Curriculum Vitae (May 2005)
Name
Uli Schamiloglu
Dept. of Languages and Cultures of Asia
1254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706 USA
tel. 608-262-7141 (office), tel. 608-262-3012/262-0524 (department), fax 608-265-3538
E-mail: uschamil@wisc.edu
Departmental website: lca.wisc.edu
Formal college education
B.A., Middle East Languages and Cultures, Columbia College, 1979
Magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Taraknath Das Prize in Oriental Studies
M.A., History, Columbia University, 1980
M.Phil., History, Columbia University, 1982
Ph.D., History, Columbia University, 1986
Positions held
February 1983-March 1983, Visiting Research Scholar, Inner Asian and Uralic National
Resource Center, Indiana University-Bloomington
August 1983-May 1986, Visiting Lecturer in Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University-
Bloomington
August 1986-May 1989, Assistant Professor of Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University-
Bloomington
August 1989-May 1993, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
August 1993-October 1998, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
November 1998-May 2000, Associate Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
August 2000- , Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
August 2002- , chair, Central Asian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 2005-, associate director, Middle East Studies Center, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Honors and awards since Ph.D. or other terminal degree
Grant-in-Aid, Office of Research and Graduate Development, Indiana University-
Bloomington (1987)
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Research and Graduate Development, Indiana
University-Bloomington (1988)
Hamburg Exchange, Office of International Programs, Indiana University (1988)
Matching post-doctoral conference travel grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, Inc. (1988)
Mellon Summer Faculty Fellowship, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana
University-Bloomington (1988, declined)
Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., American Council of Learned
Societies (1989-90)
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African or Asian History, American
Historical Association (1989)
Research grant, UW Graduate School Research Committee (1989-90, supplement to ACLS
Fellowship)
Research grant, UW Graduate School Research Committee (1991-92, PA support)
Research grant, National Council for Soviet and East European Research (1992)
Research grant, UW Graduate School Research Committee (1992-93, PA support)
Research grant, UW Graduate School Research Committee (Summer 1993, summer salary)
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities (1994-95)
Research grant, UW Graduate School Research Committee (1994-95, supplement to NEH
Fellowship)
Sabbatical leave, UW-Madison (Fall 1999)
Voted “Best Professor” in a poll conducted by the Badger Herald, UW-Madison (Spring
2004).
Positions held that require scholarly competence
Co-editor, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 6-8 (1986 [1988] —1992-1994)
Assistant Editor, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 2-5 (1982-1985 [1987])
Assistant Editor, Archivum Ottomanicum 7-8 (1982-1983)
Editorial Board, Indiana University Turkish Studies Series, vol. 4-7
Editorial Board, Panorama-Forum (Kazan, Tatarstan/Russia), no. 1- (1995- )
Editorial Board, Journal of Central Asian Studies, vol. 1- (1996- )
Editor, Turko-Tatar Press (1996- )
Editorial Board, Yeni Yakla.ymlar (Ankara, 2001- )
Editorial Board, Türkler , i-xxi (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayynlary, 2002).
Editorial Board, The Turks, i-vi (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayynlary, 2002).
Editorial Board, Journal of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Bibliography
Books
1. The Golden Horde: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Western Eurasia, Thirteenth-
Fourteenth Centuries (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in press: January 2006).
(in progress )
2. Islam in Russia (a reference work for secondary school students, to be completed May
2005).
3. Turkic and Tatar Thought in the Liberal Age
4. The Old Turkic Runic Inscriptions: Texts, Translation, Grammar
5. Introduction to Turkic Historical and Comparative Linguistics
6. The Turkic Languages: Grammatical Sketches and Chrestomathy
Edited Volumes
1. Istoçnikovedenie istorii Ulusa Djuçi (Zolotoy Ordï). Ot Kalki do Astraxani, 1223-1556, ed. M.A.
Usmanov, I. Va.ari, X. Gëken’yan, D.M. Isxakov, V.M. Ostapçuk, R.S. Xakimov, Yu.
.amil’oglu, A.A. Arslanova (Kazan: Institut Istorii im. .. Mardjani—Kazanskiy
Gosudarstvennïy Universitet, 2002).
(in progress )
2. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Golden Horde and Its Successor States
(Istanbul, 22-24 April 2005), ed. Timur Kocao.lu and Uli Schamiloglu (forthcoming).
Books by the Turko-Tatar Press (Editor: Uli Schamiloglu)
(published)
1. Suzan H. Akkan, Dictionary of Turkish Acronyms and Abbreviations. A Selected List, 1928-1998
(Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, 1999).
2. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpynar, trans. Ender Gürol, The Time Regulation Institute (Madison: Turko-
Tatar Press, 2001).
(in progress )
3. Nikolai N. Karazin, trans. Anthony Sariti, In the Distant Confines (in press).
4. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpynar, trans. Ender Gürol, Peace at Heart (in press).
5. Anthony Qualin, Eurasian Cultural Space in the Works of Timur Pulatov and Chingiz Aitmatov (in
press).
6. Yakup Kadri Karaosmano.lu, trans. Joseph Jacobson, The Outsider (forthcoming).
7. Ossetian Nart Sagas, trans. Walter May, ed. Tamerlane Salbiev and John Colarusso (forthcoming).
8. Alessio Bombaci, trans. Kathleen R.F. Griffin-Burrill, ed. Uli Schamiloglu, The Literature of the
Turks (in preparation).
9. Ibn Fad¥lãn, trans. James E. McKeithen, The Risãlah of Ibn Fad¥lãn (in preparation).
10. Khayrulla Ismatoullaev, Uzbek-English Dictionary (forthcoming).
Articles
1. “The Name of the Pechenegs in Ibn H¥ayyân’s Al-muqtabas”, Turks, Hungarians and
Kipchaks. A Festschrift in Honor of Tibor Halasi-Kun, ed. P. Oberling, Journal of
Turkish Studies 8 (1984), pp. 215-222.
2. “The Qaraçy Beys of the Later Golden Horde: Notes on the Organization of the Mongol
World Empire”, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 4 (1984), pp. 283-297.
3. “The Tatar Public Center and Current Tatar Concerns”, Report on the USSR 1:51
(December 22, 1989), pp. 11-15.
4. “The Formation of a Tatar Historical Consciousness: .ihabäddin Märcani and the Image
of the Golden Horde”, Central Asian Survey 9:2 (1990), pp. 39-49.
5. “Tatar halk merkezi (TOTs)”, Yeni Dü.ünce (Ankara), March 23, 1990.
6. “The End of Volga Bulgarian”, Varia Eurasiatica. Festschrift für Professor András Róna-
Tas (Szeged, 1991), pp. 157-163.
7. “Formirovanie istoriçeskogo soznaniya tatar: .igabuddin Mardjani i obraz Zolotoy
Ordï”, Tatarstan 1991:10, pp. 21-29.
8. “The Umdet ül-ahbar and the Turkic Sources of the Golden Horde and the Later Golden
Horde”, Central Asian Monuments, ed. H.B. Paksoy (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1992), pp. 81-
93.
9. “Whither Tatarstan?”, Perspectives on Change 1:3 (June 5, 1992), pp. 14-21. Published by
the Center for Post-Soviet Studies.
10. “Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Disease in the History of the Golden Horde”,
Central Asian Survey 12:4 (1993), pp. 447-457.
11. trans. A. Arslanova and I. Izmaylov, “‘Karaçi bei’ pozdney Zolotoy Ordï: Zametki po
organizatsii mongol’skoy mirovoy istorii”, Iz istorii Zolotoy Ordï (Kazan, 1993), pp. 44-
60.
12. “Bolgar tele kaya kitkän?”, Idel 1994:4, pp. 46-48.
13. “Beautés du mélange”, trans. V. Fourniau, Samarcande, 1400-1500. La cité-oasis de
Tamerlan: coeur d’un Empire et d’une Renaissance, ed. V. Fourniau (Paris: Autrement,
1995), Chapter 12, pp. 191-203.
14. “Turk Dillerinde Yardimci Fiiller Sorunu”, Uluslararasy Türk Dili Kongresi 1988
(Ankara: Turk Dil Kurumu, 1996), pp. 153-168.
15. “Yctihad or Millet?: Reflections on Bukhara, Kazan, and the Legacy of Russian
Orientalism”, Reform Movements and Revolutions in Turkistan: 1900-1924. Studies in
Honour of Osman Khoja / Türkistan’da Yenilik Hareketleri ve Yhtilaller: 1900-1924.
Osman Hoca Anysyna Yncelemeler, ed. Timur Kocao.lu (Haarlem: SOTA, 2001), pp.
347-368.
16. “We Are Not Tatars! The Invention of a Bul.ar Identity”, Néptörténet – Nyelvtörténet. A
70 éves Róna-Tas András köszöntése, ed. László Károly and Éva Nagy Kincses (Szeged,
2001), pp. 137-153.
17. “Altyn Ordu”, trans. Bülent Kene., Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayynlary, 2002), viii,
pp. 412-428.
18. “The Golden Horde”, The Turks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayynlary, 2002), ii, pp. 819-834.
19. “ABD’de Avrasya Çaly.malarynyn Durumu”/“The State of Eurasian Studies in the USA”,
proceedings of the Uluslararasy Türkoloji ve Türk Tarihi Sempozyumu (Ankara: Yeni
Türkiye Yayynlary): http://www.yeniturkiye.com/symposium.asp?id=14
20. “Napravleniya v issledovanii Zolotoy Ordï”, Istoçnikovedenie istorii Ulusa Djuçi (Zolotoy
Ordï). Ot Kalki do Astraxani, 1223-1556, ed. M.A. Usmanov et al. (Kazan: Institut Istorii im.
.. Mardjani—Kazanskiy Gosudarstvennïy Universitet, 2002), pp. 15-29.
21. “The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde”, The Golden Cycle. Proceedings of the John
D. Soper Commemorative Conference on the Cultural Heritage of Central Asia. UCLA
Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead, October 1-4, 1998, ed. András J.E. Bodrogligeti
(Central Asia Information Project – Sahibqiran, 2002), pp. 200-215.
22. “The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: The Black Death in Medieval Anatolia and its Impact on
Turkish Civilization”, Views From the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet, ed.
Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter, and Jean-Marc Oppenheim (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2004), pp. 255-279.
23. “The New World and its Impact on Turkic Lexicon and Culture”, Tyurkskaya i smejnaya
leksikologiya i leksikografiya. Sbornik k 70 letiyu K. Musaeva. [in press/published?]
24. “Turkic Calques in Slavic: The Legacy of the Golden Horde”, Altayskie yazïki i vostoçnaya
filologiya. Sbornik k 80-letiyu Å.R. Teni.eva. [in press]
25. “Tatars: Past, Present, and Future”, proceedings of the conference “Tatarlar ve
Tataristan” [Tatars and Tatarstan] (submitted).
26. “Mï ne tatarï! Izobretenie bulgarskoy identiçnosti”, Mirkasim Usmanov Festschrift
(submitted).
(in progress )
27. “Between the Khazars and the Golden Horde: A Re-examination of the Economy of
Medieval Western Eurasia in the 11th-12th centuries” (forthcoming).
28. “The Concept of Nation and the (Re)conceptualization of Identities in Central Asia (19th-
21st Centuries)” (forthcoming).
29. “Ulus Kavramy ve Orta Asya Türk Cumhuriyetlerinde Kimli.in (Yeniden) Tasarlanmasy (19.-
21. yüzyyllar)” (forthcoming).
30. “The Potato, the Russian, and the Kazak: The Origins of the Russian Colonization of the
Kazak Steppe (An Essay in Comparative History)” (forthcoming).
31. “(Re)Claiming the Tatar Literary Past: Philology, Chronology, and Ideology in the
Construction of Tatar Literary History. The Case of Qul cAli’s Qissa-i Yusuf”
(forthcoming).
32. “Coins Tell Their Own Story: Numismatic Evidence and the History of the Golden
Horde and the Later Golden Horde”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference
on the Golden Horde and Its Successor States (Istanbul, 22-24 April 2005), ed. Timur
Kocao.lu and Uli Schamiloglu (forthcoming).
33. “Islamskaya tsivilizatsiya v Zolotoy Orde”, Proceedings of the Conference on Islam in the
Volga Region (forthcoming).
34. “Folklore and Forgery: The Case of .an Kyzy Dästany”, Fikret Türkmen Festschrift
(forthcoming).
35. “Turkic Literatures of the Soviet Union in the 20th Century”, Alessio Bombaci, trans.
Kathleen R.F. Griffin-Burrill, The Literatures of the Turks (forthcoming).
36. “Introduction”, Ibn Fad¥lãn, trans. James E. McKeithen, The Risãlah of Ibn Fad¥lãn
(forthcoming).
(submitted—not likely to be published?)
1. “Altyn Orda Hanly.y ve Halef Devletlerinde Türk Kabile Te.kilâty” [Turkic Tribal
Organization in the Golden Horde and its Successor States], proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Turcology (submitted 1988).
2. “Turks and Chinese in History: A Brief Historical Overview”, The Porcelain Collection of
the Topkapy Palace (submitted 2001).
Opinion
1. “Tatarskiy mejdunarodnïy universitet”, trans. Damir Isxakov, Zvezda Povolj’ya (August
30, 2001).
2. “ABD ve Rusya: Son ‘çykar evlili.i’ mi?”, Zaman (Turkey), Tuesday, December 04, 2001,
p. 10; also at: http://212.154.21.40/2001/12/04/strateji/strateji.htm
3. “National History and Professional History”, trans. Damir Isxakov (submitted).