Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 2017
Robert D. McChesney will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor in February-March 2017. Professor McChesney will deliver a guest lecture on 28 February and a master class on 6 March within the Central Asia Initiative at Leiden University.
Robert D. McChesney, Emeritus Professor, New York University, is the author of Waqf in Central Asia (1991), Central Asia: Foundations of Change (1996), Kabul Under Siege (1999), and numerous articles and book chapters. He is also the founder and director of the Afghanistan Digital Library. His most recent work is The History of Afghanistan Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Sirāj al-tawārīkh published by Brill.