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Professor of Islamic History
Department of History
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Room 313, Group I
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
Office: (508) 999-8302
Cell: (857) 523-0894
bwilliams@umassd.edu
Fields
of Teaching and Research
- Conflict
in Contemporary Islamic Eurasia (Chechnya, Afghanistan,
Kosovo, Macedonia).
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Nationalism and Identity in the Caucasus/Central Asia
(Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan).
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Ottoman History (with emphasis on nationalism in the
Balkans).
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Transnational jihadi Militant Movements and Al Qaeda
terrorism.
Professional
Experience
University
of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. |
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History Dept. Full Professor of Islamic
Civilization. Fall 2001-present
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University
of London, School
of Oriental and African Studies. |
- History
Dept. Lecturer in Middle Eastern-Balkan History.
1999-2001.
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University
of Wisconsin, Madison. |
- Lecturer
of Islamic Central Asian and Medieval Middle
Eastern History. 1996- 1998.
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Education
University of Wisconsin. Madison. WI.
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PhD, May 1999. Middle Eastern and Islamic Central
Asian History.
Indiana
University. Bloomington. IN.
- Masters
Degree. Spring 1992. Russian and East European History
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Masters Degree. Spring 1990. Department of Central
Eurasian Studies. Ottoman Language and Turkic
History.
Stetson
University. Deland FL.
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Bachelor of Arts. Spring 1988. Department of History.
(Russian Studies and Art Minors).
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DeLand High School. FL.
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Friar's Middle School. Bangor, Wales (United Kingdom).
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