Curtis Croppe
Curtis Murphy
Position:
Associate Professor
Office Phone:
(69) 4709
E-mail:
curtis.murphy@nu.edu.kz
Website:
https://nu-kz.academia.edu/CurtisMurphy
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Research Interest

Imperialism in Comparative Context, Anti-Colonial Movements, East Central Europe, Urban History, History of Travel and Ethnography

Biography
Selected Publications
Courses Offered

Curtis Murphy received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University with a focus on East Central Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and he has worked at Nazarbayev University since
2017. His research interests include interfaith and multinational cooperation, urban and rural social history, identity, and nationalism.His first book, From Citizens to Subjects: City, State, and the Enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus (https://www.upress.pitt.edu/books/9780822964629/) appeared in 2018 with the University of Pittsburgh press. This book examined the experience of urban residents in cities of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the eighteenth century through 1864. Rather than viewing urban citizens as backwards and shortsighted in the face of progress, From Citizens to Subjects argues that conflict between citizens and the state at the turn of the nineteenth century resulted from a clash of two rival, incompatible and mutually-incomprehensible political visions, one of which—that of the enlightened center—ultimately triumphed and has informed subsequent interpretations of the period ever since.

Prof. Murphy has continued to publish articles on urban history and Christian-Jewish interaction in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including a recent case study of a blood-libel investigation in eighteenth-century Belarus. At the same time, Prof. Murphy has broadened his original research interests to include a focus on multinational cohabitation and colonization in Kazakhstan and Eurasia. He recently published an article on Polish ethnographers in the Kazakh steppe and the Caucasus, and he has another piece forthcoming on the complex political identity of the Polish-Ukrainian, Muslim adventurer Michał Czajkowski (known as Sadyk Pasha). Prof. Murphy is currently working on projects connected to Russian colonialism on the Kazakh steppe and the problem of Polish revolutionaries on Russia’s Eurasian

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  1. 2021 – American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Fellowship
  2. 2015 – Research Stipend, Polish History Museum
  3. 2012 – John Ruedy General Education Teaching Award, Georgetown University
  4. 2011 – Baltic Language Summer Institute Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  5. 2008 – Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education