Brian Glyn Williams, PhD

Professor of Islamic History
Department of History

Department Profile, The Last Warlord

Education

University of Wisconsin, Madison WI.

• PhD, May 1999. Middle Eastern and Islamic Central Asian History.

Indiana University, Bloomington IN.

• Masters Degree, 1992. Russian and East European History.
• Masters Degree, 1990. Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Ottoman Language and Turkic History.

Stetson University, Deland FL.

• Bachelor of Arts, 1988. Department of History (Russian Studies and Art Minors).

Fields of Teaching and research

• Conflict in Contemporary Islamic Eurasia (Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Macedonia).
• Nationalism and Identity in the Caucasus/Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan).
• Ottoman History (with emphasis on nationalism in the Balkans).
• Transnational Jihadi Militant Movements and Al Qaeda Terrorism.

Professional Experience

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

• History Dept. Professor of Islamic Civilization. Fall 2001-Present.

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

• History Dept. Lecturer in Middle Eastern-Balkan History. 1999-2001.

University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Lecturer of Islamic Central Asian and Medieval Middle Eastern History. 1996-1998.