R. Charles Weller

R. Charles Weller, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. His work focuses on religious-cultural identity and relations in Western-Islamic and world history, with a special view to Russian & Islamic Central Asia, the Middle East and United States. He was a visiting fellow at Yale University (2010-11) before joining the department of history at WSU. He was also appointed a non-residential visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (2014-19) and an affiliate faculty for research with the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University (2021-22). (See: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rcharles-Weller/research).