Martin Dixon

I am a DPhil working on Central Asian history at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and New College. Although I am broadly interested in the premodern and modern history of the region, my current focus is on sources in Persian and Russian related to Bukhara in its period as a Russian protectorate (roughly 1868-1921). Previously (MPhil 2022-24, Magdalen College, Oxford), I looked at early Soviet Tajikistan and the writer Sadriddin ‘Ayni (1878-1954). I continue to be interested in the history of Soviet Tajikistan and Soviet Tajik literature. Even more previously (BA 2018-22, Brasenose College, Oxford) I studied Czech and Slovak literature and I remain very much interested in that, too!