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Robert Crews

Associate Professor, Russian Empire, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Islam
Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History

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

Muslim Networks, Empire, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran

Courses Taught

  • Modern Afghanistan
  • Modern Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan
  • Modern Iran
  • The Caucasus and the Muslim World
  • Violence, Islam, and the State in Central Asia
  • Modern Muslim Movements
  • The Russian Empire

Selected Publications

Books

Book Cover For Prophet and TsarFor Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006)

 

 

 

Book cover The Taliban and the Crisis of AfghanistanThe Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, co-edited with Amin Tarzi (Harvard University Press, 2008)

 

 

 

Book Cover: Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan BorderlandsUnder the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, co-edited with Shahzad Bashir (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

 

 

 


Articles and Book Chapters

  • Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, co-edited with Shahzad Bashir (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
  • “The Taliban and Nationalist Militancy in Afghanistan,” Contextualizing Jihadi Thought, eds., Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazemi (Hurst and Co., 2012).
  • “Muslim Networks, Imperial Power, and the Local Politics of Qajar Iran,” in Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts, ed., Uyama Tomohiko (Routledge, 2012).
  •  “Russian Conquest and Administration in Inner Asia (1865-1884),”, eds., Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Modern Period, eds., Edmund Herzig and Annette Bohr (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). 
  • “Russia Unbound:  Historical Frameworks and the Challenge of Globalism,” Ab Imperio no. 1 (2010):  53-63.
  •  “Liberating Afghanistan,” Middle East Institute Viewpoints (December 2009), 75-78.
  • “An Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed,” Turkestan russe: une colonie comme les autres? eds., Svetlana Gorshenina and Sergei Abashin (Paris: Collection de l’IFEAC, 2009), 79-106.
  • “Rewriting Europe’s Muslim Pasts,” European Studies Forum vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 5-11.
  • “Moderate Taliban?” The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 238-273.
  • “Epilogue:  Afghanistan and the Pax Americana,” with Atiq Sarwari, The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 311-355.
  • “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.

 

Selected Awards and Fellowships

  • 2009 Carnegie Scholar
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Russia and Uzbekistan, 1996-1997