Background
Derluguian was born in Krasnodar, in the North Caucasus.
Derluguian was born in Krasnodar, in the North Caucasus.
Derluguian studied at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University from 1978 to 1985, graduating with a master"s degree in African studies with a focus on the modern history of Mozambique.
His area of specialty is in ethnic violence, guerrilla movements and revolutions, particularly in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa, as well as post-Cold War globalization. He is currently an associate professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. After the 1921 Treaty of Kars returned Artvin to Turkey, they moved to the Donbass village of Yenakiyevo where Derluguian"s father, Matvei (Martiros) Martirosovich Derlugyan, was born.
Derluguian"s mother, Yekaterina Kondratyevna Tarasenko, was born in the village of Starovelichkovskaya, Krasnodar Krai to a family of Kuban Cossacks.
He studied Portuguese, English and Xhosa languages. In the 1980s, he moved to Tete, where he spent two years during the Mozambique Civil War.
He served as an adviser to the Soviet planner for the People"s Republic of Mozambique. He earned his doctorate in history from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1990, and that same year moved to the United States to study at State University of New York at Binghamton under noted sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein.
Derluguian received a doctorate in sociology in 1995.
Derluguian taught at Cornell University, the United States Institute of Peace, the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. Since 2013, he has been in the Middle East at New York University Abu Dhabi.