Kenneth Linden

Email:

kenlinde@iu.edu

Resume/CV

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 19^th Central Studies Society Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA October 24-28^th 

Papers Presented

2019 “Veterinarians, Vaccines, and Hybrids in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1954-1964” presented at 25^th 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 19^th Central Studies Society Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA October 24-28^th

2017 “Livestock, Predators, and the Environment in Socialist Mongolia,” presented at 23^rd Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, Indiana University, March 4^th 

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 5^th.

2016 “Wolves, Pastoralism, and Modernity in Mongolia,” presented at 22^nd Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference March 12,                   

2015 “Collectivization in the Buriat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 1929-1932,” presented at 21^st Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 7^th.

2014 “Representations and Memories of the Collectivization Campaigns in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1929-1960, presented at 20^th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 8^th.     

2012 “Historiography of Mongol Imperial Cities,” presented at 18^th Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference, March 3^rd. 

Languages

• English (Native)
• Mongolian (speaking, reading, writing: advanced)
• Classical Mongolian (reading: intermediate)
• Russian (reading: advanced, speaking: beginning)
• German (reading: intermediate)
• French (reading: intermediate)