Pantheon of Heroes, Kazan 1912Sudak, CrimeaInterior of Blue Mosque, IstanbulSunset over the Black Sea, Sevastopol 2006Tatar Dancer, outside KazanSergiev Posad, RussiaOrtakoy, Istanbul

James H. Meyer

 

I am an historian of Russia and the Middle East, focusing especially upon incidences Turkic-Russian contact, both within the context of the Russian Empire and from a broader Russian/Ottoman/Turkish perspective. My work draws upon sources written in Russian, Ottoman Turkish, and various Turkic languages from the lands of the former USSR to look at issues like human mobility, communication, politics, and cross-cultural interactions in late imperial Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Turkey. A resident of Istanbul from 1992 to 1999, I received an MA from Princeton's program in Near Eastern Studies in 2001 and a PhD from the Department of History at Brown University in 2007. During the 2007-2008 academic year I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University. In 2008-2009 I researched in Turkey, Russia, and Georgia under the auspices of fellowships provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Since August of 2009 I have been working in a tenure-track position in Islamic world history at Montana State University, where I teach classes on the history of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the Middle East.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     

 

[Sunset over Sevastopol, 2006]