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Dr. Michael Hancock-Parmer

Coordinator of Global Engagement, Adjunct Lecturer

Location:
221 Lucas Hall
Phone:
(540)375-2456

Degrees

  • BA in English (Creative Writing), Music (Composition), Western Michigan University, 2003
  • MA in Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, 2011
  • Dual PhD in Russian History and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, 2017

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Role-Playing (Reacting to the Past) in the History Classroom
  • Nationalism in Central Asia
  • History of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union
  • History of the Mongol Empire
  • History of Islam

Books

  • "Central Asia Before the Advent of Russian Dominion" in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia (edited by Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat), Routledge, 2021.

Publications

  • “Flight and Famine: Interrogating Collectivization, Stalinism, and Genocide,” Kritika 20, no. 3. (2019)
  • “The Soviet Study of the Bare Footed Flight of the Kazakhs.” Central Asian Survey 34, no. 3: 281-295. (2015)
  • Book Review: Joo-Yup Lee. Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Eurasia. Boston: Brill, 2016. Central Asian Survey 35, no. 4.
  • Book Review: Alfrid Bustanov. Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations. London: Routledge, 2016. Central Asian Survey 35, no. 3.
  • Book Review: Jeff Eden, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese, eds. Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Islam in Russia, Central Asia and Western China (19th-20th Centuries). Special Volume of the Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2018. Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 52, no. 2.

Extracurricular

  • French Horn, Board Member, Composer/Arranger - Roanoke Valley Community Band
  • Docent, Basilica of Saint Andrew, Roanoke

Musical Work

  • Roanoke College Alma Mater Reharmonization [https://musescore.com/user/31858278/scores/13248295?share=copy_link]
  • Two-Part Invention for Keyboard [https://musescore.com/user/31858278/scores/13889242?share=copy_link]
  • Halloween Homage (Grade 4 Concert Band) [https://musescore.com/user/31858278/scores/8466749?share=copy_link]
  • E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come (Brass Quintet) [https://musescore.com/user/31858278/scores/9005690?share=copy_link]