Volga-Ural region
Eduard Ponarin
e-mail:
edp@eu.spb.ru
Current position:
Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg
PhD:
Ph.D. (Sociology)
Research interests:
Nationalism and formation of national identities; ethnic and religious minorities; generational succession and social change; methodology. Muslim identities in the Russian Federation.
Anti-americanism in Russia. Russian nationalism in the globalizing world.
Selected publications:
Changing Federalism and the Islamic Challenge in Tatarstan. Forthcoming in Demokratizatsiya.
The Islamic Challenge in Russia’s Muslim Regions: The case of Tatarstan, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Summer/Fall 2006, pp. 21-25. (With Irina Kouznetsova-Morenko)
“Construction de l'identité nationale et islam: les Kurdes de Turquie et les Tatars de la Volga”, pp. 223-238 en Islam et politique en ex-URSS (Russie d’Europe et Asie Centrale), sous la direction de Marléne Laruelle et Sébastien Peyrouse. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005. (With Lilia Sagitova.)
Bulat R. Rakhimzyanov
e-mail:
bulatraim@yahoo.com
Current position:
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan
PhD:
кандидат исторических наук
Topic: Social and Political development of the Khanate of Kasimov (1445-1552 )
Research interests:
Muscovite and Imperial Russian History
Selected publications:
1. Рахимзянов Б.Р. Касимовское ханство (1445-1552 гг.). Очерки истории. – Казань: Татар. кн. изд-во, 2009. – 207 c. ISBN 978-5-298-01721-3
2. Рахимзянов Б.Р. Русские княжества и наследники Золотой Орды в XV в.: Начальная история Касимовского ханства // Rossica antiqua: Исследования и материалы. 2006. - СПб.: Изд-во СПбГУ, 2006. – С. 360-386
4. Rahimzjanov, Bulat R. Наследие Золотой Орды в формировании Российского государства // Cahiers du Monde russe. – № 46/1-2. – Janvier-juin. - 2005. – P. 29-38
5. Рахимзянов Б.Р. Административно-политическая и этносоциальная структура Мещерского юрта // История народов России в исследованиях и документах / Отв. ред. В.В.Трепавлов. - М.: Институт российской истории РАН, 2007. - Вып. 2. - С. 234-265
Current research project:
On the Path to Empire: Muslim Iurts of Muscovy of the XV – XVI cc.
Marlies Bilz-Leonhardt
e-mail:
marlies.bilz@t-online.de
Current position:
Independent scholar
PhD:
PhD
Research interests:
Russian and Eurasian History 19-20th cc.;
Non-Russian peoples; Jews and Turkic peoples in Russia and Central Asia
Selected publications:
Tatarstan in der Transformation: Nationaler Diskurs und Politische Praxis (1988-1994)
Dilyara Suleymanova
e-mail:
s_dily@hotmail.com
Current position:
Moderator of the Network of Empire and Nationalism Studies web-site (net.abimperio.net)
PhD candidate, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
PhD:
кандидат исторических наук, Казанский государственный университет (Candidate of Science in History, Kazan State University)
MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University (Budapest)
Research interests:
language politics, ethnicity and nationalism, minority rights, linguistic anthropology
Selected publications:
Language policy and revitalization of Tatar in the Republic of Tatarstan (MA thesis, CEU-2007)
Current research project:
Language and ethnicity in the post-Soviet Tatarstan
