Muriel Atkin

Muriel Atkin is working on a study of the roles of Islam and nationalism in the political conflict in Tajikistan, a Central Asian republic. Her other research interests include Russian policy towards Muslims at home and abroad, and Russian/Soviet relations with Iran. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Russian history and Central Asia.

Selected Publications

Russia and Iran, 1780-1828. 2nd. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press Press, 2008.

"Tajikistan: A President and His Rivals." In Power and Change in Central Asia, ed. S.N. Cummings, 97-114. London: Routledge, 2002.

"The Rhetoric of Islamophobia." Central Asia and the Caucasus 1 (2000): 123-132.

"Tajikistan: A Case Study for Conflict Potential." The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 24, no. 3 (1999): 175-203.

"Tajikistan: Reform, Reaction, and Civil War." In New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations, ed. Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras, 602-627. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

The Subtlest Battle: Islam in Soviet Tajikistan. Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, The Philadelphia Policy Papers, 1989.

Courses Taught

Hist 195: History of Central Asia
Hist 145: Russia to 1801
Hist 146: Russia since 1801
Hist 217: Russia and Soviet Thought
Hist 218: Soviet Nationalities
Hist 246: Seminar: History of Russia and USSR
Hist 297: Central Asian History
Hist 297: Russian and Soviet Empires
Hist 801: Modern Iran (Dean's Seminar)

Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1976.