Adeeb Khalid

Adeeb Khalid is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College, where he has been a faculty member since 1993. His scholarship bridges Central Asian history, Soviet studies, and postcolonial theory, with a focus on cultural transformations under imperial and revolutionary contexts.

• PhD and MA from University of Wisconsin-Madison
• President of Central Eurasian Studies Society (2005-06)
• Executive Board, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2013-15)

Key research areas include:

• Modern Central Asian history (1860s-present)
• Islam under Russian/Soviet rule
• Nation-building and colonialism
• Comparative imperial formations
• Language and identity politics
• Anticolonial movements in Eurasia

His publications have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean. Recent articles examine:

• Post-Soviet Islamic historiography
• Colonial Turkestan's exclusion/inclusion dynamics
• Decolonizing Central Asian national identities
• Methodological debates in area studies

Scientific recognitions:

• Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize (2008)
• Reginald Zelnik Book Prize (2016)
• Honorable Mention, Joseph Rothschild Prize

Active in international academic collaborations, Khalid has held visiting positions at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and the Library of Congress's Kluge Center. He teaches courses on Russian Empire, Soviet Revolution, and Middle Eastern cultural history.