Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994
| Course schedule, Fall 2012: RUSN 101: Introductory Russian I RUSN 201: Intermediate Russian I RUSN 282: The Supernatural in Slavic Culture |
Course schedule, Spring 2011: RUSN 102: Introductory Russian II RUSN 202: Intermediate Russian II CSP ##: Genocide and Modernity |
Courses not offered in 2009-10
RUSN 278: Soviet Dissident Culture
RUSN 282: The Supernatural in Slavic Culture
Formerly Taught Courses
DWA 278: Oil and Politics in the
Caspian Basin
CSP 8: The Muslims of Russia
RUSN 272: Russian
Modernism
RUSN 276: Environmental Crises in Former
Soviet Space
20th Century Russian Art Presentations: Here are some of the presentations I have used in my classes on the Russian Avant Garde and other 20th Century art subjects.
An Insider's Tour of Russia: Pictures of the Occidental College Alumni "Passage of Peter the Great" trip of Summer 2005, complete with insider's stories, cultural trivia, and tendentious commentary.
Research Interests:
Ethnopolitics in the North Caucasus
Genocide Studies
Latest News
My next book, The Circassian Genocide, will be available in March.
For other news about my research, check out my blog at www.walterrichmond.net.
My book, The Northwest Caucasus: Past, Present, Future (Routledge Press, 2008) is available here. Here is an excerpt from Chapter Four concerning the deportation of the Circassians from their homeland in the 1860s.
Recent Publications: (I will be updating this section soon).
"Russian policies towards Islamic extremism in the Northern Caucasus and destabilization in Kabardino-Balkaria," Moshe Gammer, ed. Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder. Routledge, 2007, pp. 86-101.
"Legal Pluralism in the Northwest Caucasus: The Role of Sharia Courts," Religion, State, Society 1 (2004): 59-73.
“The Deportation of the
Karachays,” Journal of Genocide Research 4.3 (2002): 431-39.
“The Karachay Struggle After the Deportation,”
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 22.1 (2002): 63-79.
“The
Karachay Struggle After the Deportation,” As Alan 1.6 (2002): 85-109.
“Sovyetlarin
Türk
Halklarını Sürgün Etmesi,”
Türkler.
Ankara: Yeni Türkiye,
2002: Volume 18, 872-79.