Gardner Bovington

Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
PhD, Cornell University, 2002

gbovingd@indiana.edu
Goodbody 331
(812) 336-0230

Research Interests:

• Comparative and Chinese politics
• theories of nationalism
• statebuilding
• political economy
• ethnic politics
• Marxism and critical theory
• qualitative research methodologies

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

• Clark Distinguished Teaching Award (Yale), 2000

• "CCP Policies and Popular Responses in Xinjiang, 1949 to the present," Governing China's Multietthnic Frontiers, ed. Morris Rossabi (Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming).
• "The Not-so-silent Majority: Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang," Modern China 28.1 (January 2002), 39-78.
• "The History of the History of Xinjiang," Twentieth Century China 26.2 (April 2001), 95-139.