Topics vary according to interests of students and instructor.
This graduate seminar will compare experiences of and historiography on multi-nationalism in the Russian and Ottoman Empires in the late imperial period. Readings will consider how religious and ethnic minorities were treated differently within and across the Russian and Ottoman Empires, and the extent to which this affected the shape of ethnic, religious, and political cultures in these two contexts. Particular attention will be paid to methodological challenges that scholars of the Russian and Ottoman Empires, and other multi-national polities, share. There are no prerequisites to this course. Readings will all be in translation.