Muriel A. Atkin
Muriel A. Atkin
Professor Emerita of History
Emeriti Faculty
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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.
Russia, Tajikistan, Iran, and Central Asian history
Ph.D., Yale University
"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.