Austin Jersild is Associate Professor of History and International Studies, with degrees from St. Olaf College (1984), University of Michigan (1989), and University of California, Davis (1994). His current work on Sino-Soviet relations and the Cold War has been supported by a Research Scholarship from the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center (2006), and a National Research Fellowship from the National Council on Eurasian and East European Research (2007-2009).
He is the author of Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002), articles on the expansion and formation of the Russian Empire, and the Guest Editor of a recent issue of Russian Studies in History dedicated to the history of Russia in the North Caucasus.
