Bilalutdinov, Azat

Azat Bilalutdinov is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University. His dissertation, "The Russian Empire Adrift: Nationality, Property, Commerce, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Black Sea, 1917–1923," draws on research in more than 40 archives across Europe, the Middle East, and North America to examine the post–World War I disintegration of the Russian Empire, foreign intervention, and revolutionary state formation. His work focuses on how successor states addressed questions of nationality, property, and trade in the revolutionary Black Sea region. More broadly, his research interests encompass the entangled histories of empires and decolonization, international law, and the global history of maritime commerce, technology, and the infrastructures of international trade.