The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Douglas Northrop as its acting director while director Geneviève Zubrzycki is on sabbatical in academic year 2025-26. Northrop is professor of history and Middle Eastern studies. He specializes in the modern history of Central Asia, and also focuses on world history, environmental history, and the cultural aspects of modern colonialism. He has served as the Associate Director of WCEE since 2023 and is currently on the WCEE Steering Committee.
He is the author of Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia, which won both the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize and Heldt Prize. His current projects include Four Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire on Russia’s Eurasian Frontier and the Oxford Handbook to Central Asian History. He received his PhD from Stanford University, MA in Modern European History from Cambridge University, and BA in Russian, political science, mathematics from Williams College.
Welcome, Doug!
