JAMES H. MEYER
Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University2-102 Wilson Hall
PO Box 172320
Bozeman, MT 59717-2320
E-mail: james.meyer7@Montana.edu
Website: http://www.jhmeyer.netAcademic Teaching Positions
Department of History and Philosophy. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Tenure-track assistant professorship in Islamic World History, teaching classes in Middle Eastern and Russian history.
Education and Degrees
Ph.D., Brown University, Department of History, 2007, Dissertation: “Turkic Worlds: Community Leadership and Collective Identity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1870-1914.” Finalist, “Best Dissertation: Social Sciences” Brown University, 2007
M.A., Brown University, History, 2002
M.A., Princeton University, Program in Near Eastern Studies, 2001, MA Thesis: “Memory and Political Symbolism in Post-September 12 Turkey: A History of the May 27th Debate.”
B.A.,McGill University, Department of English, 1991Fellowships, Grants, Awards
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center. Washington, D.C. Kennan Institute Research Scholarship, to be used January-August 2011.
Faculty Short-term Professional Development Leave Grant. Montana State University College of Letters and Science, November, 2009. To be used for archival research in St. Petersburg, Russia, Summer 2010.
National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowship for Research in Turkey, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship provided through the American Research Institute in Turkey, 2008-2009
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Post-Doctoral Fellowship relating to the Harriman Institute's Project on Russia and Islam, 2007-2008
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, National Research Competition Fellowship for six months in Russia and Georgia, 2007-2010
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Short-term Travel Grant, 2007 (Declined)
Institute of Turkish Studies, Post-Doctoral Summer Research Grant for Turkey, 2007
Council of American Overseas Research Centers: Multi-Country Research Fellowship (CAORC), Research Fellowship for three months in Turkey and Ukraine, 2006
Brown University, Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, 2006-2007
John Lax Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University Department of History, 2005
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, Russia, 2003-2004
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Scholarship (Principal Grantee), 2003-2004 (Declined)
International Research & Exchanges Board(IREX), IARO Program grant for four months in Azerbaijan, 2004
American Research Instittute in Turkey, Dissertation Fellowship for six months in Turkey, 2004-2005
Social Science Research Council: Eurasia Program, Pre-dissertation grant for Russia, Summer 2003
The American Councils ACTR/ACCELS, Pre-dissertation grant for Russia, Summer 2002
Institute of Turkish Studies, Pre-dissertation grant, 2002 (Declined)
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Travel Grant, 2002
William G. McLoughlin Travel Grant, Brown University, 2001
ACTR/ACCELS, Central and East European Language Study Fellowship, Hungary, Summer 2001
University Fellowship, Brown University, 2001-2002
Council on Regional Studies, Woodrow Wilson School and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Travel Grant for Istanbul, 2000
University Fellowship, Princeton University, 2000-2001Journal Articles
“For the Russianist in Istanbul and the Ottomanist in Russia: A Guide to the Archives of Eurasia," Ab Imperio, 4/2008, 281-301.
“Immigration, return, and the politics of citizenship: Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39:1, February 2007, 15-32.
Web-based Writings, Other Publications
"Division and Alliance: Mass Politics within Muslim Communities after 1905." Working paper prepared on behalf of National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER). November, 2009.
“Policy Watershed: Turkey’s Cyprus Policy and the Interventions of 1974.” Seminar paper placed upon web page Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, March, 2000.
Prior to entering graduate school, I also published several opinion pieces and articles on current events in Turkey and the Balkans in various journals and newspapers, including Middle Eastern Quarterly, Eastern European Quarterly, South Slav Journal (London), Turkish Daily News [Istanbul], and New Europe [Athens].
Workshops, Conferences, Invited Lectures
"Moving People and Suspect Subjects: Russian Muslims, Travel, and the Ottoman Empire." Paper presented at workshop entitled “Islam and Empire.” Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka University. Osaka, Japan. January 23-24, 2010.
“Politicizing Islam: Tsarist Officials and Protesting Muslims in Russia’s Volga Region, 1870-1905.” Brown-bag lecture presented at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 7, 2009.
“Imperial Fathers and National Sons: Self-Narration and Elite Muslim Families in the Late-Imperial Volga Region.” Presented at American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) annual conference, Boston, MA. November 15, 2009.
“Fear of Movement: Tsarist Officials and Muslim Mobility in Late Imperial Russia.” 2009 Fisher Forum, Russian East European and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Workshop entitled “Russia’s Role in Human Mobility-Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” sponsored by MacArthur Foundation. June 18th-20th, 2009.
“Rethinking the Intellectuals: Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu in Russia and the Ottoman Empire.” Presented at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference, Washington, DC. November 25, 2008.
"The Pan-Turkist specter: Russia and the threatening nature of Muslim mobility.” Presented at AAASS annual conference, Philadelphia, PA. November 21, 2008.
“Turkic Worlds: Russian Muslims, Ottoman Turkey, and the Marketing of Modern Identity,” Invited lecture at the University of British Columbia, Department of History. Vancouver, Canada, November 18, 2008.
“Marketing Modern Identity in the Late Imperial Era: Yusuf Akçura and Ahmet Ağaoğlu in Russia and the Ottoman Empire.” Presented at the American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul, November 3, 2008.
“The state, the spiritual assemblies, and Muslim community leadership in late imperial Russia.” Presented at conference entitled “Empire, conquest and faith: the Russian and Ottoman interaction, 1650-1920.” Columbia University, Harriman Institute. April 26, 2008.
"Re-imagining the empire: tsarist rule, Muslim communities, and community leadership politics in late imperial Russia." Koç University, Department of History, Istanbul, Turkey, February 21, 2008.
“Muslim community leadership politics in late imperial Russia: Divisions and coalitions.” Presented at a workshop entitled “Russian Empire: Reappraisal of Recent Research Agenda.” The University of Kyoto, Japan. December 10, 2007.
“Public lives and personal connections: Muslim intellectuals after 1905.” Presented at the Winter Symposium on Eurasian History, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. Sapporo, Japan. December 7, 2007.
"Subjects abroad: Muslim emigration and the politics of citizenship, 1860-1914." AAASS annual meeting, New Orleans. November 15, 2007.
“The Türk Yurdu Circle: Journalism, Identity, and Fame in the Young Turk Era.” Presented as part of the Ottoman/Turkish seminar series, Columbia University. November 9, 2007.
“On the educational front lines: Muslim cultural reform in rural Russia, 1890-1910.” Harriman Institute, Columbia University. November 1, 2007.
“From Administration to Politics: Muslim Communities and Community Leadership in Imperial Russia.” Invited Lecture, Department of History, University of Washington. January 30, 2007.
“Petitions, protests, and problem-solving: authority and representation in Volga Muslim communities.” AAASS annual conference, Washington, D.C. November 17, 2006.
“Migration, return, negotiation: Russian Muslims in the late-period Ottoman Empire." MESA annual conference, Washington, D.C. November 19, 2005.
“Systems and practices of representation among Volga Muslim communities in the late 19th century.” Second International Symposium on Islamic Civilization in the Volga-Ural Region: Kazan, Russia. June 24, 2005.
“Progress, Community, and the Fear of Extinction: The Rhetoric of the Volga Muslim Periodical Press, 1905-1910.” AAASS annual conference, Toronto, Ontario. November 20, 2003.
“Categorization Undermined: Union, Progress, and Identity among the Volga Muslims, 1905-1914.” Presented at the workshop “Categorization, Identification, and Recognition in the Soviet Context: A Comparative Perspective.” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. February 8, 2003.
“Overlapping Alternatives: Identity Discourse in the Muslim Periodical Press of Russia, 1905-1911.” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. December 4, 2002.
“Of Military Coups and Discursive Revolution: May 27th Remembered in Post-1980 Turkey.” Graduate Student Symposium, Brown University. March 2, 2002.
“Memory, Menderes and the 27th of May.” MESA annual conference: San Francisco, California. November 18, 2001.
“The Nurcus: Anti-Kemalist or Post-Kemalist?” MESA annual conference: Orlando, Florida. November 19, 2000.
Pedagogical and Teaching Experience
Montana State University, Department of History and Philosophy. Tenure-track position in Islamic World History. Classes taught in 2009-2010: Middle East in the 20th Century; Russia to 1917; the Making of Modern Turkey.
Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University, Teaching Certificate I Program, September 2005-April 2006. Completed year-long program on developing in-class techniques, class preparation, evaluation, syllabus-writing, grading, and presentation.
Teaching Assistant, Spring semester, 2006. HI 002: Modern Europe since the French Revolution (Prof. Joan Richards, instructor). Responsible for leading two discussion sections per week, grading papers and exams, consulting with students during office hours, and giving one lecture.
Senior Teaching Assistant. Spring Semester, 2003. HI 146: The Modern Middle East, 1914-present (Prof. Engin Akarlı, instructor). Responsible for grading papers, leading discussion sections, and consulting with students during office hours. Also responsible for coordinating the activities of two other teaching assistants.
Teaching Assistant. Fall Semester, 2002. HI 145: The Middle East in the 19th Century (Prof. Engin Akarlı, instructor). Responsible for grading papers, consulting with students during office hours, assisting students in the writing of their term papers.
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language. Istanbul, 1992-1999. Worked in a number of different environments, teaching classes of high school and university students and leading training sessions to groups of businesspeople at a number of corporations, including Pirelli, MNG Bank, Hewlett-Packard, and Phillip Morris. Twice participated in the coordination and teaching of a five-week summer course in business English for Koç Holding, the largest company in Turkey.
Foreign Language Proficiency
Turkish: Speak at level of educated native speaker.
Ottoman Turkish: Advanced. Can read printed and rika-script documents at advanced level.
Russian: Fluent.
Tatar: Fluent. Can read Arabic, Cyrillic and Latin scripts, including Arabic-script paleography.
Azeri: Fluent. Can read Arabic, Cyrillic and Latin scripts, including Arabic-script paleography.
Arabic: Intermediate reading knowledge--three years of undergraduate-level study and one year of private tutoring. (2001-2005).
Hungarian: Intermediate. Two years of private tutoring (1996-1998). Completed (with honors) 120-hour advanced-level course at Debrecen University (2001).
French: Upper-intermediate.
Italian: Upper-intermediate.
German: Basic. Am able to read literature related to my research with dictionary.Professional Affiliations
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS, since 2001)
American Historical Association (AHA, 2007)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA, 2000)
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS, 2003)Archive Research Experience
Georgian National Historical Archive, (Tbilisi, Georgia), April-May, 2009
Kutaisi Central Archive (Kutaisi, Georgia), April, 2009
Archive of the Autonomous Republic of Adjaria, (Batumi, Georgia), April, 2009
Prime Ministry Ottoman Archive, (Istanbul), September 2008-April 2009
Central State Historical Archive, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation. July-August, 2008
National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, (Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation), July, 2007
State Archive of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, (Simferopol’, Republic of Crimea, Ukraine), June-July, 2006
Azerbaijan State Historical Archive (Baku), August, 2005
National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, April 2005-August 2005
Prime Ministry Ottoman Archive, (Istanbul), 2004-April 2005
Azerbaijan State Historical Archive, (Baku), July-November, 2004
Central State Historical Archive, Republic of Bashkortostan, June, 2004
National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, April-June, 2004
Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (Moscow), March-April 2004
Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg), January 2004-March 2004
National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, August 2003-January 2004
National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan, July-August, 2002
Russian State Historical Archive, June-July, 2002Service and Conference Planning
Chair, panel entitled "Forging Networks in Peace and War: Rethinking the 'Social' in Late Imperial
Russia." AAASS annual conference, 2010 (Los Angeles).Participant in the Social Science Research Council's Eurasia Program "Teaching Islam in Eurasia" project, 2009-2010. Along with a collaborator I am producing an agenda-setting report identifying future research priorities pertaining to the teaching of Islam in Eurasia and the study of Islamic education.
Chief organizer, workshop for graduate students held at Harriman Institute, Columbia University. “Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Transregional and Comparative Approaches.” April 4-5, 2008.
Member, organizing committee, “Empire, Conquest and Faith: the Russian and Ottoman Interaction, 1650-1920.” (Project Coordinator, Professor Mark Mazower). Harriman Institute, Columbia University. 2007-2008.
Chair/discussant, panel entitled “Identity, Migration, and Transformations.” Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference. New York, March 29, 2008.
Panel organizer, “Mobility across Empires: Muslim Travelers and the Russian and Ottoman states." AAASS annual conference, Philadelphia, PA. November 21, 2008.
Panel organizer, “Mobility across Empires: Muslim Travelers and the Russian and Ottoman states." MESA annual conference. Washington, DC. November 25, 2008
Member, organizing committee, 2006 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “Space as a Category of Scholarly Analysis: New perspectives.” Brown History Graduate Student Society, April 7-8, 2006.