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Daniel Prior, assistant professor of history at Miami University, has been selected to receive a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Prior is one of only 10 professors in the country to be appointed as an ACLS/Social Science Research Council/National Endowment for the Humanities International and Area Studies Fellow.
Prior’s research concerns a class of hereditary nobles that ruled the northern Kirghiz (Central Asian Turkic mountain nomads) from the early 19th century until the Stalin era.
“I argue that these nobles constituted a special estate within northern Kirghiz society that does not fit the familiar models of ‘tribal’ power used in historical and anthropological analyses of Eurasian nomad political formations,” Prior said.
According to the award letter Prior received, the competition for ACLS Fellowships “was extremely rigorous this year.” The Fellowship will support Prior’s research from January through July, 2010. Prior also will receive a paid research leave from Miami’s College of Arts and Science for the fall of 2009.
In addition to his teaching duties, Prior serves as the executive director of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, an international scholarly organization currently based in Miami’s Havighurst Center.
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