IU School of Liberal Arts

Eren Murat Tasar

Campus Address: CA-504B
Phone: (317)274-3940
Fax: (317)278-7800
Email: etasar@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Assistant Professor of History, Islamic - Affiliated Faculty, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University Bloomington - Affiliated Faculty, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University Bloomington

Education

Ph.D History, Harvard University 2010 - A.M. History, Harvard University 2006 - A.B. International Relations, Stanford University 2001

Academic Interests

Central Asia, Institutions, Islam, Religion and Politics, Social History, Soviet Union

Teaching

D314: Soviet Social and Cultural History H108: Perspectives on the World to 1800 H425: The Modern Middle East I100: Introduction to International Studies

Publications

“Soviet Policies toward Islam: domestic and international considerations” in Phillip Muehlenbeck, ed. Religion and the Cold War: a global perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012). - “Islamically Informed Soviet Patriotism in Postwar Kyrgyzstan” in Cahiers du monde Russe 52/2-3, 2011. - “The Central Asian Muftiate in Occupied Afghanistan, 1979-1987” in Central Asian Survey 30:2, July 2011. - Review of Michael Kemper & Stephan Conermann, eds. The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies (New York: Routledge, 2011) in Central Asian Survey, 32:1, 2013 (forthcoming). - Review of Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, Stefan Reichmuth, eds. Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and its Successor States (London: Routledge, 2010) in Ab Imperio, 4/2011, 45-50. - Review of Paul Stronski, Tashkent: forging a Soviet city, 1930-1966 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) in Social History, 36, 4, November 2011, 526-528.

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