Princeton University Professor to deliver public lectures in Baku

Baku. 21 May. REPORT.AZ/ On May 21-25  Princeton University Professor Dr. Michael A. Reynolds, an internationally renowned professor on Middle Eastern and Eurasian History, will deliver public lectures on the “Geopolitics of the Birth and Death of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic” at Baku American Center and a number of universities: Baku State University, Azerbaijan Pedagogical University, Khazar University and Western Caspian University, Report was told in the US Embassy to Azerbaijan.

Professor Reynolds will hold meetings with members of the Institute of History at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences staff and deliver keynote speeches on “The Birth of Azerbaijani Democracy in its Global Context” at ADA University’s International Conference dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of ADR.

Baku State University has also invited Dr. Reynolds to be a Keynote Speaker at the international conference on Azerbaijan – 100: The First Parliamentary Republic in the Muslim East. The conference will take place from May 21-23, 2018 at Baku State University. International and local historians will attend the conference, as well as state officials.

Michael A. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on Eurasian history and American foreign policy. He is the author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), a recipient of the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize, and editor of Constellations of the Caucasus: Empires, Peoples, and Faiths

(Markus Weiner, 2015). In addition to his historical research, Reynolds researches and writes on contemporary Turkey, Russia, the Caucasus and American foreign policy. He is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.