A prestigious honor has been awarded to scholarly work co-edited by Associate Professor Meiramgul Kussainova from the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies at the School of Sciences and Humanities at NU. The Best Historical Materials Committee of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), has selected Voices from the Steppe: A Thematic Sourcebook of the Kazakh Steppe and the South Urals as one of the Best Historical Materials published in 2023 and 2024.
This recognition places Voices from the Steppe among the most valuable historical resources of recent years, highlighting its scholarly excellence and contribution to historical research. "Voices from the Steppe" presents 101 sources on the history of the Kazakh Steppe and Russia’s South Urals region from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It offers a range of texts—local histories, songs, poems, letters, memoirs, religious-legal writings, and official documents—that shed light on politics, culture, spirituality, economic activities, gender, and daily life in one of the world’s great grasslands.
The ALA’s Best Historical Materials list is a highly regarded distinction that acknowledges outstanding reference works, bibliographies, and primary source collections that contribute significantly to historical scholarship. The selection of Voices from the Steppe underscores the global impact of NU’s faculty research and their role in advancing Central Asian studies on an international stage.
The full announcement is available on the ALA website through this link: 2024 Best Historical Materials
You can check the sourcebook here.
This recognition places Voices from the Steppe among the most valuable historical resources of recent years, highlighting its scholarly excellence and contribution to historical research. "Voices from the Steppe" presents 101 sources on the history of the Kazakh Steppe and Russia’s South Urals region from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It offers a range of texts—local histories, songs, poems, letters, memoirs, religious-legal writings, and official documents—that shed light on politics, culture, spirituality, economic activities, gender, and daily life in one of the world’s great grasslands.
The ALA’s Best Historical Materials list is a highly regarded distinction that acknowledges outstanding reference works, bibliographies, and primary source collections that contribute significantly to historical scholarship. The selection of Voices from the Steppe underscores the global impact of NU’s faculty research and their role in advancing Central Asian studies on an international stage.
The full announcement is available on the ALA website through this link: 2024 Best Historical Materials
You can check the sourcebook here.