Curriculum Vitae Marina A. TOLMACHËVA
OFFICE ADDRESS: HOME ADDRESS: Department of History Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4030 USA (509)335-5139, FAX 335-4171 210 NW North Street Pullman, WA 99163 (509) 334-2673 <tolmache@wsu.edu>
EDUCATION:
	Leningrad University, 1960-1966. Diploma with distinction from the Oriental Faculty, in the specialty History of the Arab Countries.
	Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1970, Ph.D. in History. Dissertation: "East Africa in Medieval Arabic Accounts: An Ethno-Geographical Study."
RECENT EMPLOYMENT:
1998 – present:	Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, WSU (responsibilities include: curriculum and program development, student affairs, supervision of secondary teacher preparation programs, coordination of international scholars exchange programs).
1993 --2002:	Director, Asia Program, WSU
1987 -- present:	Department of History, Washington State University (1987 - Assistant, 1990 - Associate, 1996 - Full Professor).
SELECTED RECENT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2002-04	Open Society Institute, Central Asian Research Initiative, mentor grant.
2002	East-West Center, Hawaii, Summer Institute on Southeast Asian Studies.
1999	Washington State Fellow, American Council on Education.
1998	Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
1998	Visiting Professor, Kyrgyz National University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).
1995 - 96	Fulbright Fellowship (Kyrgyzstan).
1994 -96	National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant
1994, 1991	NEH Summer Institutes.
1994, 1988	American Philosophical Society Grants-in-Aid.
1993, 1989, 1985	NEH Summer Seminars.
1992 - 93	Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities.
1990-91	NEH Translation grant (group project).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
	Books:
	(1) The Pate Chronicle, xvi + 607 pp. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993).
	(2) L.E. Kubbel, V.V. Matveev, M.A. Tolmacheva. Arabic Sources of the 13-14th Centuries for the Ethnography and History of Africa South of the Sahara (Moscow, Nauka, 2002; in Russian and Arabic). “Introduction” and three chapters.
	(3) L.E. Kubbel and V.V. Matveev, [with M.A. Tolmacheva]. Arabic Sources of the 12-13th Centuries for the Ethnography and History of Africa South of the Sahara (Leningrad, 1985; in Russian and Arabic): Four chapters and apparatus.
	Selected Recent Articles:
2003	“Islam in Kyrgyzstan: Some Historiographical Approaches,” in Istochniki: istoriia i perspektivy izucheniia, proceedings of the international conference celebrating the 2200th anniversary of Kyrgyz statehood. (Bishkek: Kyrgyz State Pedagogical University, 2003), pp. 13-23.
	“ The ‘Flowing Waters’ of Osh,” in Kyrgyzskaia gosudarstvennost’: istoki, sovremennost’, perspektivy, proceedings of the seminar in honor of the 2200th anniversary of Kyrgyz statehood. Bishkek: Ministry of Education and Culture, 2003, pp. 33-35.
	Three articles forthcoming in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (UK, 2003): “Mecca and Medina” (1,800 words), “Tsybikov” (2,000 words), “Yakut” (2,200 words).
2000	“The Early Russian Exploration and Mapping of the Chinese Frontier," Cahiers du Monde russe, vol. 41, no. 1 (January-March 2000), pp. 41-56.
	Nine articles in Travel, Trade, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: an Encyclopedia, edited by John B. Friedman and Kristen M. Figg (NY: Garland Publishing, 2000): "Albertus Magnus [Albert the Great] (c.1200-1280)" (pp. 11-12),"al-Idrisi (1100-1165)"(pp. 14-15),"Cartography, Arabic " (pp. 98-101),"Caspian Sea" (p.101),"Mare Oceanum," (pp. 375-376),"Mecca" (pp. 387-389),"Medina" (pp. 389-390),"Navigation, Arab” (pp. 437-439),"Women Travelers, Islamic" (pp. 652-653).
1998	"Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj," in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, edited by Gavin R.G. Hambly (New York: St.Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 161-178.
1997	4 Articles in the Encyclopeadia of the History of Sciences, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997): “East and West: Africa in the Transmission of Knowledge from East to West” (pp. 259-261), “Environment and Nature: Africa” (pp. 283-287), “Navigation in Africa” (pp. 759-762), “Navigation in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea” (pp. 765-769).
1996	"Intercultural Transmission and Selection: Greek Toponyms in Arab Geography," in Tradition, Transmission, Transformation, edited by F. Jamil Ragep & Sally P. Ragep with Steven Livesey (Leiden: Brill, 1996), pp. 419-440.
1996	"Bertius and al-Idrisi: an Experiment in Orientalist Cartography" Terrae Incognitae 28 (1996): 36-45.
1995-1996	Two collections of essays: “Essays in Swahili Geographical Thought,” Swahili Forum 2 /Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 42 (1995): 1-40 & Swahili Forum 3 /Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 47 (Cologne, 1996): 173-196.
1995	"The Medieval Arabic Geographers and the Beginnings of Modern Orientalism," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 27/2 (1995): 141-156.
1994	"The Muslim Woman and Atheism in Central Asia," Islamic Studies 33/2-3 (1415/1994): 183-201.
1993	"Ibn Battuta on Women's Travel in the Dar al-Islam" in Women and the Journey: The Female Travel Experience, edited by Bonnie Frederick and Susan N. McLeod (Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1993): 119-140.
1992	"Cultural Perceptions of the Islamic Frontier in Arabic Geographical Literature," in Contacts Between Cultures: West Asia and North Africa (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) vol. I, pp. 361-368.
1991	"Ptolemy's East Africa in Early Medieval Arab Geography," Journal for the History of Arabic Science, vol. 9 (1991), Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 31-44.
	"Ptolemaic Influence on Medieval Arab Geography: The Case Study of East Africa" in Discovering New Worlds: Essays on Medieval Exploration and Imagination, edited by Scott D. Westrem (New York: Garland, 1991), pp. 125-141.
1990	"Cossacks at Sea: Pirate Tactics in the Frontier Environment," East European Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4, 483-512.
	"Sur la côte swahélie aux frontières naturelles et culturelles de la civilisation," in Pour Jean Malaurie (Paris: Plon, 1990), pp. 435-447.
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