Supervisor: Dr Alexander Morrison
Research topic
My doctoral research focuses on the history of Central Asia under Russian rule. I began studying Central Asian history in 2019, building on some of my earlier work done while studying at King’s College London.
Conferences, presentations and workshops [selection]
In Hillary term 2024, I had co-convened a one-day workshop, Approaches and Perspectives for the Caucasus and Central Asia, which provided a forum for graduate students and early career researchers working on the two regions across the disciplines ranging from History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to Area Studies and Political Science. I had organised the panels on the Caucasus and Central Asia in the Tsarist period and presented one of my work-in-progress papers.
Russian Central Asia, a View from Simla: The Trans-Imperial Exchange of Knowledge and Expertise, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 2024
The conquest of Turkestan in European visual history, Histoire visuelle de la conquête du Turkestan par l’Empire russe, Sorbonne Université / Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, October 2022
N. S. Lykoshin and his Letters from Native Tashkent series (1894-1896), British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge, April 2022
Art History and Archaeology of Central Asia: National, Regional and Global, Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre (ONGC) for the study of the history, languages and cultures of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia, University of Oxford, October-November 2020
Teaching [selection]
In Michaelmas term 2022, I was a Non-stipendiary Lecturer at New College teaching the 3rd year History course for undergraduate students on the Empire and Nation in Russia and the USSR course.
I was also a Junior Teaching Fellow at the Krasis programme at the Ashmolean Museum. Read my blog for the Museum based on my introductory class on the history of Central Asia here.
In Russian
Роман Ошаров является аспирантом Факультета Истории в Оксфордском университете. Диссертация Ошарова посвящена истории Российской империи и Центральной Азии в конце XIX — начале XX века. Он начал изучать историю Центральной Азии в 2019 году, опираясь на некоторые из своих предыдущих работ, выполненных во время обучения в Королевском колледже Лондонского университета.