Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan

Academic Positions

10/2022-	Appointment as Professor?for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge at the University of?Regensburg
04/2022-09/2022	Guest Professorship?(Vertretungsprofessur) for?Global History at the Free University of Berlin
10/2016-03/2022	Head of Volkswagen "Freigeist" Junior Research Group???The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations? at Center for Global History, Free University of Berlin
09/2015-06/2016	Harvard Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University
10/2014-08/2015	Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow?at Zentralasien-Seminar, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin
09/2013-06/2014	Harvard Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University

Academic Training

07/2013	Awarded D.Phil. in History,?Faculty of History,?University of Oxford
10/2011-07/2013	Doctoral Student at the?Faculty of History,?University of Oxford
09/2011?	Awarded?M.Phil. in Economic and Social History,?Faculty of History,?University of Oxford
10/2009-06/2011	M.Phil. Student in Economic and Social History at the?Faculty of History, University of Oxford
10/2008-09/2009	Fulbright Scholar and Student of?History and Slavic Studies at?Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen and Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
09/2004-06/2008?	Bachelor's Student in?German Studies and European Cultural Studies at Princeton University

Research Interests

History of the Soviet Union in a global context; socialist internationalism; Soviet development aid in the Global South; Communist movements in the Global South
History of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran
Entanglements between the post-socialist world and the Islamic world
Imperial entanglements in 19th and 20th century Eurasia: Russian Empire/USSR, Ottoman Empire, Iran, China, Japan
History of the Cold War in a global context
History of the spread and reception of revolutionary ideologies: Communism, Islamism, Maoism
World order politics and the history of international order; alternative international orders (Communism, Pan-Islamism, the Non-Aligned Movement, the New International Economic Order)
History of international development
International political economy; global monetary policy

Monographs

Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

In Preparation

Edited Translations

Selected Articles

“Doomed to Good Relations: The Soviet Union, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Fate of Anti-Imperialism in the 1980s,”?The Journal of Cold War Studies?(Winter 2022)
“Asymmetries of Internationalism: Performing and Remembering Subnational Internationalism in the Age of Developed Socialism,”?The Russian Review?80:4 (September 2021).
“‘Neither East Nor West,’ Neither Liberal Nor Illiberal? Iranian Islamist Internationalism in the 1980s,”?Journal of World History?31:1 (2020).
“Persian Visions of Nationalism and Inter-Nationalism in a World at War,” in?Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great War, Hrsg. v. Marcus Payk und Roberta Pergher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
“Graveyard of Development? Development in Cold War Afghanistan,” in?The Development Century, Hrsg. v. Erez Manela und Stephen Macekura. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“An Union Reframed: Postwar Soviet Documentary Photography and Central Asia,”?Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History?17:3 (Sommer 2016).
“Getting Re-Acquainted with the 'Muslims of the USSR': Staging Soviet Islam in Iran and Turkey, 1980-1982,”?Ab Imperio?(4/2011).
“Under a Red Veil: Staging Afghan Emancipation in Moscow,”?The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review?38:1 (2011).
“Soviet Nationalities Policy,?USSR in Construction, and Soviet Documentary Photography in Comparative Context, 1931-1937,”?Ab I

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