Steven Sabol Named Arrell M. Gibson Award Recipient

September 25, 2013
Categories: College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, Honors & Awards
Steve Sabol

The Western History Association has chosen Steven Sabol, associate professor of history at UNC Charlotte, to be the 2013 Arrell M. Gibson Award recipient for his article “Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization: The ‘Touch of Civilisation’ on the Sioux and Kazakhs,” published by the Western Historical Quarterly in Spring 2012. The Arrell M. Gibson Award is given annually for the best essay on the history of Native Americans. His research interests include Central Asian and Russian History, First World War, Comparative history, Imperialism and Colonialism, and American West.

Recent Publications

  • Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness. Palgrave-Macmillian, 2003.
  • “Turkmenbashi: Going it Alone,” Problems of Post-Communism 50 (September-October, 2003): 48-57.
  • “Kazakh Resistance to Russian Colonization: Interpreting the Kenesary Kasymov Revolt, 1837-1847,” Otan Tarikhy (#3, 2002): 24-39.
  • “Russian-English Rivalry in Central Asia,” History of the Turks, Vol. 5 (Turkish Historical Society, 2002).
  • “International Terrorism and Central Asia”, Central Asia and the Caucasus (#5, 2008), 139-45.
  • Turkmenistan: Flawed, Fragile and Isolated”, Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?: Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia, Edited by Emilian Kavalski (Surry, England: Ashgate, 2010) 175-94.
  • “Making a Home for the Other: Kazakhs, Sioux, and Self-Determination in Soviet and American Contexts, 1920s-1930s,” in Rivals in the 20th Century: The United States and the Soviet Union, edited by Eva Maria Stolberg (Peter Lang, 2013), 61-86.