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Professor and Chair, History Department
Office: Herter 618
Telephone: (413) 545-2378
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: altstadt@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983).
Field(s) of interest: Soviet History; Soviet nationalities,
especially Azerbaijan, Central Asia.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Central Asia: Political Issues in Historical
Perspective (Not Online)
Propaganda (Not Online)
Research Interests and Professional Activities
She is author of a monograph on Azerbaijan under Russian imperial
and soviet rule, The Azerbaijani Turks (Stanford: Hoover
Institution Press, 1992). Her published articles have appeared in
the U.S., Canada, England, France, Turkey and Azerbaijan. She has
been a consultant for the U.S. State and Justice Departments, and
recipient of grants from the International Research and Exchanges
Board, The George F. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies,
and the Ministry of Education of Japan. In June 2000, she was awarded
an honorary doctorate from Khazar University in Baku.
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