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I study the social and political history of China’s northwest, particularly the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its connections with the Islamic and Russian/Soviet worlds. After finishing my PhD in 2011, I spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, at the Australian National University, before coming to the University of Sydney in 2013. My first book, Uyghur Nation (2016), is on the politics of Uyghur nationalism between China and the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. I currently hold an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship, for a project entitled “Empire and Religion in Early Modern Inner Asia,” in which am exploring Inner Asian perspectives on the rise of the Qing in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.
History, School of Humanities (SOH)
Research interests:
I am happy to supervise work on modern Chinese history, national/ethnic politics in China (particularly Xinjiang), Central Asia in the colonial and Soviet periods, and on empire in Eurasia generally.
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