Gardner Bovingdon :: Faculty
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Office: Goodbody Hall 331
Phone: (812) 856-0230
E-mail: gbovingd@indiana.edu
Education
PhD, Cornell University, 2002
Current Doctoral Students
Research Interests
- politics in contemporary Xinjiang
- history of modern Xinjiang
- historiography in China
- nationalism and ethnic conflict
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.
