American University of Central Asia - AUCA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Steering Committee consists of selected AUCA faculty members and provides a close oversight on operating and strategic issues and advises on the Institute's policies and resource allocation.

Members of the CASI Steering Committee as of 2011-2012 academic year

Emil Nasritdinov, Lecturer in Anthropology at the American University of Central Asia. He holds PhD from the University of Melbourne. His broad research interests include migration, urban anthropology, religion and development.

Gulnara K. Ibraeva is Associate Professor of Sociology atAmericanUniversity of Central Asia, Kandidat nauk in Political Sociology (SanktPetersburgStateUniversity). Alumnus of KyrgyzStateUniversity , Journalism Department andSanktPetersburgStateUniversity, Sociology Department. Media and Gender Expert. She teaches “Classical Social Theory”, “Contemporary and Advanced Social Theory”, Media and Society”, “Urban Sociology” and other courses.

Medet Tiulegenov, Assistant Professor at International and Comparative Politics Department of American University of Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). Medet's research and teaching interests include social movements, governance and public policy, civil society in transition countries. Until 2008 Medet has been working at Soros Foundation in Kyrgyzstan and prior to that he was a research fellow at the National Academy of Sciences and Kyrgyz National University. He graduated in history from Kyrgyz State University (1993) and received Master of Public Administration from Bowling Green State University, USA (1996).

Ruslan Rakhimov, PhD from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS - France) and an Associate Professor at and Chair of the Anthropology Program, AUCA. He was a research team member of a project on Pastoral Societies in the Transition Period: Space and Local Authorities'. Under this project, he conducted field research in Niger,Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. He published works on various issues of the transformation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh pastoral societies during Soviet times, and his research interests are nomads and socialism, migration in Central Asia, political anthropology, and soviet every-day life.

Zarylbek Kudabaev, Chair and Professor of Economics Department of AUCA. Dr. Kuabaev is one of the most experienced economists of the country certified by numerous national awards including the title “Honored Economist of the Kyrgyz Republic” /Zasluzhenniy Ekonomist/. Dr. Kudabaev has an extensive experience in public service, and served as a Chairman of the National Statistics Committee of Kyrgyzstan. He has more than 100 publications on economics and statistics.