2009 Reports

Faculty News

Edward Allworth, Professor Emeritus of Turkic-Soviet Studies, after lecturing for years about the importance of oral history in Central Asian cultural affairs, decided that it was time "to take his own medicine." In his new book, From Mansion to Cottage, Allworth writes about his own ancestors, back to the Christianized Bengali lady, Eliza Balfour, his great great grandmother, and records his surprise and the consequences of recently finding his own grandmother's birthplace in upstate Lyons, New York.