Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Expert on Russian history, including the former U.S.S.R. and the role of Islam in Russia
Associate professor of Russian and Eurasian History, and Slavic Languages and Literatures
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contact at: (213) 740-1665 or arorlich@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Russian history
- identity discourse in Russian history
- ethnic politics in the Russian Federation
- Turkic states of the former U.S.S.R.
- Islam in Russia, the Soviet Union and the successor states
- Muslim women in Russia
- Tatars of the Volga region and the Crimea
- Central Asian history and culture
- Eurasian history
- Author of Ismail Gasprali. French and African Letters (2008) and The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience (1986)
Foreign Languages:
Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Tatar, French, Azeri and other Turkic languages
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