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Name: Alexander Stephen Morrison Date & Place of Birth: 13th May 1978, The Hague, The Netherlands Nationality: British Marital Status: Single Address: School of History, University of Liverpool, 9 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ Telephone: +44 151 794 2392 email: A.S.Morrison@liverpool.ac.uk Academic Biography: University of Liverpool, September 2007 – onwards Lecturer in Imperial History All Souls College, Oxford 2000 - 2007 2005 admitted to the degree of D.Phil in History at the University of Oxford for a thesis entitled Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910. A Comparison with British India. Examiners: Internal – Dr John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford) External – Professor Dominic Lieven (LSE) Supervisors: Dr Catherine Andreyev (Christ Church, Oxford) Dr David Washbrook, Reader in Indian History (St Antony’s College, Oxford) 2001 M. St. Modern History (South Asia): Distinction Oriel College, Oxford 1997-2000 2000 Final Honour School of Modern History: 1st Class (highest in the year) Prizes and Distinctions: 2002 Curzon Memorial Prize, University of Oxford, for my master’s thesis: Unofficial Politics: The European Business and Planting Community in Ootacamund and the Nilgiri Hills c.1860 - 1900
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2000 Prize Fellowship (seven years) at All Souls College, Oxford Robert Herbert Memorial Prize, University of Oxford, for my undergraduate thesis: Creating a South Indian Hill Station. Ootacamund and the Nilgiri Hills 1818-1837 Gibbs Prize for the highest First in the Modern History Final Honours School Languages: French, Russian (Fluent), Hindi/Urdu, Persian/Tajik (Moderate), German (Poor) Publications: Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910. A Comparison with British India Oxford Historical Monographs. (Oxford University Press) 2008 'What is Colonisation? An alternative view of Taming the Wild Field’ Forum for Anthropology and Culture №.4 (2007) pp.402-415 and (in Russian translation) in Антропологический Форум Vol.6 2007 pp.421436 “Russian Rule in Turkestan and the Example of British India c.1860-1917” Slavonic & East European Review Vol. 84 №.4 October 2006 pp.666-707 “ ‘White Todas’. The politics of Race and Class amongst European Settlers on the Nilgiri Hills, c.1860–1900” The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 32 №.2 2004 pp.54-85 Conferences: ‘Between western universalism and eastern practices: the Russian Empire’ Echoes of Imperialism: Rethinking European Colonialisms Inter-disciplinary workshop organised by the Modern History Faculty, European Studies Centre & Maison Française d’Oxford, University of Oxford, May 9th-10th, 2008 Discussant on the Panel: ‘Encounter, Conquest, & Administration along the Imperial Frontier, 1800- 1914’ at the November 2007 AAASS Convention in New Orleans ‘The “Living Wall”: Native Administration in Turkestan 1865-1916’ Solidarities & Loyalties in Russian Society, History & Culture, Anglo-French Workshops in Russian Studies, SSEES-UCL, London, 18th 20th May 2007 ‘District Officials and Village Headmen in Russian Turkestan, 1868-1910’ Panel: Bureaucracy and Nationality in Imperial Russia. №. 2: Administration and Personnel on the Periphery. ICCEES Conference, Berlin, July 2005. ‘The Abolition of Amlakdari in the Zeravshan Valley after the Russian Conquest, 1867-1875.’ ACES Conference, University of Indiana, Bloomington, April 2004.
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Seminar Papers: Colonial and Postcolonial History Seminar, University of Durham 28th February 2008 Russian Orientalists in 19th– century Central Asia Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Seminar, St Antony’s College, Oxford. 22nd May 2006 Russian policies towards Islam in 19th-century Central Asia 16th May 2005 Russian views of Empire in Turkestan and the example of British India, c. 1860–1910 South Asian History Seminar, St Antony’s College, Oxford. 8th February 2005 Indian History from a Russian Perspective: Two Empires in Comparison. 8th May 2001 Comparing the Tsarist and the British Empires in Central and South Asia. (PRS presentation) Imperial History Seminar, Modern History Research Unit, Senate House, University of London. November 2004 Russian views of British India, c.1840–1914 Research Interests: The Russian Empire c.1815 – 1917 Central Asia c.1500 – Present British India 1757 – 1947 I am currently writing an article on the activities of Russian Orientalists in 19th century Central Asia. My next planned work is a comprehensive history of the “Great Game” written from a Russian and Central Asian perspective, aimed at a more popular audience. Research Experience: March – May 2007: Library & Archive of the Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg; Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty; Navoi State Library, Tashkent. November – January 2005-6: National Archives of India, Delhi. July 2005: Lenin Library, Moscow. August– October 2003: Uzbekistan State Historical Archive, Tashkent; Library of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe.
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June – July 2003: Central State Historical Archive, St Petersburg; Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg; State Military Historical Archive, Moscow; Historical Public Library, Moscow. September – October 2002: Uzbekistan State Historical Archive & Navoi State Library, Tashkent. July 2002: State Military Historical Archive, Moscow; Historical Public Library, Moscow. April – May 2002: Uzbekistan State Historical Archive, Tashkent. July –October 2001: State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow; Central State Historical Archive, St Petersburg; Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg; Navoi State Library, Tashkent. December 2000: Madras Record Office September 1999: Madras Record Office I regularly work in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library. I am one of the founding members of TOSCCA (The Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia) which was set up by the late Paul Bergne. See http://www.toscca.co.uk/ for details of our activities. Teaching & other experience: August-September 2008: Attended 80 hours of Tajik classes over four weeks at the Samarkand Summer School. September 2007 – Present: I have created and teach two papers in the School of History at the University of Liverpool, which are my sole responsibility. These are a 2nd –year paper entitled Indian Nationalism and the Partition of the Subcontinent, ca. 1880 – 1947 and a 3rd-year Special Subject entitled European Imperialism and the Islamic World ca.1780 – 1914 which looks at British, French and Russian Imperialism in India, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and Algeria. October 2001 –June 2007: I gave tutorials in the following papers for the Modern History Final Honours School at Oxford: General History XI Europe 1799 – 1856; Further Subject 17 Imperialism and Nationalism – South Asia 1880-1947; General History XVIII Europe and the Wider World 1815-1914; In Michaelmas 2006 I taught the documents classes and gave tutorials for Special Subject 19 The Russian Revolution of 1917 in the Final Honour School and for the language paper on Trotsky’s 1905 in the preliminary examination. I also occasionally taught a course of my own devising in 19th century Russian History to visiting students. September – October 2005: Attended a five-week Persian language course at Shahid Ashrafi University in Esfahan, Iran (twenty hours of individual tuition a week). January – June 2005: Supervised a Master’s Thesis on the Russophobe journalist David Urquhart for the Oxford Europaeum.
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January – March 2005: Co-convenor of the Central Asian History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford January – March 2004: Co-convenor of the Central Asian History Seminar, All Souls College, Oxford October – March 2003: Attended beginners’ Persian classes at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University (four hours a week for sixteen weeks in all). June 2003: Helped to organise a one-day Colloquium on Central Asian History at All Souls & presented a paper on Empire in Central Asia c.1750 – Present. October 2001 –June 2007: Urdu reading classes with Dr Imre Bangha, Oriental Institute, Oxford (one hour a week during term). September 2001: Stazhor in the Oriental Faculty of St Petersburg State University, under the supervision of Dr Sergei Evgenievich Grigoriev. October 2000 – December 2005: Hindi Classes with Dr Imre Bangha of the Oriental Institute, Oxford (two hours a week during term). January-April 1997: 4 Months spent teaching English literature at The Scindia School, Fort, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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