Position:

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / All Souls College

Email:

thomas.welsford@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• History of Islamic Central Asia, ca. 1200-1800
• History of Iran and the Caucasus, ca. 1500-1750
• Islamicate narrative and genre
• Post-Soviet Cinema

Current Projects:

• Cataloguing Arabic-script documents held in the Samarqand Provincial Museum, Uzbekistan
• Converting D.Phil thesis into a monograph, 'Four Types of Loyalty in Early-Modern Central Asia'

Courses Taught:

• Readings in Cultural History

Recent Publications:

• ‘Piety, Refuge and Dynastic Change: The Re-Opening of Iran to Central Asian Pilgrim Traffic, 1600-1650’, in A. Papas, T. Zarcone and T. Welsford (eds.), The Routes of Pilgrimage between Central Asia and the Hijaz (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming)