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Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
Visiting Scholars
Over the decade and a half of its existence, the Program has hosted a large number of Visiting Scholars in Central Asian studies. In some cases, the Program has funded these visits, while in others, the scholar's visits are made possible by outside funding sources. These scholars are typically engaged in collaborative research with Harvard colleagues, and their visits are integral to their collaborative work. The Visiting Scholars enrich the Harvard environment by giving talks, by advising Harvard students and scholars on developing research projects, and by offering different perspectives to scholarly discourse at Harvard. Click here for past visitors. |
Current VisitorsAnzhela Injigolian (spring 2009) Baktibek Isakov (spring 2009) |
Current Visitors
Venerahan Torobekova |
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Past Visitors
We are in the process of adding information about past scholars, and more will be added as we progress. If you are one of our past visiting scholars, please send us your photo and short information, and we will be pleased to add it.
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Yury Bosin was a visiting scholar at the Program (through the Center for Middle Eastern Studies) with support from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) in spring of 2001. He has taught at Moscow State University's Department of Near and Middle Eastern Countries (1999-2005) and is currently pursuing a PhD in political science at the University of New Mexico. His research has focused on internal and cross-border nationality problems in Afghanistan and Central Asia, multilateralism and integration in Central Eurasia, among other topics. [Back to top.] |
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Vera Exnerova is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University in Prague. Her research project is entitled "Islam in Soviet Central Asia: The Impact of Soviet Atheistic Policies on Local Muslim Communities." The project addresses the state of Muslim society in the 1970s and 1980s, primarily in the Ferghana Valley. She will be at the Davis Center for five months, September 2005 through January 2006, under the auspices of the Fulbright program. [Back to top.] |
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Alisher Ilkhamov was a Visiting Scholar with the Program in spring 1997 through support from the Ford Foundation. His research has focused on materials from Uzbekistan and Central Asia more widely and has address issues of national identity, the social impacts of economic policies, Islamic movements, and non-democratic regimes, among many others. He is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Univ. of London) as well as a consultant with the Open Society Foundation. [Back to top.] |
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Aktam Jalilov came to the Program in fall 2004 through Faculty Development Program Fellowship of the Open Society Institute. He is currently Head of Administration of the Academy of State and Social Construction under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. His research interests are ethnic and territorial aspects of Central Asian security and geopolitical processes in Eurasia. In December 2007, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Geopolitical Issues of Establishing of the Strategic Balance in Eurasia.” [Back to top.] |
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Nozima Kamalova is a legal specialist with the Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan. During the 2006-2007 she was Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, and was also affiliated with the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her field of specialization is International Human Rights Law in Uzbekistan and she recent research has focused on the impact of the "War on Terrorism" on human rights. She is currently pursuing an advanced law degree at Stanford University.[Back to top.] |
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Darya Lobina comes from the Tashkent State Pedagogical University, and visited Harvard as a Fellow of OSI's Central Asian Research and Training Initiative (CARTI). Her research project was entitled "Correlation of Cognitive and Emotional Components in Ethnic Identity." [Back to top.] |
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Maria Louw is an anthropologist currently based at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus. She has done extensive fieldwork in Central Asia, focusing in particular on everyday religion, morality and politics in the context of post-Soviet social change. She was a visiting PhD candidate at the Program in spring 2001, while she was working on the dissertation which will appear later as a book on everyday Islam in Bukhara. [Back to top.] |
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Azim Malikov teaches in the History Dept. at Samarqand State University (Uzbekistan). He came to the Program in spring of 2003 through IREX's Regional Scholars Exchange Program. He topic of research was the formation of ethnic identities in the Zeravshan oases of Bukhara and Samarqand. [Back to top.] |
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Nazgul Mingisheva was a visiting scholar with the program in spring 2003 through the Central Asia Research Initiative of the Open Society Institute. Her research focuses on the political sociology and social anthropology of ethnicity in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian region. Most recently, she conducted a project on "Regional Development Problems in Kazakhstan" as a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. At home, she teaches at Karaganda State University in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. [Back to top.] |
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Bulat Rakhimzyanov teaches at Kazan State University, Tatarstan, Russia. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Davis Center, September 2006-March 2007, working on a project on "The Eastern Policy of Muscovy in the 15th-16th Centuries in Western Historical Thought." [Back to top.] |
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Ed Schatz came to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow of the Davis Center, while he worked on turning his dissertation into a book: Modern Clan Politics (U. Washington Press, 2004). He is currently a faculty member at the University of Toronto, and his current research interests include qualitative methods, social mobilization, and identity politics in Central Asia and the former USSR. His current projects include a book on the United States as a symbol and actor in Central Asia, as well as an edited volume on ethnographic approaches to political research. [Back to top.] |
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Victor Shnirelman was a visiting scholar at the Davis Center in 1999-2000. He is a leading researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Moscow). Following his training and early work in history and archaeology, for the past two decades, his work has applied an anthropological approach to issues ethnicity and nationalism, politics of the past, social memory, racism, and xenophobia. Among his rich record of publication, the following are prominent book publications: "Byt' alanami: intellektualy i politika na Severnom Kavkaze v XX veke [Being Alans: Intellectuals and politics in the Northern Caucasus]," Moscow, 2006; "Voiny pamiati: mify, identichnost' i politika v Zakavkazie [The wars of memory: Myths, identity and politics in Transcaucasia]," Moscow, 2003; "The Myth of the Khazars: Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s-1990s," Jerusalem, 2002; "The Value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia," Osaka, 2001; "Who gets the past? Competition for Ancestors among Non-Russian Intellectuals in Russia," Washington, DC/London, 1996. [Back to top.] |
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Mukaram Toktogulova came to the Program in fall 2004 and spring 2006 through the Central Asian Research Initiative of the Open Society Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology of the American University-Central Asia (Bishkek). Her research has focused on the traditional culture of the Kyrgyz and the various currents in the development of Islam and related religious practices in Kyrgyzstan following independence. Her current research is on the relationship between changing national identity and use of language in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. [Back to top.] |
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