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- Austin Jersild
- Associate Professor & Chair
- History
- 835 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3953
- ajersild@odu.edu
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Education
- University of California - Davis,
1994
- Major: History
- Degree: Ph. D.
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
1989
- Major: Russian and East European Studies
- Degree: M.A.
- St. Olaf College,
1984
- Major: History, Russian Language
- Degree: B.A.
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Research Interests
- Russian empire
Sino-Soviet relations
socialist bloc exchange
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Expertise
- History
- Russia
- Russia
- Russia
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Books
- (2003). Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917. McGill-Queen's University Press.
- (2002). Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
- (2002). Russian Studies in History: Crisis in the Caucasus.
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Book Chapters
- "The Dilemmas of Enlightenment in the Eastern Borderlands: The Theater and Library in Tbilisi". (pp. 295-316). Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers.
- (1997). "From Savagery to Citizenship: Caucasian Muslims and Mountaineers in the Russian Empire". (pp. 101-114). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
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Articles
- (2004). "The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective: New Work on Contemporary Russian-Chechen Relations". Slavic Review, 63 (2), (pp. 366-376).
- (2002). "Guest Editor's Introduction: Crisis in the Caucasus". Russian Studies in History, 41 (2), (pp. 4-9).
- (2000). "Faith, Custom and Ritual in the Borderlands: Orthodoxy, Islam and the 'Small Peoples' of the Middle Volga and the North Caucasus". The Russian Review, 59 (4), (pp. 512-529).
- (2000). "'Russia,' from the Vistula to the Terek to the Amur". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 1 (3), (pp. 531-546).
- (2000). "Imperial Russification: Dagestani Mountaineers in Russian Exile, 1877-1883". Central Asian Survey, 19 (1), (pp. 5-16).
- (1999). "Rethinking Russia from Zardob: Hasan Melikov Zardabi an the 'Native' Intelligentsia". Nationalities Papers, 27 (3), (pp. 503-517).
- (1996). "Ethnic Modernity and the Russian Empire: Russian Ethnographers and Caucasian Mountaineers". Nationalities Papers, 24 (4), (pp. 641-648).
- (1995). "Who was Shamil? Russian Colonial Rule and Sufi Islam in the North Caucasus, 1859-1917". Central Asian Survey, 14 (2), (pp. 205-223).
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Presentations
- "Research Abroad"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
- "A Fulbright Scholar Speaks on Oldrich Havlicek and Zhen Peilu in Shanghai, 1955-1958"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: November 2, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Catch Up and Surpass: Consumerism and the Cold War, 1953-1959"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Virginia Beach, VA
- Date: March 13, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The 'Kitchen Debate' in Global Context, 1959"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: February 23, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The 'Kitchen Debate' in Global Context: Soviet Exhibits in China, 1953-1955"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: November, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Friendship, the Gift, Betrayal: The Chinese Subversion of the Soviet Friendship Society, 1945-1964"
- Conference Name: Georgetown University
- Sponsoring Organization: Georgetown University
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: April 22, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russia's Middle Class: An Optimistic View"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: January 28, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Friendship, the Gift, Betrayal: The Chinese Subversion of the Soviet Friendship Society, 1945-1964"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: January 26, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russia and Islam"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Richmond, VA
- Date: February, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Far from Moscow: Roundtable"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Date: November 20, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Champaign-Urbana, IL
- Date: June 24, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Soviet Pavilion at International Exhibits"
- Conference Name:
- Location: College Park, Maryland
- Date: May, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The War on Terror and the Flight from History: Russian-Chechen Relations"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Williamsburg, VA
- Date: April, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The War on Terror and the Flight from History: Russian-Chechen Relations"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: April 28, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Russian Empire in Global History: Roundtable"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: November, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Soviet Pavilion at International Exhibits"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: November, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Islamic Radicalism, the Chechen Wars, and the Russian Frontier"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: October, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russian Perspectives on Central Asia after 9/11"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Virginia Beach, VA
- Date: October, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Civic Association and Georgian Culture"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: November, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russia"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: September 21, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Nativism and Empire in the Russian Caucasus"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: April, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- Panel Chair/Discussant
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: April 14, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Cold War Culture in the Soviet Union"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: March 20, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Il'minskii Method in the North Caucasus"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Asheville, North Carolina
- Date: March 17, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Slavophilism in Imperial Context: Faith, Custom and Ritual in the Borderlands"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Date: November 8, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russi'as Time of Troubles"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: April 9, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Slavophiles, Faith, and the Frontier"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Alexandria, VA
- Date: March 26, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Khomiakov and Empire: Faith and Custom in the Borderlands"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boca Raton, FL
- Date: November, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Rethinking Imperial Russian History" - Roundtable
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boca Raton, FL
- Date: November, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Russian Orient"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Date: November, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russian Security Debates"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: October 25, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russia and the West in the Caucasus"
- Conference Name:
- Location: College Park, Maryland
- Date: April, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
- Conference Name: Association for the Study of Nationalities
- Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Study of Nationalities
- Location: Columbia University, New York
- Date: April 26, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Jersild, A.
- panel discussant
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: November 1, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russia on the Eve of the Presidential Elections"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: May 9, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Politics of Culture during the First Five Year Plan" - panel
- Conference Name:
- Location: Asheville, NC
- Date: April, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Russian Nationalism on the Edges of Empire"
- Conference Name:
- Location: New York, NY
- Date: April 27, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Noble Peoples, Savage Mountaineers"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: January 6, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
- From Savagery to Citizenship
- Conference Name:
- Location: Berkely, CA
- Date: September 23, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Islam and the Russian Empire: Shamil's Trip to the West, 1859"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Honololulu, HI
- Date: November, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
- "The Reinvention of Empire"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Madison, WI
- Date: October, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
- "Culturalism in the Caucasus as an Alternative Vision of Empire"
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: May, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
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