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Ali F. Igmen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of History |
Professor Igmen’s research interests include Central Asia, Eurasia, Russia, Soviet Union, Middle East, China, World, Theater and Oral History.
BA: University of Uludag; MPIA: University of Pittsburgh; MA: University of Washington, Ph.D. University of Washington, 2004
“Viewing Kyrgyz Politics through ‘Orientalist’ Eyes.” Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, (Winter 2007)
Finding History in Chingiz Aitmatov’s Early Prose and in the Memories of Veterans: Kyrgyz Women of “The Great Patriotic War” in Changing Memories of War: a collection of Essays, Yotam Hotam and Sharon Gordon (ed.) Forthcoming: Magnes Press (2007)
“Central Eurasia Across the Curriculum and Beyond Institutional Walls: A Tale From Real Life.” Co-author: Daniel C. Waugh, Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, 4/2 (Summer 2005)
Social Science Research Council, Eurasia Program Dissertation Development F, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan April 2003
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship in Kyrgyzstan, 2001-02
Rondeau Laverne Evans Dissertation Fellowship for research in Turkey in Winter 2000
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for Dissertation Research, 2000-2001
Maclyn P. Burg Scholarship for research in Turkey in Summer 1999
Social Science Research Council Fellowship for Tajik language training in Summer 1997
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for Russian in Summer 2000; 1996-97; and Summer 1996
United States Information Agency Grant for teaching and research in Kyrgyzstan, 1995
Social Science Research Council fellowship for Kyrgyz language training in Summer 1993
HISTORY 302:
Theory and History
HISTORY 396:
Contemporary World History
HISTORY 402:
Oral History Methods
HISTORY 431/531:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 600-1700
HISTORY 432/532:
Middle East (Southwest Asia) 1700-Present
HISTORY 499:
Senior Seminar: Islam, Reform and Revolution in Central Asia
HISTORY 590:
Comparative History: From Empires to Nations in Eurasia
Courses taught at University of Wisconsin, Madison:
HISTORY 332:
Islam, Reform and Revolution in Central Asia
HISTORY 600:
Twentieth-Century Central Asia
Courses taught at University of Washington, Seattle
HISTORY 494:
From Russia with Love: American and Europeans in the USSR
HISTORY 498:
Stalinism and Islam