Marina Tolmacheva
Professor of History
Wilson-Short Hall 309 – 509-335-5139
tolmache@wsu.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad, 1970
Academic & Professional Interests
Tolmacheva teaches Islamic civilization and Middle East history. She served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1998–2005) and director of the Asia Program (1993–2002). Tolmacheva is currently on leave from WSU.
Publications
Her publications number over 100 and include The Arabic Sources of the 13th–14th Centuries for the Ethnography and History of Africa South of the Sahara (Moscow, 2002, in Arabic and Russian); The Pate Chronicle (Michigan State University Press, 1993); "The Muslim Women in Soviet Central Asia" (Central Asian Survey, 1993); and "Ibn Battuta on Women's Travel in the Dar al-Islam" (Women and the Journey, Washington State University Press, 1993).