Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey 
, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
Muriel A. Atkin
Professor of History
Office: Phillips 336, 801 22nd Street, N.W.
Phone: (202) 994-6426
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: matkin@gwu.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise:
Russia, Tajikistan, Iran, and Central Asian history
Background:
Muriel Atkin is working on a study of the roles of Islam and nationalism in the political conflict in Tajikistan, a Central Asian republic. Her other research interests include Russian policy towards Muslims at home and abroad, and Russian/Soviet relations with Iran. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Russian history and Central Asia.
Selected Publications:
"Tajikistan, from de facto colony to sovereign dependency." Sovereignty after Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia, S.N. Cummings and R. Hinnebusch, eds. Columbia University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2011, pp. 304-325
"Central Asia and the Caucasus from the First World War." New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 5, F. Robinson, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 517-541.
Russia and Iran, 1780-1828. 2nd. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Press, 2008
"A President and His Rivals," in Power and Change in Central Asia , S.N. Cummings, ed. (2001)
"The Ambiguous Position of Women in Tajikistan," in Women in Central Asia , (2001).
"The Rhetoric of Islamophobia." Central Asia and the Caucasus 1 (2000): 123-132.