{"id":642,"date":"2009-05-15T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/ccms\/?page_id=642"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:16","slug":"sahadeo-jeff","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/sahadeo-jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahadeo, Jeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests Related to European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian, East European, and Eurasian history; Empire and imperialism in Russia and Central Asia; diaspora and migration; contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus; nationalism and minorities; comparative colonialisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Current Research Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Rivers and Societies in Tsarist and Soviet Georgia<\/em> (funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director of <em>Migration Research Laboratory<\/em>, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i style=\"color: #000000;\">The Impact of History and Memory on Ethnic Relations in Kyrgyzstan <\/i>(in conjunction with the Global Centre for Pluralism)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Multinational Soviet City: Caucasus and Central Asian Migration to Leningrad and Moscow, 1945-1991<\/em> (funded by a SSHRC standard research grant)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Areas of Current Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EURR 5001 Interdisciplinary Seminar in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 5010 Research Design and Methodology in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 4305\/5305 and HIST 4607: Imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 4306\/5306 and HIST 4608: Culture and Power in the Soviet Union<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PSCI 4503:\u00a0 Politics of Central Eurasia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PSCI 4504: Politics of the Caucasus and the Caspian Basin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PSCI 3105: Imperialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURR 5202: Nazism and Stalinism (co-taught with <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/casteel-james\/\">Professor James Casteel<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected Publications Relating to European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BOOKS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><i>Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow\u00a0<\/i>(in press, Cornell University Press; publication Spring 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923<\/em>\u00a0 (Indiana University Press, 2007).<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Everyday Life in Central Asia, Past and Present<\/em> (co-editor, with Russell Zanca), (Indiana University Press, 2007).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SELECTED ARTICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cIntroduction: Forum: Oral History and Memory in Soviet Central Asia\u201d <em>Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History<\/em> 20, no, 2 (2019): 227-36.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBlack Snouts Go Home! Migration and Race in Late Soviet Leningrad and Moscow,\u201d <em>Journal of Modern History <\/em>88, no.4 (2016): 797-826.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWe\u2019re Exceptional Too!: Power, Peripheries and Imperial Connections. Julian Go\u2019s Patterns of Empire Viewed from the Russian Borderlands\u201d <em>Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East<\/em> 34, no. 3 (2014): 630-6.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSoviet Blacks and Place Making in Leningrad and Moscow\u201d <em>Slavic Review<\/em>, 71, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 331-358.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Accidental Traders:\u00a0 Marginalization and Opportunity from the Southern Republics to Late Soviet Moscow\u201d <em>Central Asian Survey<\/em> 30, nos. 3-4 (2011): 521-540 (republished in <em>Movement, Power and Place in Central Asia: Contested Trajectories<\/em> (London: Routledge, 2012).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cVisions of Empire:\u00a0 Russia\u2019s Place in an Imperial World\u201d <em>Kritika:\u00a0 Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History<\/em> 11, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 381-409.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cEpidemic and Empire:\u00a0 Ethnicity, Class, and \u2018Civilization\u2019 in the 1892 Tashkent Cholera Riot\u201d\u00a0 <em>Slavic Review<\/em> 64, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 117-139.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cEmpire of Memories:\u00a0 Conquest and Civilization in Imperial Russian Tashkent\u201d <em>Canadian Slavonic Papers<\/em> XLVI no. 1-2 (March-June 2004): 395-417.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SELECTED CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cSpringtime for Central Asia? Belts and Roads, Partnerships and Risks Amid Global Realignment\u201d In <em>The New World Disorder: Challenges and Threats in an Uncertain World<\/em> ed. J.L. Black, Michael Johns and Alanda D. Theriault (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHistory, Memory and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Southern Kyrgyzstan and the Ferghana Valley\u201d In\u00a0<i>Interrogating Liberal Peace in Eurasia: Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict<\/i>. Ed. Catherine Owen, Shairbek Juraev and Nicholas Megoran (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), 25-54.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cRussia and Central Asia: Does the Tail Wag the Dog?\u201d In <em>Russia after 2012: From Putin to Medvedev to Putin.\u00a0 Continuity, Change, or Revolution<\/em>, ed. J. Larry Black and Michael Johns (Routledge, 2013), 167-183.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cRegional Histories, Critical Thought, and the University of Central Asia:\u00a0 Between Global and Local, North and South\u201d <em>Globalization on the Margins: Education and Postsocialist Reform in Central Asia<\/em> ed. Iveta Silova (Information Age Publishing, 2011), 95-116.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWithout the Past There is No Future:\u00a0 Archives, Authority, and History in Uzbekistan\u201d in <em>Archive\u00a0<\/em><em>Stories:\u00a0 Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History<\/em> ed. Antoinette Burton (Duke University Press, 2005), 44-67.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">RECENT SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Making Caucasians Black: Racism and Street Trade on the Streets of Soviet Moscow\u201d McGill University, University of Toronto and Queens University, January 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cFrom Southern Farms to Northern Tables, Soviet Style\u201d Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, November 2019, San Francisco, CA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhite Water to White Coal: the Mtkvari River in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Tbilisi\u201d Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, May 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cCrumbling from the Outside In: Perestroika-Era Migration to the Soviet Core\u201d University of Basel, Switzerland, 12 September 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Kura River: Power, Image and Culture in the South Caucasus\u201d Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, November 2017, Chicago IL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSoviet Moscow as a Global City: Migration and Postcolonialism\u201d South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, April 2017.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaker, Workshop for the Commission on the Development of Historical Science under the Apparatus of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, December 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PUBLIC SERVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Committee Member, Reginald Zelnik Prize for Best Book in History, Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 2018-9<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBC Morning on Expulsion of Russian Diplomats, 26 March 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>South Ural State Television, Migration in the Soviet Union and Russia, April 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CTV appearances on Euro-Atlantic Relations 17 February and 24 April 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ABC News on John Kerry trip to Central Asia, 2 November 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CFRA radio on Syria and Russia, 15 October and 24 November 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media Appearances on Crisis in Ukraine, 2013-4:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The National, 22 April 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CTV Powerplay 22 April 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Globe and Mail article on Moldova and Ukraine, 20 March 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EURUS Blog on Crisis on Ukraine, Entries March-April 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hays Advantage, Bloomberg News, 15 March 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CFRA Radio, 24 and 27 February, 4 and 25 March, 2 September 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Agenda, TVO, 24 February 2014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CTV Newsnet, 5 August and 1 September 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13907,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jeff","cu_people_last_name":"Sahadeo","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[15],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-642","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor \u2013 Russian and Eurasian History, Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus","cu_people_degree":"BA (Simon Fraser) MA (ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´) PhD (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jeff.sahadeo@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2996","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13909,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/642\/revisions\/13909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}