- Associate Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
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.
- Ph.D. in Russian and East European History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) 2016
- M.A. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States) 2012
- B.A. in History (with Honors); Russian and East European Studies (with Honors), University of Kansas - (Lawrence, Kansas, United States) 2009
Academic Articles12
- Riegg, S. B. (2022). Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus, by Krista A. Goff. Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 56(2), 266-268.
- Riegg, S. B. (2022). Aid to Armenia: Humanitarianism and Intervention from the 1890s to the Present. The Russian Review: an American quarterly devoted to Russia past and present. 81(2), 382-383.
- Riegg, S. B. (2021). Resettling the Borderlands: State Relocations and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus, by Farid Shafiyev. 55(1), 107-110.
- Riegg, S. B. (2020). Dreams of French silk at Russia's edge in the 1820s and 1830s. Cahiers du monde russe. 61(1-2), 205-230.
Books1
- Riegg, S. B. (2020). Russia's Entangled Embrace, The Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914. DE GRUYTER.
Chapters7
- Riegg, S. B (2020). Integration and Reorientation. Russia's Entangled Embrace. 89-123. Cornell University Press.
- Riegg, S. B. (2020). Armenians in the Russian Political Imagination, 18141829. Russia's Entangled Embrace. 50-88. Cornell University Press.
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- Riegg, S. B. (2020). Nadir and Normalization, 18961914. Russia's Entangled Embrace. 199-236. Cornell University Press.
- Riegg, S. B. (2020). The Embrace of an Empire, 18011813. Russia's Entangled Embrace. 12-49. Cornell University Press.
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