Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Studies
Campus:
IU Bloomington
Global and International Studies Building, 3025
Educational Background
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002
Regions of Interest
China
Research Topics
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang
History of modern Xinjiang
Historiography in China
Nationalism and ethnic conflict
Representative Publications
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. Columbia University Press (2010).
“Politics in Modern Xinjiang,” in Introduction to the Politics of China, ed. William Joseph. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 336-354.
“CCP Policies and Popular Responses in Xinjiang, 1949 to the present,” in Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, ed. Morris Rossabi (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), 117-54.
"Contested Histories" (with Nabijan Tursun). In Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), 353-74.
"Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent," Policy Studies 11 (Washington: East-West Center, 2004). (64 pages)
"Contested Histories," (with Nabijan Tursun) in Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004) 353-74.
"The Not-So-Silent Majority: Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang," Modern China 28, no. 1 (2002): pp. 39-78.
"The History of the History of Xinjiang," Twentieth Century China 26, no 1 (2001) pp. 95-139.