These pages are in support of my teaching, research and writing activities. Links from my mainpage are largely self-explanatory. My Uyghur History and Culture site is the most comprehensive. I am working on cleaning out some dead wood and improving the looks of my pages, many of which were first created in 1996. Most of my written pieces are linked to my CV, so for now this site guide consists of the simply of the online items from that.
My Dissertation: Slippery Paths in the Night: Cultural Politics and the Making of Turkic Literature and Uyghur Muqam Song . Table of Contents and Chapters
"Tabloid Archaeology: Is Television Trivializing Science?," originally in Discovering Archaeology March-April 1999, pp. 98-101, quoted at About.com's Archaeology Site
Qazaqs in the People's Republic of China: The Local Processes of History. Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, MacArthur Scholar Series, Occasional Paper No. 22
"Pizza in 30 Minutes, or How to Order a War: A Study of the Political Institution of Time."
" Kazakhs of the Tarbaghatai: Ethno-History through the Novel."
"A Fly Crushed Between Stallions: Uyghur History On The Margins Of Empire." Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston
Hidden Discourses of Race: Imagining Europeans in China Paper given at Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston
"Editing Tradition: Cognitive Schemas for Constructing Ethnic Culture." American Anthropological Association, San Francisco
"The Poetics of the Theoretical Imagination." On the panel "Connoisseurs of Chaos: Theory as Genre" which I also organized. American Folklore Society, Pittsburg
"Constructing a National Literature: The History of Uyghur Literary History." Resources for Central Asian Studies: A Workshop on Contemporary Methodologies, Columbus, Ohio
"Identity Formation and Public Culture: Public Representations of Ethnic Identity in Northwest China." Citizenship: Nationality, Transnationality and Education, Toledo, Ohio
"Identity, Performance, and Meta-Culture in Uyghur Music and Dance." American Folklore Society, Lafayette, Louisiana
"An Inner Asian Literary Tradition in its Context: Oral and Written Turkic Poetry as Sources for Social History." American Folklore Society, Milwaukee
revised 3/8/2001.