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Azade-Ayse Rorlich

Professor of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Contact Information
E-mail: arorlich@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-1665
Office: SOS 258

 

Education
Ph.D. History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1/1976
M.A. Russian History, University of Wisconsin Madison, 12/1972
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Rorlich studies Russian and Eurasian social and cultural history, including the history of the Turkic Muslim peoples of Russia. Her special research interests include : the social history of Muslim women in late imperial Russia,the identity discourse of the Muslim modernizers, Muslim visual culture, as well as the socio-political and cultural landscape of the post-Soviet Turkic republics.
 

Research Keywords
Russia/USSR/ Eurasia: Islam, identity, gender, visual culture .
 

Research Specialties
Russia/USSR/Eurasia : modernity studies, identity, gender, visual culture.
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region, Advisory Board Member
Initiative to Study Political Violence,http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/violence/index.html
International Turkic Eurasia Foundation, Advisory Board Member
 

Other Research
1. Forbidden and Blessed Images.The Visual Culture of the Volga Tatars:1906-1917 [Monograph] 2.Vignettes of Women's Lives and the Woman Question: The Muslims of Late Imperial Russia[Monograph] 3. Film and Identity :the Eurasia Film Festival [Journal article]. 4. "The Golden Minbar" Islamic Film Festival and "Euroislam" [Journal article]. 5."Working Within the System: A Muslim Woman Judge and Soviet Law" (Journal article), 2006-2007   
 

Honors and Awards
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, USC General Education Teaching Award, 2000-2001  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Member, Editorial Board :2007-8, International Journal of Turkish Studies, USA, 2006-2007   
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Communist and Post Communist Studies, USA, 2006-2007   
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, UK, 2006-2007   
Member, Editorial Board, Miras, Russia, 2006-2007   
Member, Editorial Board, Otan , Kazakhstan, 2006-2007   
 

Professional Offices
Member , Board of Directors, International Turkic Eurasia Foundation, 2006-2007   
 

Professional Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Central Eurasian Studies Society; European Society of Central Asian Studies; Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2006-2007   
 
 
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