Marina Tolmacheva is Professor Emerita of History at Washington State University, specializing in the Middle East and Islamic Civilization. She came to the United States from Russia after training as an Arabist and historian with the leading specialists in St.Petersburg (then Leningrad). Although Tolmacheva’s first job in the United States was teaching Russian at Harvard, she soon moved to the Pacific Northwest. She recently returned to Seattle after many years of teaching history at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. Tolmacheva is the author and co-author of three books, over 80 refereed articles and chapters, and over 90 book reviews and abstracts. Her research interests include Arabic sources on Africa, history of Arabic geography and travel, and Islamic historiography of Africa and Central Asia. Tolmacheva is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of prestigious fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, and American Philosophical Society, among others. She has also developed an interest in international higher education, traveling to post-Soviet republics and mentoring the new generation of university faculty from Mongolia to Ukraine. In 2006-2009 she served as President of the American University of Kuwait.

History

13th-18th Centuries

Africa (Sub-Saharan)

Central Asia

Indian Ocean Region

Arabic Geog & Travel

Arabic Sources Arab-Swahili Chronicles

Cen Asia Historiography