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Educational Background

B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Teaching Interests

• Early Modern and Modern Middle Eastern History; Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Eurasia; Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; Environmental History; Travels and Discoveries

Research Interests

• Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Eurasia; Frontiers and Borderlands; Environmental History; Empire; Safavid and Qajar dynasties

Selected Research and Publications

• The Open Land: Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran (University of Washington Press, forthcoming)
• "To the River's Edge: The Oxus and the Boundaries of Early Modern Iran and Central Asia" Where Is the Middle East?, eds. Michael Bonine and Abbas Amanat (submitted).
• "On the Eastern Borderlands of Iran: The Baluch in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Books," History Compass, 5, 4 (Oxford Blackwell, 2007), pp. 1399-1411.
• "The Turkmen in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Persian Chronicles," Central Eurasian Studies Review, 6, 1-2 (2007), pp. 8-13.
• "Tribes of the Homeland," Proceedings of the Oxford Conference on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, eds. Houchang Chehabi and Vanessa Martin (IB Tauris, forthcoming).
• “The Bakhtiyari Tribes in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 25, 2 (Duke University Press, 2005), pp. 377-398.
• “Hazarajat,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 12, 1, 2003, pp. 76-81.
• “Helmand River,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 12, 2, 2003, pp. 173-176.
• “Herat-Historical Geography,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 12, 2, 2003, pp. 203-205.
• Review of The Political Development of the Kurds, in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 28, 1, 2008.
• Review of Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941, in Iranian Studies (forthcoming).
• Review of Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival, in Iranian Studies, 39, 4, 2006.
• Review of The Kirghiz and the Wakhi of Afghanistan, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 36 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 503-504.