Mustafa Tuna, Assistant Professor

Mustafa Tuna (Ph.D. 2009, Princeton University) is Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Eurasian History and Culture in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of History. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, especially the Volga-Urals region and modern Turkey, since the early-nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in identifying the often intertwined roles of Islam, social networks, state or elite interventions, infrastructural changes, and the globalization of European modernity in transforming Muslim communities. He is married and has one son.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	05 Languages Building
Office Phone:	+1 (919) 660 3154
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~mt125

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• HISTORY 105IS.01, CULT EXCHANGE CONTINENTAL ASIA Synopsis

  Social Sciences 107, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

  (also cross-listed as AMES 153S.01, SES 106S.01)

• SES 185.01, ISLAM IN CENTRAL EURASIA Synopsis

  Languages 211, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 185.01, RELIGION 165.01, RUSSIAN 190.01)

Office Hours:

Wednesday 11 am - 12 noon or by appointment

Education:

PhD	Princeton University	2009
M.A. (History)	Princeton University	2004
M.A. (History)	Indiana University	2001
B.A. (International Relations) Valedictorian	Bilkent University, Turkey	1998

Specialties:

Politics, Public Life and Governance
Global Transnational History
Comparative Colonial Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Mustafa Tuna, Reconciling Observation with Revelation from Ghazali to Nursi: Reading of the "Book of the Universe" and a Paradigmatic Shift in the Islamic Tradition, in (tentative) Contemporary Islam: Nursi’s Response the Problems of the Islamic World, edited by Zeki Sarıtoprak (Accepted, 2012-13)  [abs]
2. Mustafa Tuna, Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: a View from the Late Russian Empire, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 53 no. 3 (Summer, 2011), pp. 540-70
3. Mustafa Tuna, Zapadnaia literatura istorii Tatar 18go-nachala 20go vv. [Western Literature on the History of Kazan Tatars between the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries], in Istoriia Tatar s drevneishikh vremen, vol. 6, edited by Il’dus Zagidullin (Accepted, 2011), Institut istorii im. Sh. Mardzhani (forthcoming in 2012.)  [abs]
4. Mustafa Tuna, "Rusya Müslümanlarının Modernite İle Karşılaşması (The Encounter of Russia's Muslims with Modernity)", in Avrasya Konuşmaları: Medeniyet, Modernite, Kimlik (Eurasian Conversations: Civilization, Modernity, Identity), edited by Sevinç Alkan Özcan (2010), Küre Yayınları, Istanbul, Turkey
5. Mustafa Tuna, Gaspıralı vs. Il’minskii: Two Identity Projects for the Muslims of the Russian Empire, Nationalities Papers, vol. 30 no. 2 (2002), pp. 265-289