Biographical details
David Brophy studies the social and political history of China northwest, particularly the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its connections with the Islamic and Russian/Soviet worlds. Finishing his PhD in 2011, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, at the Australian National University, before going to the University of Sydney in 2013. es.
History
His first book, Uyghur Nation (2016), is on the politics of Uyghur nationalism between China and the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. He currently holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship, for a project entitled "Empire and Religion in Early Modern Inner Asia" in which he is exploring Inner Asian perspectives on the rise of the Qing in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.
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