Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Washington. Department of History March 2015
Dissertation: “Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan,” directed by Professors Glennys Young and Joel Walker
M.A.I.S., University of Washington. Jackson School of International Studies, June 2006 Comparative Religion
B.A., Reed College. Department of Biology May 2002
Thesis: “Mr. Toad Goes for a Ride: Amphibian Decline, Its Causes, and Solutions through Management and Conservation,” directed by Professor Robert Kaplan
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
PUBLICATIONS
In print: two book reviews
In preparation: three articles
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
LECTURES AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Russian, Persian (Farsi and Tajiki), Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Arabic (proficient)
French, German, Coptic (reading)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, University of Washington, Department of History
Lecturer, Western Washington University, Department of Liberal Studies
Visiting Faculty, The Evergreen State College
Adjunct Faculty, Seattle University, Department of International Studies
Pre-doctoral Instructor, University of Washington
Teaching Assistant, University of Washington
SERVICE
MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Ph.D., University of Washington. Department of History March 2015
Dissertation: “Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan,” directed by Professors Glennys Young and Joel Walker
M.A.I.S., University of Washington. Jackson School of International Studies, June 2006 Comparative Religion
B.A., Reed College. Department of Biology May 2002
Thesis: “Mr. Toad Goes for a Ride: Amphibian Decline, Its Causes, and Solutions through Management and Conservation,” directed by Professor Robert Kaplan
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
- 2012-2013 Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Graduate Fellowship in Persian Studies
- 2012 International Research & Exchange Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Research Opportunity Fellowship
- 2011 Chester A. Fritz Fellowship for research in Kyrgyzstan
- 2011 Maurice and Lois Schwartz Fellowship for research in Central Asia
- 2010 Maurice and Lois Schwartz Fellowship for research in Central Asia
- 2009 Maurice and Lois Schwartz Fellowship for research in Central Asia
- 2009-2010 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, summer and academic year Russian
- 2008-2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, summer and academic year Persian
- 2008 INSER Language and Cultural Exposure Travel Award
- 2005-2006 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, academic year Uzbek
- 2004-2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, academic year Arabic
- 2004 Social Science Research Council Fellowship for Uzbek language study
PUBLICATIONS
In print: two book reviews
- “New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia.” The Silk Road 11 (2013): 215-6
- “New Turns on the Silk Road.” The Silk Road 9 (2011): 154-5
In preparation: three articles
- “Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan”
- “Memory, Modernity, and Islam in the Ferghana Valley: the Shrine of Takht-i-Sulaiman”
- “Muslim Women in Soviet Central Asia.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- 2017 “The Second Meccas of Kyrgyzstan: Sacred Topography, Prophets, and Authority in Islam” Authority in Islam: Dialectics of Fragmentation & Plurality, Bloomington, IN, March 24-25.
- 2016 “Baqshys and Biomedicine: The Balance of Healing in Central Asia” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Princeton, NJ, November 4.
- 2016 “Conflicts of Healing: Medical Resorts, Pilgrimage, and Shrines in the Ferghana Valley” Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body and Soul from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day, Birbeck University, London, July 15-16.
- 2016 “Bountiful Forest: The Fruits of Heaven at Arslanbob Ata” International Symposium on the Environmental Archive of Central Asia, Tashkent, April 18-19
- 2015 “Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 17
- 2015 “Becoming a Baqshy: Indigenous Healers in Rural Kyrgyzstan” Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2
- 2015 “Locating the Past: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3
- 2011 “Sacred Space in the Pamirs through the Eyes of European Travelers” Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, April 16
- 2004 “Apocryphal Texts and Their Communities: Authority in the Scripture on the Ten Kings” Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, September 10
LECTURES AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS
- 2015 “In the Archives,” UW Digital History Colloquium, Seattle WA, May 12
- 2014 “Shrines and Healing in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,” The Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Seattle, WA January 28
- 2014 “Shrines and Pilgrimage: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman,” UW History Department Colloquium, Seattle, WA, January 31
- 2012 “Pilgrimage and Shrines in Central Asia,” IREX, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, July 12
- 2012 “Negotiating Modernity: Places and Objects in the Context of Kyrgyzstan,” Research Seminar, Tian Shan Policy Center, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 12
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Russian, Persian (Farsi and Tajiki), Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Arabic (proficient)
French, German, Coptic (reading)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, University of Washington, Department of History
- 2017 History of the Muslim Middle East, 600-1800 CE
- 2016 The Silk Road: Travel, Exchange, and Culture in Eurasia
- 2015 The Muslim Near East: From Late Antiquity to the Present
Lecturer, Western Washington University, Department of Liberal Studies
- 2017 Islamic Civilization
Visiting Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- 2016 Russia and the Forging of Empires: Vikings, Mongols, and Slavs
- 2016 Beginning Russian Language
Adjunct Faculty, Seattle University, Department of International Studies
- 2015 East Meets West: A History of Travel Writers to and from the Islamic World
Pre-doctoral Instructor, University of Washington
- 2013/ 2014/ 2015 Middle Eastern History, 1453-1800
- 2011/ 2014 The Silk Road: Travel, Exchange, and Culture in Eurasia
- 2013 Teaching History (graduate seminar for new teaching assistants)
- 2011 Pilgrimage and Shrines in the Islamic World
- 2010 History of the Middle East: 1258-1798
Teaching Assistant, University of Washington
- 2014 African History: 1000-1880
- 2008/ 2011/ 2012/ 2014 The History of Christianity
- 2011 American Civilization: The First Century of American Independence
- 2009 The Ancient World
- 2008 War and Society in the Modern Middle East
- 2008 Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, 1750-2001
- 2007 The Medieval Middle East
- 2007/ 2008 Environmental Studies: Interdisciplinary Foundations
- 2003/ 2006 The World of Late Antiquity
- 2004 Western Religions
SERVICE
- 2013 Lead Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Washington
- 2010-2011 Graduate Liaison Committee, History Department, University of Washington
- 2009 Discussion Facilitator, American Councils for International Education – National Security Language Initiative for Youth, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
Central Eurasian Studies Society
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