Gardner Bovingdon

Phone:

(812) 856-0230

Email:

gbovingd@iu.edu

Education

• PhD, Cornell University, 2002

Research Interests

• politics in contemporary Xinjiang
• history of modern Xinjiang
• historiography in China
• nationalism and ethnic conflict

Courses Recently Taught

• CEUS U320/H520 on various topics including:
  • The History of Xinjiang to 1911
  • From Colony to Kingdom to Province: Politics in Modern Xinjiang
  • The Politics of Identity in China and Inner Asia
  • Grave-robbers, Missionaries, and Spies: Foreign Adventurers in Chinese Turkistan

Awards and Distinctions

• Clark Distinguished Teaching Award (Yale), 2000

Publication Highlights

• "CCP Policies and Popular Responses in Xinjiang, 1949 to Present," in China's Management of Its Minorities, edited by Morris Rossabi, (Seattle:  University of Washington Press), forthcoming
• "Contested Histories" (with Nabijan Tursun). In Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), 353-74.
• "Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent," Policy Studies 11 (Washington: East-West Center, 2004).  (64 pages)
• "Contested Histories," (with Nabijan Tursun) in Xinjiang:  China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr, (Armonk:  M.E.  Sharpe, 2004) 353-74.
• "The Not-So-Silent Majority:  Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang," Modern China 28, no. 1 (2002):  pp. 39-78.
• "The History of the History of Xinjiang," Twentieth Century China 26, no 1 (2001) pp. 95-139.