Recent Publications
BOOK: “The Touch of Civilization” Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2017.
(http://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3080-the-touch-of-civilization)
(https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Civilization-Comparing-American-Colonization-ebook/dp/B06XSFY1SS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502975007&sr=8-1&keywords=sabol+touch+of+civilization)
“In Search of Citizenship: The Society of American Indians and the First World War,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 118 (Summer 2017), 268-272.
“‘It was a pretty good war, but they stopped it too soon’: The American Empire, Native Americans and World War I,” in Empires in the First World War, edited by Andrew Jarboe and Richard Fogarty (I. B. Tauris, 2014), 193-216.
“Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization: The ‘Touch of Civilization’ on the Sioux and Kazakhs,” Western Historical Quarterly XLIII (Spring 2012), 29-52. Winner, 2013 Arrell M. Gibson Award given annually by the Western Historical Association for the best essay on the history of Native Americans.
“Making a Home for the Other: Kazakhs, Sioux, and Self-Determination in Soviet and American Contexts, 1920-1930s,” in The Soviet Union and the United States: Rivals of the Twentieth Century, Coexistence and Competition, edited by Eva-Maria Stolberg (Peter Lang Edition, 2013), 61-86.
Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness. Palgrave-Macmillian, 2003.
“International Terrorism and Central Asia”, Central Asia and the Caucasus (#5, 2008), 139-45.
Turkmenistan: Flawed, Fragile and Isolated”, Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?: Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia, Edited by Emilian Kavalski (Surry, England: Ashgate, 2010) 175-94.
Research Interests
Central Asian and Russian History, First World War, Nationalism and National Identity, Soviet and Post-Soviet nationalities policy, Imperialism and Colonialism, and American West.
Courses Taught
- HIST 3169, Central Asia from 1800 – Present
- HIST 2100, Origins of the First World War
- HIST 2251, Russian History 1552-1861
- HIST 2252, Russian History From 1861-Present
- LBST 2102, Global Connections
- HIST 2001, The Viking Age
- HIST 3116, Europe in the 20th Century
- HIST 3141, World War I
- HIST 6000, Comparative Nationalisms
Biography
Education
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1998.
Current Projects:
My current project furthers my research into Indigenous peoples’ socio-political responses to internal colonization in the United States, Russia, and Sweden in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. In particular, this current comparison project examines the development of the Society of American Indians and the Sámi Landsmöte between 1905 and 1925. This is an extension of my earlier research for my book, ‘The Touch of Civilization’: Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization, published by the University Press of Colorado in April 2017.
