Phone: 828-227-7243
Email: vclement@wcu.edu
Office Address: McKee Building 206B

Biography:

Dr. Clement earned her doctorate degree at The Ohio State University in 2005. Her dissertation was entitled “Rewriting the Turkmen “Nation”: Literacy, Education, and Power in Central Asia, 1904-2004.”

Her major research interests concern the Islamic World History, especially Central Asia and Russia. She has lived in Turkmenistan, Turkey and Russia, and has studied the languages of those countries.

She is an active member of The American Historical Association (AHA), American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Central Eurasian Studies Association (CESS), and The World History Association.

Her article, “Alphabet Changes in Turkmenistan: State, Society, and the Everyday” in Daily Life in Central Asia, Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, eds. ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press) was published in spring 2007.

Courses Taught:

• HIST 107: “World Cultures in Historical Perspective”
• HIST 375: “Middle East History”
• HIST 308: “Central Asia: Russian and Western Rivalries for Territory, 1905-2005”