Robert Crews in Central Asia

Robert D. Crews is an historian whose research and teaching interests focus on Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, Russia, Islam, and global history. He is the author of Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015) and For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006) and served as co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2012) and The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2008). His work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Professor Crews has served as director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford.

• Professor of History, Stanford University, since 2017

• Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching for First Years of Teaching, 2006–2007

• Carnegie Scholar, 2009

• El Centro Chicano Faculty Appreciation Award, 2011

• Stanford College Prep Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2012

• BA, Russian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• MA, History, Columbia University

• PhD, History, Princeton University