Office Location: | 316 Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3154 |
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Web Page: | http://people.duke.edu/~mt125/ |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
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 |
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.