Gardner Bovingdon

Phone:

(812) 856-0230

Email:

gbovingd@iu.edu

Department:

Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002

Regions of Interest

• China

Research Topics

• Politics in contemporary Xinjiang
• History of modern Xinjiang
• Historiography in China
• Nationalism and ethnic conflict

Representative Publications

• The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. Columbia University Press (2010).
• “Politics in Modern Xinjiang,” in Introduction to the Politics of China, ed. William Joseph. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 336-354.
• “CCP Policies and Popular Responses in Xinjiang, 1949 to the present,” in Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, ed. Morris Rossabi (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), 117-54.
• "Contested Histories" (with Nabijan Tursun). In Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), 353-74.
• "Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent," Policy Studies 11 (Washington: East-West Center, 2004). (64 pages)
• "Contested Histories," (with Nabijan Tursun) in Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, edited by S. Frederick Starr, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004) 353-74.
• "The Not-So-Silent Majority: Uyghur Resistance to Han Rule in Xinjiang," Modern China 28, no. 1 (2002): pp. 39-78.
• "The History of the History of Xinjiang," Twentieth Century China 26, no 1 (2001) pp. 95-139.