Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Wilson Center Project

The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucus Frontier

Project Summary

examination of the Russian colonization of the North Caucasus and the creation of a frontier society by Cossack settlers; how the Cossacks lived; how they struggled within an often hostile military environment; how they transformed the ecology and the economy of the region; how they created a new culture and society along an amazingly complex ethnic frontier