{"id":12595,"date":"2021-09-28T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12595"},"modified":"2025-01-30T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:07:04","slug":"%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%b9%d0%bc%d1%81-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b5%d1%82","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/profil\/%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%b9%d0%bc%d1%81-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b5%d1%82\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0414\u0436\u0435\u0439\u043c\u0441 \u041f\u0438\u043a\u0435\u0442"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>James Pickett focuses on empire and Islam as entangled sources of authority, with particular attention to historical memory and state formation. His first book, <em>Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia<\/em>, was published by Cornell University Press in 2020. A second book project will compare Bukhara\u2019s transformation into a Russian protectorate with the Indian princely state of Hyderabad\u2019s parallel trajectory into semi-colonial status. James has also published articles about the Soviet legacy of the Persian cultural sphere and modern language politics in relation to pedagogy. Most recently, he completed a synthetic Cambridge History chapter on Persianate migration, building on a contribution to the Asia Inside Out collected volume. In pursuing these endeavors, James has spent over half a decade living and working throughout Eurasia: scouring Arabic biographical dictionaries in Damascus; pawing through Russian colonial records in Saint Petersburg; surveying religious endowments in Uzbekistan; deciphering Persian manuscripts in Tajikistan; and delving into Urdu sources in archives throughout India. James holds a PhD in history from Princeton University, an MA from Georgetown University, and a BA from Carleton College. He is an Associate Professor in the History Department of the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia<\/em> (Cornell University Press, 2020).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia,\u201d in <em>Asia Inside Out: Itinerant People<\/em>, ed. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019), 201\u201323.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWritten into Submission: Reassessing Sovereignty through a Forgotten Eurasian Dynasty,\u201d <em>The American Historical Review<\/em> 123, no. 3 (2018): 817\u201345.<\/li>\n<li>&#8222;Categorically Misleading, Dialectically Misconceived: Language Textbooks and Pedagogic Participation in Central Asian Nation-Building Projects,\u201d <em>Central Asian Survey<\/em> 36, no. 4 (2017): 555\u201374.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Pickett focuses on empire and Islam as entangled sources of authority, with particular attention to historical memory and state formation. His first book, Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"country":[97],"pl-categs":[65],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12595\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=12595"},{"taxonomy":"pl-categs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pl-categs?post=12595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}