Thank you, Stefan Kirmse!

 We're very pleased to have had Stefan Kirmse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) as our guestblogger for October 2020. He took us behind the curtain to share the inner workings of his research for The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia (CUP, 2019). Here are his posts: 

• Exploring Law in the Russian Empire: Spatial and Temporal Choices
• Language Matters. Studying Legal History in the Russian Empire
• An Archive's Tale. Law and Empire in Tsarist Russia
• The Skariatin Code. Legal History Research on Imperial Russia
• Into the future. Gender, sexuality, and minority matters in Russian imperial history

Thank you, Dr. habil. Kirmse!

--Mitra Sharafi

Welcome, Stefan Kirmse!

We are happy to introduce our guest blogger for October 2020: Stefan Kirmse (Leibniz-

Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin). Dr. habil. Kirmse is a senior research fellow and research coordinator at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and a senior lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is a historian of law in imperial Russia, focusing on Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus region, and Central Asia. He holds a BA from the University of Dublin, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and a Habilitation from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

His most recent book, The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2019. His first monograph was Youth and Globalization in Central Asia: Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors (Campus, 2013). In addition to publishing many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, Stefan Kirmse is also the editor of the volume, One Law for All? Western Models and Local Practices in (post-) Imperial Contexts (Campus, 2012).

You can read more about his publications and background here.

Welcome, Stefan Kirmse!

--Mitra Sharafi

Welcome, Nurfadzilah Yahaya!

We are very happy to welcome our guest blogger for the month of September: 

Nurfadzilah (Fadzilah) Yahaya, National University of Singapore.

Professor Yahaya is a legal historian of the Indian Ocean. She is Assistant Professor of History at NUS. Prof. Yahaya received her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis until June 2015, and a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at NUS until June 2016.

Prof. Yahaya's book, Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2020), explores how members of the Arab diaspora utilized Islamic law in British and Dutch colonial courts of Southeast Asia. Her next project explores colonial regulation of Islamic religious slaughter during the twentieth century. 

Prof. Yahaya has published journal articles in Law and History Review, Indonesia and the Malay World, and The Muslim World. You can explore her research website here and follow her on Twitter at @nfyahaya 

Welcome, Professor Yahaya!

--Mitra Sharafi