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Adrienne Edgar

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20th Century Russia, Central Asia


Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1999

Office: HSSB 4212 Hours:
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: edgar@history.ucsb.edu

Current Projects

  • Interethnic Marriage in Soviet Central Asia

Selected Publications

  • Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
  • “Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet 'Emancipation' of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective," Slavic Review vol. 65, no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 252-272.
  • “Portrait of Lenin: Carpets and National Culture in Soviet Turkmenistan,” in Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds., Russian Visual Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
  • "The Fragmented Nation: Genealogy, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in Turkmenistan," in Paul Spickard, ed., Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (New York and London: Routledge, 2005).
  • “Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule, 1924-1929,” Russian Review, vol. 62, no. 1 (January 2003), pp. 132-149.
  • "Genealogy, Class, and 'Tribal Policy' in Soviet Turkmenistan, 1924-1934," Slavic Review, vol. 60, no 2 ( Summer 2001), pp. 266-288.

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • 135B History of Russia, 1800-1917
  • 135C History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
  • 201E Advanced Historical Literature (Modern Europe)
  • 135P Proseminar in Russian History
  • 183DR Readings in Central Asian History
  • 200E Historical Literature (Modern Europe)

Honors and Professional Activities

  • Berkshire Conference Article Prize, 2006