Eric Schluessel is an assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the George Washington University. He is the author of Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia as well as the textbook An Introduction to Chaghatay. He received his PhD in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 2016, previously taught at the University of Montana, and was a Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Prof. Schluessel’s Humanities Center project builds on work conducted under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities towards a scholarly edition and English translation of the Uyghur region’s preeminent chronicle, the Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mūsā Sayrāmī.