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Yasyn Abdullaev

Visiting Doctoral Researcher

Yasyn Abdullaev is a visiting doctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg. His three-month stay, as part of the Berkeley-Regensburg doctoral exchange Programme coordinated by DIMAS, is supported by a grant from the University of Regensburg Hans Vielberth Foundation. He is based at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (GSOSES-UR), where he is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer.


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Academic Positions

Okt-Dez?2024

Visiting Doctoral Researcher?at University of Regensburg

2023

REEEC Summer Research Laboratory Associate ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2019-21 Research Assistant
Department of History, St. Petersburg State University

Academic Education

2021-2027 Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
2021 M.A., History, St. Petersburg State University
2019 B.A., History, St. Petersburg State University

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

2024 ?IES Berkeley-Austria Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2024 ?The John L. Simpson ABD Graduate Students Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies, UC Berkeley
2024 ?ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant
2024 ?IES Berkeley-Regensburg Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2023 ?The John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies, UC Berkeley
2023 ?ISEEES Summer Language Training Fellowship (French), UC Berkeley
2021 ?The Berkeley Ph.D. Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2020 ?Vladimir Potanin Fund Scholarship
2020 ?Boris B. Piotrovsky Scholarship, St. Petersburg State University
2019 ?Vladimir V. Mavrodin Scholarship, St. Petersburg State University

Conferences and Workshop Presentations

“Polish Carbonari and the Austro-Russian Political Policing in the Age of Metternich,” the Annual Convention of Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies, Andrássy University. Budapest, Hungary, June 2024.


“Secret Police and the Culture of Denunciations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century St. Petersburg,” the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 55th Annual Convention. Philadelphia, USA, December 2023.


“Destructive Doctrines: Conspiracy Mythology and the Russian State Security in the Age of Revolution,” the Berkeley Russian History Workshop “Kruzhok,” UC Berkeley. Berkeley, USA, May 2023

The Desert Russian and Eurasian History Workshop, Sonoma State University. Rohnert Park, USA, April 2024.


“Conspiracy Myths and Political Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia,” the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 54th Annual Convention. Chicago, USA, November 2022.


“Conspiracism in Alexandrine Russia: the Myth of Global Conspiracy and the Russian Governing Elites in the 1820s,” “Individuals, Generations, and Social Groups 1721–1925”: the Fourth Finnish-Russian Conference on Elite Studies, Aalto University. Helsinki, Finland, June 2022.


“Conspiracism in Alexandrine Russia: the Myth of Global Conspiracy and Political Rhetoric in the 1820s,” the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Northwest Conference, University of Washington. Seattle, USA, April 2022.


“Relations between Russian and French Banking Capital in 1914–1917: On the Materials of the Bryansk Company and the Russo-Asiatic Bank,” the All-Russian Scientific Conference “History Challenges and Economic Development of Russia”, the Institute of History and Archaeology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. Yekaterinburg, Russia, September 2019.


“The Kerch Case” of the Joint-Stock Company of Bryansk Factory,” the All-Russian Scientific Conference “Revolution of 1917: Socio-Economic Reasons and Consequences”, Moscow School of Economics, Moscow State University. Moscow, Russia, November 2017.
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Publications

Academic Articles and Reviews

  • Abdullaev, Yasyn. “Zagovor “Parizhskogo Komiteta”: Konspirologiia i imperskie elity v Rossii v poslednie gody tsarstvovaniia Aleksandra I” (The “Paris Committee” Plot: Conspiracy Theories and Imperial Elites in Russia in the Later Years of Alexander I’s Reign), Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Istoriia 2023 (1): 134–145. (in Russian)
  • Abdullaev, Yasyn. Review of Radnitz, Scott, Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region, Ab Imperio 2022 (2): 329–333. (in Russian)
  • Belousov, Mikhail, Abdullaev, Yasyn. “Pervye Ispanskie revolutsii i praviashie krugi Rossiiskoii imperii,” (First Spanish Revolutions and the Governing Elites of the Russian Empire) Rossiiskaia istoriia 2021 (1): 46–57. (in Russian)
  • Belousov, Mikhail, Abdullaev, Yasyn. “Mito de la conspiracion paneuropea: desde el Trienio Liberal hasta el levantamiento decembrista,” (The Myth about the Pan-European Conspiracy: From Liberal Triennium to the Decembrist Revolt) Historia Constitutional 2021 (22): 837–855. (in Spanish)

Public Writing

  • Abdullaev, Yasyn.?From the Paris Committee to “Polish Carbonarism”: Conspiracy Mythology and the Political Imagination in Russia in the Age of Revolution.?The Jordan Center’s Blog, New York University. Link to the text.

Teaching

Spring 2024

Reader

“The Atlantic World,” University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

Fall 2023

Graduate Student Instructor

“Science and Society: The Origins of Modern Science,” University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

Spring 2023

Graduate Student Instructor

“The Birth of Modern Thought: European Intellectual History, 1500–1800,” University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

Fall 2022

Graduate Student Instructor

“European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present,” University of California, Berkeley, Department of History

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