Scott Levi

Member Type: eHistory Contributor
Location: Columbus, Ohio

About Scott Levi:

Scott Levi (Ph.D. in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000) teaches Islamic Central Asian history at Ohio State University. He was a founding member of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, and has traveled widely through the region.  He is the author of The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900 (Leiden, 2002), editor of India and Central Asia: Commerce and Culture, 1500-1800 (New Delhi, 2007), and co-editor, with Ron Sela, of Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Sources (Bloomington, forthcoming). His current research focuses on Central Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries, on the eve of the Russian colonial era.