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Ph.D. in History, University of California, Davis, (1994)

M.A. in Russian Studies, University of Michigan, (1989)

B.A. in History, Russian Language and Literature, St. Olaf College, (1984)

Expertise

Research Interests

Russian empire, Sino-Soviet relations, Socialist bloc exchange

Articles

Jersild, A. (2018). Sino-Soviet Relations, Decolonization, and the Global Cold War. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 19 (1) , pp. 217--224.

Jersild, A. (2015). Author’s Response. H-Diplo Roundtable Review of The Sino-Soviet Alliance 16 (27) , pp. 22-24.

Jersild, A. (2015). The Dilemmas of Cultural Collaboration in Sino-Soviet Relations: The Failure of Suzhong youhao, 1958-1960. Modern China Studies 22 (1) , pp. 169-190.

Jersild, A. (2012). The great betrayal: Russian memories of the ‘great friendship,’. Cold War History 12 (1) , pp. 159-169.

Jersild, A. (2011). The Soviet State as Imperial Scavenger: ‘Catch Up and Surpass’ in the Transnational Socialist Bloc, 1950-1960. American Historical Review 116 (1) , pp. 109-132.

Jersild, A. (2004). The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective: New Work on Contemporary Russian-Chechen Relations. Slavic Review 63 (2) , pp. 366-376.

Jersild, A. (2002). Guest Editor’s Introduction. Russian Studies in History 41 (2) , pp. 4-9.

Jersild, A. (2000). ‘Russia,’ from the Vistula to the Terek to the Amur. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 1 (3) , pp. 531-546.

Jersild, A. (2000). Faith, Custom and Ritual in the Borderlands: Orthodoxy, Islam and the ‘Small Peoples’ of the Middle Volga and the North Caucasus. The Russian Review 59 (4) , pp. 512-529.

Jersild, A. (2000). Imperial Russification: Dagestani Mountaineers in Russian Exile, 1877-1883. Central Asian Survey 19 (1) , pp. 5-16.

Jersild, A. (1999). Rethinking Russia from Zardob: Hasan Melikov Zardabi and the ‘Native’ Intelligentsia. Nationalities Papers 27 (3) , pp. 503-517.

Jersild, A. (1996). Ethnic Modernity and the Russian Empire: Russian Ethnographers and Caucasian Mountaineers. Nationalities Papers 24 (4) , pp. 641-648.

Jersild, A. (1995). Who was Shamil? Russian Colonial Rule and Sufi Islam in the North Caucasus, 1859-1917. Central Asian Survey 14 (2) , pp. 205-223.

Books

Jersild, A. and co-edited with Babiracki, P. (2016). Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World. Palgrave Macmillan.

Jersild, A. (2014). The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History. University of North Carolina Press.

Jersild, A. (2002). Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917. McGill-Queen's University Press.

Book Chapters

Jersild, A. and Babiracki, P. (2016). Editors’ Introduction Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World (pp. 1-16) London: Palgrave.

Jersild, A. (2016). Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry, 1956-1965: The Second World in the Third World Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War: Exploring the Second World (pp. 303-325) London: Palgrave.

Jersild, A. and Melkadze, N. (2006). The Dilemmas of Enlightenment in the Eastern Borderlands: The Theater and Library in Tbilisi Orientalism and Empire in Russia (pp. 295-316) Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.

Jersild, A. (1997). From Savagery to Citizenship: Caucasian Muslims and Mountaineers in the Russian Empire Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 (pp. 101-114) Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Presentations

Jersild, A. (May 5, 2022). Learning from Guinea—Conakry Oral Presentation Verflechtung und Globalisierung Group University of Leipzig, Leipzig.

Jersild, A. (April 16, 2022). The USSR and the External World Oral Presentation Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences Moscow, Russia.

Jersild, A. (April 8, 2022). Industrial Policy and Sino-Soviet Relations from Transnational Perspectives Oral Presentation The Business History Conference Mexico City, Mexico.

Jersild, A. (November 20, 2021). Empire, Identity, and Borders Oral Presentation Association for East European and Eurasian Studies National Convention New Orleans, LA.

Jersild, A. (November 20, 2021). Russia vis-à-vis Asia: Entangled Self-Reflections with the Eastern ‘Other’ Oral Presentation Association for East European and Eurasian Studies National Convention New Orleans, LA.

Jersild, A. (July 1, 2021). The ‘Socialist World System’ from Beijing to Conakry: Sino-Soviet Exchange as a Model for Failure in the Global South, 1950-1964 Oral Presentation Authors’ Workshop, Economic Dimensions of the Sino-Soviet Split and Alliance University of Leipzig, Leipzig.

Jersild, A. (December 8, 2018). Writing International Cultural Histories after World War II: Sources and Methods Oral Presentation Association for East European and Eurasian Studies National Convention Boston, MA.

• 2022: Guest Research Scholar, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of East Europe
• 2022: National Research Award, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• 2022: Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty Research Leave: Prague, Sofia, Krakow, Leipzig, Â鶹´«Ã½
• 2022: Collaborator, Cold War Studies Group
• 2016: Research Fellow, Berlin Center for Cold War Studies / Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg
• 2012: Â鶹´«Ã½ Summer Research Fellowship Program: Beijing, OId Dominion University
• 2011: Â鶹´«Ã½ Faculty Research Leave: Norfolk, Berlin , Â鶹´«Ã½
• 2008: Fulbright Research Scholar, Russia and Czech Republic, Fulbright Foundation
• 2007: National Research Award, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• 2006: Kennan Institute, Short-Term Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
• 2004: American Councils for International Education, Combined Research and Language (Chinese), Moscow,
• 2000: American Councils for International Education, Combined Research and Language (Georgian), Tbilisi, Georgia,
• 1999: American Councils for International Education (fee-for-support), Tbilisi, Georgia,
• 1997: Kennan Institute, Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
• 1995: Research Scholar, Hoover Institute of Stanford University