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ABOUT
Sergey Salushchev is a historian of the Caucasus region. His scholarship conceptualizes the Caucasus as a permanent borderland, a site of cultural exchanges, transnational commercial networks, contested memory, and imperial rivalries. Sergey’s dissertation investigates the history of slavery, the slave trade, and abolition in the nineteenth century Caucasus under Russian imperial rule.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Middle East/Near East Studies
Slavery
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Caucasus
Specialties
Slavery Studies
The Caucasus
Russian & The Middle East
Languages
Russian (native)
Spanish (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Georgian (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| History
| UC Santa Barbara
MA
| 2014
| Global Studies
| UC Santa Barbara
BA
| 2012
| International Relations
| UC Davis
Abstracts
Take Me to Karbala: Body, Piety, and the Imperial Thanatopolitics in the Shiʿa Community in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus
