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| Mustafa O. Tuna, Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
 - Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- Thursday @ 11:30 am-12:30 pm
- Education:
| Ph.D. | Princeton University | 2008 |
| PhD | Princeton University | 2009 |
| M.A. | Princeton University | 2004 |
| M.A. | Indiana University at Indianapolis | 2001 |
| B.A. (International Relations) Valedictorian | Bilkent University, Turkey | 1998 |
- Specialties:
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International Comparative Studies
Turkish Studies
- Research Interests: Turkic and Muslim peoples of Central Eurasia
Current projects:
Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity in the Volga-Ural Heartland, 1788-1917., “Kazan Tatar Teachers’ School: The Successful Failure of Russification in Late Imperial Russia.” Under review., “Empire Gone Astray: the Story of Nikolai Ivanovich Il’minskii and His Followers.”, “Another Turkish Modernization: Response of the Grassroots.” Mustafa Tuna's research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, especially Russia's Volga-Ural 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. His first book, titled Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788-1917, is under contract with Cambridge University Press to be published in the "Critical Perspectives on Empire Series." And his second book project investigates the transmission and evolution of Islamic knowledge and practices comparatively in the Ottoman/Turkish and Tsarist/Soviet cases.
- Areas of Interest:
- Turkic and Muslim peoples of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union
Islam and modernity
Empire as a subject of historical analysis
Networks as a subject and instrument of historical analysis
Russian empire and the Soviet Union
Late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
The survival and transformation of Islamic tradition in Republican Turkey
Jewish experience in major empires
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Tuna, M. "At the Vanguard of Contemporary Muslim Thought: Reading Said Nursi into the Islamic Tradition." Journal of Islamic Studies 28.3 (September, 2017): 311-340. [doi]
- Tuna, M. ""Pillars of the Nation": The Making of a Russian Muslim Intelligentsia and the Origins of Jadidism." Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 18.2 (2017): 257-281. [doi]
- Tuna, M. "Imperial Russia's Muslims Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788–1914." Cambridge University Press, May, 2015 [abs]
- Tuna, M. "Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: a View from the Late Russian Empire." Comparative Studies in Society and History 53.3 (Summer, 2011): 540-70.
- Tuna, M. "Zapadnaia literatura istorii Tatar 18go-nachala 20go vv. [Western Literature on the History of Kazan Tatars between the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries]." Istoriia Tatar s drevneishikh vremen 6 (2013). [abs]
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