Zhanibek Arynov
Postdoctoral Scholar, Nazarbayev University
My research interests include Central Asian geopolitics and security, EU-Central Asia relations, Kazakhstan’s foreign policy, as well as international identity, image and perception studies.
Shokhruz Sharipov
Researcher, History Institute of Uzbek Science Academy
History of Economy diplomacy of Central Asian countries.
Maya Peterson
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
My research interests include Russian and Central Asian history, as well as the history of the environment, science, technology, and medicine. My first monograph, “Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin,” published as part of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Environment and History in 2019, was a finalist for […]
Markus Hauser
Founder and Owner, The Pamir Archive
History of the exploration of Central Asia with special emphasis on mapping the region, focusing on Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountains. World’s largest digital archive of text (fully searchable and editable) and visual materials (maps, photos, postcards, memorabilia) on Central Asia.
Assel Tutumlu
Assistant Professor, Near East University
I study authoritarian and hybrid political regimes by ‘reading’ politics through the prism of political theory and political economy.
Ronald (Ron) Wiley
Associate Professor, Kazakh-American Free University
Conflict studies, Restorative practices, Indigenous systems of conflict resolution.
Kate Lapham
Education Program, Open Society Foundations
My research focuses on the intersection of education, social inclusion, empowerment, and citizenship. This includes exploring the reasons and consequences for children excluded from education or tracked into segregated provision because of disability, language group, minority status, or confessional affiliation.
Yulia Poskakukhina
Independent Researcher
I am interested in the role of development aid agencies in their partner countries’ institutional reform politics, and in the related role of knowledge, social stakeholders and public debate. My latest research examined whether and how foreign aid-funded technical expertise was treated as a means of influence in the legislative politics of business taxation reforms […]
Victoria Hudson
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, King's College London
I am researching Russian soft power, with a focus on audience reception in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Estonia.
John Irgengioro
PhD Fellow, Ghent University
Soft power of Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States in Central Asia.