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Muriel A. Atkin

Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs

Phillips 336
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6426
Fax: (202) 994-6231
E-mail: matkin@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University

Expertise:

Russia, Tajikistan, Iran, and Central Asian history

Background:

Professor Atkin received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.Phil. And Ph.D. from Yale University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Russian history and Central Asia.

Her publications include "Thwarted Democratization in Tajikistan," in Conflict, Cleavage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (1997); "Tajikistan: Reform, Reaction, and Civil War," in New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations (1997); The Subtlest Battle: Islam in Soviet Tajikistan (1989); Russia and Iran, 1780-1828 (1980); "The Rhetoric of Islamophobia," Central Asia and The Caucasus, no. 1, 2000; "The Rhetoric of Islamophobia" in Central Asia and the Caucus (2000); "A President and His Rivals," in Power and Change in Central Asia , S.N. Cummings, ed. (2001); "The Ambiguous Position of Women in Tajikistan," in Women in Central Asia , (2001).

Courses Taught:

Hist 101 Central Asia: Past and Present
Hist 145 Russia to 1801
Hist 146 Russia Since 1801
Hist 217 Readings/Research Seminar: Russia and Soviet Thought
Hist 218 Readings/Research Seminar: Soviet Nationalities
Hist 246 Seminar: History of Russia and USSR
Hist 297 Central Asian History

Last update: 07.10.08