The history department's Dr. Rian Thum has penned an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, entitled "What is a Uyghur?"  You may access the essay at the following link: https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/uyghur/.  The essay explores, in brief, issues examined at length in Dr. Thum's now-available book, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (Harvard, 2014).

To find out more about Dr. Thum, his book, and his research, please take a moment to view an online interview with Dr. Thum conducted by ChinaFile.com.