“Afghanistan and the Soviet Colonial Archive,” in Decolonizing Afghanistan, eds. Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025), 54-71.

“Afghan Refugees as Political Actors,” co-written with Sabauon Nasseri, in Cold War Refugees: Connected Histories of Displacement and Migration across Postcolonial Asia, ed. Yumi Moon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025), 135-157. 

‘Sellers of the Homeland’: Narratives of Treason and Fidelity in Afghanistan,” in Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns, eds. Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).

“Gender, Religious Authority, and Media in Afghanistan,” The Written and the Spoken in Central Asia/Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in Zentralasien – Festschrift für Ingeborg Baldauf, ed. Redkollegia (Potsdam: edition-tethys, 2021), 359-379. 

“New Publics and the Challenge of Peace in Afghanistan,” in In Search of Peace for Afghanistan: Historical Letters of President Najibullah and Dr. M. Hassan Kakar: A Collection of Essays, ed. Jawan Shir Rasikh (Kabul: Kakar History Foundation Press, 2021), 175-188.

“Fear and Loathing in the Russian Empire,” in Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared History?, ed., James Renton and Ben Gidley (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 79-98.

“The Russian Worlds of Islam,” Islam and the European Empires, ed., David Motadel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 35-52.

“Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of Disorder,” Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930, ed., James Gelvin and Nile Green (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014), 121-142.

“The Taliban and Nationalist Militancy in Afghanistan,” Contextualizing Jihadi Thought, ed., Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi (London and NY: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012), 343-368.

“Muslim Networks, Imperial Power, and the Local Politics of Qajar Iran,” Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts, ed. Uyama Tomohiko (London:  Routledge, 2012), 174-188.

“An Empire for the Faithful, A Colony for the Dispossessed,” Cahiers d’Asie centrale no. 17/18:  Turkestan russe: une colonie comme les autres?, ed., Svetlana Gorshenina and Sergei Abashin (Tashkent and Paris: Collection de l’IFEAC, 2009), 79-106.

“Introduction,” with Amin Tarzi, in The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 1-58.

“Moderate Taliban?” in The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 238-273.

“Epilogue:  Afghanistan and the Pax Americana,” with Atiq Sarwari, in The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, 311-355.

“Empire and the Confessional State:  Islam and Religious Politics in Nineteenth-Century Russia,” Russian-language version of American Historical Review article in Russkii sbornik vol. 2 (Moscow:  Modest Kolerov, 2006). 

“Civilization in the City:  Architecture, Urbanism, and the Colonization of Tashkent,” Architectures of Identity in Russia, 1500-2000, ed., James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland (Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 2003), 117-132.