SERGEY SALUSHCHEV

Department of History – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

EDUCATION

______________

JUNE 2022 - Ph.D. Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Reluctant Abolitionists: Slavery and Abolition in the Caucasus, 1801-1914

Examination Fields:   Russia/Soviet Union, Modern Europe, Modern Middle East, Borderlands

Dissertation Committee: Professors Adrienne Edgar (Chair), Sherene Seikaly, Bruce Grant, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Erika Rappaport

JUNE 2014 - M.A. Department of Global & International Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Masters Thesis: When Global Encounters National: The Plight of Iranian Refugees & Asylum Seekers in Turkey Post the Green Movement

JUNE 2012  - B.A. International Relations & Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC Davis

PUBLICATIONS

_________________

“With the Tsar’s Imprimatur: The Sale Deed of a Circassian Slave, 1864,” in Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History, ed. Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin (Oxford University Press, 2023). ISBN: 9780197605769

“Of Leeches and Men: The South Caucasus in the Global Trade in Medicinal Leeches in the Nineteenth Century.” The Jordan Center Blog, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. January 2022.

“38 Years a Slave: The Narrative of Joseph & Transnational Slavery in the Caucasus,” Peripheral Histories?, March 2021.

Kali Yamboliev (co-author) “Unfortunately, Some Mistake Were Made”: Joseph Stalin and Public History in Post-Independence Georgia,” The Public Historian 42, no. 3 (2020): 33-60.

BOOK REVIEWS

__________________

Review of Circassia and Europe: Diplomatic Dispatches about Circassia from the Consulate of France in Odessa, 1836-1840”. Kafkasya Çalışmaları, vol. 10, no. 16, 2025, pp. 249-52.

Review of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky. Kafkasya Çalışmaları, vol. 9, no. 15, 2024, pp. 223-8.

Review of Bellows, Amanda Brickell, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-emancipation Imagination. H-Russia, H-Net Reviews. July, 2021. 

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

___________________________

Russian (native speaker)

Farsi (intermediate)

Georgian (beginning)

Arabic (beginning)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

___________________________________

American Research Institute of the South Caucasus
Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies

Association for Iranian Studies

International Council for Central and East European Studies

Middle East Studies Association
Santa Barbara Historical Museum
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation

Society of California Archivists