Tuna, Mustafa

Mustafa Tuna received his PhD from the History Department of Princeton University in 2009 and is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University's Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department, with a secondary appointment in History. His research focuses on social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia, specially the Volga-Urals region and modern Turkey, since the early nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in identifying the often intertwined roles of Islam, social networks, state or elite interventions, i...