
Education
Ph.D. Central Eurasian Studies, History Minor, Indiana University, 2021
Dissertation: “Socialism, Livestock, and Disaster: Environmental and Animal History of Mongolian Collectivization”
Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, 2015
Thesis: “Representations and Memories of the Collectivization Campaigns in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1929-1960.”
B.A. History, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2010
Research and Teaching Interests
environmental history; animal history; mobile pastoralism; history of agriculture; climate history; socialism; Mongolia; Siberia; Central Eurasia; North Asia.
Teaching and Professional Experiences
Indiana University, Bloomington:
Associate Instructor (Primary Instructor): “Modern Mongolia,” Spring 2021
Associate Instructor (Primary Instructor): “Introduction to Central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet,” Fall 2020
Associate Instructor: “Global Health and Environment,” Spring 2020 with Jessica O'Reilly
Associate Instructor: “Introduction to International Studies,” Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2019
Graduate Assistant: The Pan-Asia Institute, 2018-2019
Associate Instructor: “Empire of the Mongols” with Christopher Atwood, Spring 2016
Associate Instructor: “Oil, Islam, and Geopolitics,” with Gardner Bovingdon, Fall 2015
Graduate Assistant; Web and Multimedia: Inner Asia and Uralic National Resource Center, 2013-2015
Associate Instructor: “Empire of the Mongols” with Christopher Atwood, Spring 2013
Associate Instructor: “Oil, Islam, and Geopolitics” with Gardner Bovingdon, Fall 2012
Research Assistant: Christopher Atwood, 2010-2011
Scholarly Works
Publications
2018 “Solitude,” translation of S. Erdene’s short story “Gantsaardal,” for Words without Borders, October 2018 issue. https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/october-2018-dalit-writing-solitude-erdene-seng-kenneth-linden
Manuscripts in Preparation
“The Khiimori of the Wolf Under Socialism: Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia.”
In Preparation for submission to Environmental History
Book Reviews
Review of Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History, edited by Nicholas Breyfogle for H-Net Environment, in press
Review of Fear and Fortune: Spirit Worlds and Emerging Economies in the Mongolian Gold Rush by Mette High for Mongolian Studies, in press
Review of Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism by Adrian Parr for H-Net Socialism, in press
Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
2018 Indiana University College Arts & Humanities Institute Graduate Conference Travel Award
2016-2017 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow, Mongolia
2016 Indiana University College Arts & Humanities Institute Graduate Conference Travel Award
2015-2016 Denis Sinor Essay Prize, “The Khiimori of the Wolf Under Socialism: Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia”
2015 Indiana University OVPIA Pre-Dissertation Research Grant Recipient
2015 American Center for Mongolian Studies Field Research Fellow
2014 Summer American Center for Mongolian Studies Language Fellow
2014 Summer Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship recipient, Mongolian
2011-2012 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship recipient, Mongolian
Summer 2011 Title VIII Fellowship recipient, Mongolian
Conference Activity/Participation
Panels Organized
2018 Organized “Central Eurasian Environmental and Animal Histories” panel at 19th Central Studies Society Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA October 24-28th
Papers Presented
2019 “Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1954-1964” presented at 25th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, Bloomington, IN, February 23,
2018 “Ravenous Beasts, Pitiful Sinners, and Class Enemies: A History of the Wolf in Mongolia,” presented at 19th Central Studies Society Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA October 24-28th
2017 “Livestock, Predators, and the Environment in Socialist Mongolia,” presented at 23rd Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, Indiana University, March 4th
2016 “The Khiimori of the Wolf Under Socialism: Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia,” presented at Humanity & Other Forms of Life: Environmental Histories of the World,” Workshop at Washington D.C., November 5th.
2016 “Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia,” presented at 22nd Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference March 12,
2015 “Collectivization in the Buriat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1929-1932,” presented at 21st Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 7th.
2014 “Representations and Memories of the Collectivization Campaigns in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1929-1960, presented at 20th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 8th.
2012 “Historiography of Mongol Imperial Cities,” presented at 18th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 3rd.
Languages
- English (Native)
- Mongolian (speaking, reading, writing: advanced)
- Classical Mongolian (reading: intermediate)
- Russian (reading: advanced, speaking: beginning)
- German (reading: intermediate)
- French (reading: intermediate)