Matthew Hulstine

Matthew Hulstine received his BA in history and international studies from the University of Denver in 2016.  After participating in the 2015 CLS Program for Persian in Tajikistan, Matthew discovered his passion for Central Asia.  This led him to pursue his graduate education in Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University where he received his MA in 2019.  Currently, he is pursuing his PhD in Central Eurasian studies with a minor in history.  His interests include depictions of identity, alterity, and intellectual networks in 19th- and early 20th-century Central Asia. 

Matthew’s previous research utilizing Persian language chronicles centered on the Russian conquest of Central Asia during the 1860s and 1870s which profoundly influenced Central Asian historians of the period, thereby changing established norms of self-representation and depiction of others.  The next stage of his research involves the archives of the Abu Rayhan Beruni Institute in Tashkent, where he is branching out into other genres of sources to see if this change is reflected across the documentary record in different segments of society, thereby increasing the understanding about new and emerging modes of representation and depiction in Central Asia during the late 19th century.