# overview
Dr. Stephen Badalyan Riegg's research and teaching interests revolve around the histories of Modern Europe, Imperial Russia, and the Caucasus.

His award-winning book, Russia's Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and The Armenians, 1801-1914, traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers. Analyzing the complexities of this imperial encounter--beyond the reductive question of whether Russia was a friend or foe to Armenians--allows us to study the methods of tsarist imperialism in the context of diasporic distribution, inter-imperial conflict and alliance, nationalism, and religious and economic identity.

Dr. Riegg has conducted archival fieldwork in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Yerevan. His research has appeared in the journals The Russian Review, Ab Imperio, Nationalities Papers, and Cahiers du Monde russe.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)

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University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)

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History (with Honors); Russian and East European Studies (with Honors)

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Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus, by Farid Shafiyev

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present

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From the Kur to Aras: A Military History of Russia's Move into the South Caucasus and the First Russo-Iranian War

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Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire

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Russia's Entangled Embrace, The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914

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Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus, by Krista A. Goff

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Imperial Challengers: Tsarist Responses to Armenian Raids into Anatolia, 1875-90

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Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Words.

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Dreams of French silk at Russia's edge in the 1820s and 1830s

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The Tsar's Armenians: A Minority in Late Imperial Russia

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The Recalibration of Tsarist Policies toward Armenians inside and outside Russia, 18571880

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British Travelers and the Armenian Question During the First Half of the 19th Century

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Armenians in the Russian Political Imagination, 18141829

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NEOTRADITIONALIST RULE TO THE RESCUE OF THE EMPIRE? VICEROY I. VORONTSOV-DASHKOV AMID CRISES IN THE CAUCASUS, 1905-1915

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"They can live in the desert but nowhere else": a history of the Armenian Genocide

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Texas A&M University; History; 4236 TAMU

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Texas A&M Names 10 Arts And Humanities Fellows For 2020