Academic Career

Since 2007 Lecturer in East European History at NUIM
2000-2007 Assistant professor, Bielefeld University, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Department of Eastern European History.
1999-2000 Part time lectureship Cologne University, Seminar for East European History
1999 Doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) from Cologne University. Ph.D. thesis on ‘Muslim nationalism in the Russian Empire: Tatar and Bashkir nation-building and national movement, 1861-1917’
1996-1999 Graduate Student at Cologne University, research grant from the Friedrich – Ebert – Foundation
1995-1996 Research assignment at Kazan State University (Russia), Faculty for Tatar Philology, History and Oriental languages, funded by the German Academic Exchange Program
1993 Magister Artium degree in East European History, Theatre sciences and Slavonic studies from Cologne University 

 

Research Interests

Cross-disciplinary research profile in Imperial Russian / Soviet history; with focus on

(1) cultural, social and visual history of the late Soviet period,

(2) nationality problems in the Russian Empire and the history of Islam in Russian and Central Asia,

(3) the history of East Central Europe (Poland and Ukraine)
 

Current Research project on mass tourism in the late Soviet Union (1960s-1980s)
 

Publications

"Mezhdu berezami i pal'mami: Imidzhi sovetskogo turizma v zhurnale 'Turist' (1966-1980gg.)", [Between Birch Trees and Palms: Images of Soviet Tourism in the Journal 'Turist', 1966-1980s] in: Hans Günther, Jurij Murašov (eds.) Gibridnost' v Russkoi i Sovetskoi kul'ture (in print).

"The Conquest of the Volga-Ural Region (1552-1600)" und "Muscovite and Russian Expansion and Rule to 1762", in: Cambridge History of Inner Asia Vol. 2: The Chinggisid Age: From the Mongols to the Russian and Chinese Empires, 1200-1865 (Cambridge: University Press, in print).

“From Ancestry to Territory. Spatial Dimensions of Muslim Identity in Late Imperial Russia", Ab imperio (2006) 2, 81-100.

"Coping with the Tourist. Planned and 'Wild' Mass Tourism on the Soviet Black Sea Coast ", in: Anna Gorsuch, Diane Koenker (eds.) Turizm. The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006) 281-304.

"Muslim Revolutionary Conspiracies as Retrospectively Seen by Local State Officials", in: Jonathan Smele, Anthony Heywood (eds.) The Russian Revolution of 1905. A Centenary Perspective (London: Routledge, 2005) 119-136.

"Tourismus in Russland und der UdSSR als Gegenstand historischer Forschung. Ein Werkstattbericht", [Historical Research on Tourism in Russia and the Soviet Union. A Report on Work in Progress] Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 45 (2005) 477-498.

(with Marsel Farkhshatov) "Research Trends in Studies on the History of Islam and Muslim Peoples (Bashkirs, Volga and Sibirian Tatars), Conducted in European Russia and Sibiria ca. 1985-2000", In: Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Hisao Komatsu (eds.) Research Trends in Modern Central Eurasian Studies (18th - 20th Centuries). A Selective and Critical Bibliography of Works Published between 1985 and 2000, Part 1. (Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko, 2003) 1-47.

"State Policy and its Impact on the Formation of a Muslim Identity in the Volga Urals", in: Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Hisao Komatsu (eds.) Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia (Early Eighteenth to Late Twentieth Centuries (London: Kegan Paul, 2001) 3-26.

Muslimischer Nationalismus im Russischen Reich. Nationsbildung und Nationalbewegung bei Tataren und Baschkiren, 1860-1917 [Muslim Nationalism in the Russian Empire. Tatar and Bashkir Nation Building and National movement, 1860-1917] (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000) (Ph.D. Dissertation).

"Islam und Nationalismus an der Mittleren Wolga", [Islam and Nationalism on the Middle Volga] Osteuropa 48 (1998) 485-499.

"Eine Moschee für den Kreml in Kazan' oder: 'Invention of Tradition' auf tatarisch", [A Mosque for the Kazan Kremlin, or: Tatar 'Invention of Tradition'] Osteuropa Archiv (1998) 5, A189-A199.

"Les musulmans de la région volga-oural au XIXe siècle: L'arrière-plan social, économique et culturel du mouvement d'emancipation", [The Muslims of the Volga-Urals during the 19th Century: On the Social, Economic and Cultural Backgrounds of the Reform Movement] in: Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Dämir Is'haqov, Räfyq Möhämmätshin (eds.) L' Islam de Russie. Conscience communautaire et autonomie politique chez les Tatars de la Volga et de l'Oural depuis le XVIII siècle (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1997) 89-114.
 

Papers Delivered

‘Serious Fun!’ Travel and Tourism in Soviet Discourse’, Department of History Research Seminar series, NUIM, 4.10.2007
‘Family Holiday in the Late Soviet Period’ (in German), Workshop “Social und Cultural Practices in Tourism” at the ZZF, Potsdam (Germany), 23.-25.1.2007
‘Between Birch Trees and Palms – Images of the Soviet Tourist in the Brezhnev Period’ (in German), 46. Deutscher Historikertag,Constance (Germany), 19.-22.9.2006
‘Of Other Places: Soviet Spas as Heterotopias. The Case of Sochi’ (in German), Workshop “Mastering Space – Space and its Appropriation in Russian History,
Kolloquium des Historischen Kollegs, Muinich (Germany) 13.-15.6. 2006
‘A Farewell to the New Man? The Male Tourist in Late Soviet Media’, VII ICCEES World Conference, Berlin (Germany), 25.-30.7.2005
 

Teaching

HY 112 ‘Practising History’,

HY 268 ‘The Short Soviet Century’,

HY 368 ‘Nation without state: Poland 1795-1918’,

HY 310 'Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'

ES 210 ‘The History of Europe: Ancient, Medieval, Modern’

Contact Details

Rhetoric 43,
South Campus,
NUI Maynooth

Tel: 01 708 3375,

Contact Dr. Christian Noack