I am a historian of slavery in Imperial Russia and the Caucasus. In addition, I am keenly interested in the relationship between the state and subaltern groups as well as questions of religion, religious conversion, and the performance of religious identity.

My expertise lies in the history of the Caucasus in the nineteenth century. My scholarship conceptualizes the Caucasus as a permanent borderland, a site of cultural exchanges, transnational commercial networks, contested memories, and imperial rivalries. My book manuscript, Reluctant Abolitionists, investigates the history of slavery, the slave trade, and abolition in the Caucasus under Russian imperial rule. When completed, it will provide the first comprehensive account of how slavery was abolished in the Caucasus and be in conversation with a global history of abolitionism.

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