Crisis of Modern Afghanistan, co-edited with Amin Tarzi (forthcoming)