Anna Jordanova
PhD Student, Charles University
Regionalism, transnational econonomic and social life, glocalization, elites.
Alisher Abdreshev
Research Fellow, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies
My research interests include politics of the CIS countries at the present stage, including Russian foreign/domestic policy, European integration course of modern Ukraine, Belarus-Russia relations, as well as democratization processes in Central Asia.
Aruzhan Meirkhanova
Master's Student, Davis Center, Harvard University
I am interested in Russian foreign policy, regional organizations in Eurasia, as well as international development.
Aydogdy Kurbanov
Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin
Prehistoric and Late Antique Central Asia.
John F Murphy
Newspaper Columnist; Retired University Professor, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX
The security situation in Afghanistan and neighboring Central Asian countries.
Neil McCallum
Project Manager, The University of Glasgow
I have a particular interest in military masculinity and minority language rights and education.
Marhabo Yodalieva
Water Programme Coordinator, Kazakh-German University in Almaty
Water resources management.
Shakhrbanu Bagheri
MSc Development Studies (Central Asian Pathway), SOAS, University of London
My primary research interests lie within politics of development in Central Asia, specifically knowledge production, expertise on development, and contemporary migration issues in Kyrgyzstan.
Fiona Katherine Smith
Research Fellow, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
As a visual anthropologist, my dissertational project within the BMBF-funded research project ‘De:Link//Re:Link: local perspectives on transregional (dis-)entanglements’ looks at Ismaili responses to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) both in the Pamir Mountains, and in diaspora. Specifically, it deals with transregional entanglements of heritage and infrastructure in the lifeworlds of young, mobile Ismailis, and […]
Mathieu Lemoine
Senior Project Officer and Acting Head of Mission, OSCE in Uzbekistan
Human Rights; Human Trafficking; Media Freedom; Justice System; Penitentiary Reform; Development of the civil society.