Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at

Indiana University - Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and, with over 40,000 students, its largest campu ...

. Choksy completed his undergraduate degree from

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in 1985 and doctoral work at Harvard University in 1991. From there, he embarked on a career in academia, beginning as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1991-1993) and subsequently a tenure track professor at Indiana University in 1993, eventually holding appointments in a variety of different programs in that university. He has been a NEH Fellow and Member at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1993-1994) and a Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto (2001-2002). Choksy is considered one of the foremost authorities on

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, and

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, combining historical understanding to discuss modern issues and topics. An important piece of this research and his pieces in the foreign affairs and popular press, such as ''Foreign Affairs'', ''Foreign Policy'', ''Real Clear World'', the

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and other venues, is pulling from his historical understanding of history, culture, and religion to illustrate how different cultures and people in the

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and

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interact. In 2008, he was nominated by President

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to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

Awards

* Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences * Fellow, American Numismatic Society * National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship * Guggenheim Fellowship * Member, National Council of the Humanities * Mellow Fellowship * American Philosophical Society Fellowship * Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of London

References

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