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About Nicholas Seay

Nicholas Seay is a PhD student at Ohio State University

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicholas:

Central Asian Studies May 4, 2021

Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes

Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia

Rustamjon Urinboyev

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia (University of California Press, 2020), Dr. Rustam Urinboyev presents rich ethnographic material to reconceptualize how migrants adapt to …
Central Asian Studies April 14, 2021

In Remembrance of the Saints - the Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty

David Brophy

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
David Brophy's translation of Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari's In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty (Columbia University Press, 2021) represents the first comprehensive translation of …
Central Asian Studies March 2, 2021

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914

Alexander Morrison

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Alexander Morrison’s study of the conquest of Central Asia offers new perspectives on a topic long obscured by misleading grand narratives. Based on years of research in several countries, The Russian …
Central Asian Studies January 21, 2021

Polymaths of Islam

Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia

James Pickett

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
James Pickett's new book, Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020) analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a …
Central Asian Studies November 5, 2020

The Politics of Police Reform

Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries

Erica Marat

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In her book, The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press, 2018), Erica Marat provides an answer to a very important question: “What …
Central Asian Studies September 14, 2020

Afghanistan

A History from 1260 to the Present

Jonathan Lee

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Jonathan Lee’s comprehensive study of Afghanistan’s political history in Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present (Reaktion Books) tells the story of the emergence and sometimes surprising longevity of …
Central Asian Studies July 30, 2020

The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan

Iraj Bashiri

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan (Academic Studies Press, 2020) Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of …
Central Asian Studies July 15, 2020

The Bukharan Crisis

A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia

Scott Levi

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In his new book, The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh, 2020), Scott Levi brings new perspectives into the historiography of early Modern Central …
Central Asian Studies June 23, 2020

Imperial Desert Dreams

Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991

Julia Obertreis

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991 (V & R Unipress, 2017), Julia Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of …
Central Asian Studies April 27, 2020

Tatar Empire

Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia

Danielle Ross

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In her new book Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia (Indiana University Press, 2020), Danielle Ross looks at how the Tatars of Kazan participated in the …
Central Asian Studies March 25, 2020

Russia and Central Asia

Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence

Shoshana Keller

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Shoshana Keller’s new book, Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence (University of Toronto Press, 2019) provides an excellent introduction and overview of the history of Central Asia, from roughly …
Central Asian Studies February 27, 2020

The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century

Paving a New Silk Road

Richard Pomfret

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Richard Pomfret’s The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2019) looks at the economies of the five former Soviet Republics of Kazkahstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and …
Literary Studies February 6, 2020

Bygone Days

Abdullah Qodiriy (trans. Mark Reese)

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Mark Reese’s recent translation of Abdullah Qodiriy’s 1920s novel O’tkan Kunlar (Bygone Days) brings an exemplary piece of modern Uzbek literature to English-speaking audiences. The story, which simultaneously follows the …
Central Asian Studies January 9, 2020

The Nazarbayev Generation

Youth in Kazakhstan

Marlene Laruelle

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan (Lexington Books, 2019), edited by Marlene Laruelle, looks at the younger generations of Kazakhstan that have come of age during the post-Soviet presidency of …
Literary Studies January 3, 2020

Night and Day

A Novel

Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon (Chistopher Fort, trans.)

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Christopher Fort’s new translation of Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon’s Night and Day: A Novel (Academic Studies Press, 2019) (Kecha va Kunduz) gives readers a chance to dive into the world …
Central Asian Studies December 6, 2019

Kazakhstan in World War II

Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire

Roberto Carmack

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Roberto Carmack’s Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire (University Press of Kansas, 2019) looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet …
Film September 9, 2019

Film and Identity in Kazakhstan

Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia

Rico Isaacs

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested …
Central Asian Studies August 8, 2019

The Eastern Frontier

Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

Robert Haug

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Robert Haug’s new book, The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia (I. B. Tauris, 2019) is an in-depth look at the frontier zone …
Central Asian Studies July 9, 2019

History of the Tajiks

Iranians of the East

Richard Foltz

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East (I.B. Tauris, 2019), Richard Foltz provides a comprehensive cultural, political, and linguistic history of the Tajik people. Throughout the book, he …
Central Asian Studies June 26, 2019

Despite Cultures

Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan

Botakoz Kassymbekova

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
Botakoz Kassymbekova’s Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) is a terrific study of early Soviet rule in Tajikistan based on extensive archival research. Her …