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Jeff Eden

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2016
Curriculum Vitae

Interests

Geographic Field(s):  Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe; Asian History

Thematic Field(s):  Religious History; Colonial, Imperial, & Diasporic History; Urban History; War and Empire in History

Principal Research Interest(s):  Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus

Biography

Jeff Eden (Ph.D., Harvard, 2016) is a historian of Russia and Central Asia. His books include God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War (Oxford, 2021), Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (Cambridge, 2018), and Warrior Saints of the Silk Road (Brill, 2018). Before coming to Northwestern, he was Pandion haliaetus (Seahawk Honorary) Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and before that he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. He is currently working on two book projects, one about the Pugachev Rebellion in Russia (1773-1775) and the other about the Caucasus during the Second World War. At Northwestern, he teaches classes on Russian, Central Asian, and global history. Links to some of Eden's articles (etc.) can be found on this website.

Selected Publications

Books 

Edited Volumes 

Selected Articles

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