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SHAIRBEK JURAEV | VISITING FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS
The Central Asian Studies Institute (CASI) hosts scholars who conduct research on Central Asia through its Visiting Fellows program. The research projects may be in any discipline and represent a part of a dissertation, a scholarly article or book. Priority is given to PhD candidates conducting research on a topic related to Central Asia who are at data gathering and analysis stage of their project.
CASI provides its fellows with contacts to relevant academics and academic programs of AUCA as well as offices, agencies and people outside AUCA. Fellows also receive small office space (shared with other fellows) with connection to Internet and logistical support with visa/registration, accommodation and so on. All expenses related to travel, accommodation and so on must be covered by the visiting fellows.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested scholars are invited to fill out the form at http://tinyurl.com/766mutx and email CV and a brief (no more than 1000 words) research proposal to casi@mail.auca.kg. CASI will respond within one week. The consideration of applications is subject to availability of seats, and it is important that applicants indicate the proposed dates of the fellowship in the form, and describe any specific circumstances in the email.
Questions on visiting fellowships can be addressed to Aida Konokbaeva, CASI Financial and Administrative Coordinator, at a_konokbaeva@mail.auca.kg.
CURRENT VISITING FELLOWS
NORA WILLIAMS
Period of Fellowship: January 6, 2012 - November 6, 2012 Research Project Title: Protest Mobilization in April 2010 Contacts: norawebbwilliams@gmail.com
Nora Webb Williams is a dual Master’s degree candidate in Public Affairs and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Her primary research interest is protest mobilization in Bishkek, in particular during the events of April 2010; she intends to conduct a survey to better understand how individuals were motivated to join the collective action. Based out of AUCA, her research is sponsored by a 10-month-long Fulbright grant. Nora received her Bachelor’s degree in Russian from Middlebury College in 2006. She then joined the United States Peace Corps until the spring of 2009, teaching English for two years as a volunteer in northern Kazakhstan. After the completion of her service in Kazakhstan she spent two months in Liberia with the Peace Corps Response program. Since beginning her studies at Indiana University, Bloomington in the fall of 2009, Nora has served as the president of the International Public Affairs Association and as the chair of the newly-formed Women’s Central Eurasia Network. She has both organized and presented at conferences on the Indiana University, Bloomington campus. Nora speaks varying degrees of Russian, Kazakh, and Uzbek, depending on the day.
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ALEXANDER DIENER
Period of Fellowship: September 2011 - May 2012 Research Project Title: Mobilities and Immobilities in Central Eurasia Contacts: diener@ku.edu
Alexander Diener is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. He is the author of One Homeland or Two?: Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia’s Kazakhs (Stan ford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2009) and Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration among Kazakhstan's Germans and Koreans (Mellen Press 2004). He is the co-author of Borders: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press forthcoming 2012) and co-editor of Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Nation’s Edge (Rowman & Littlefield 2010) and a special issue of Nationalities Papers entitled Urban Issues in Post-Communist Contexts (2012). Professor Diener has held research fellowships at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, at the Institute for European, Russian, Eurasian Studies in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. During 2011-2012, he was a Regional Research Fulbright Scholar in Central and South Asia. Professor Diener’s interests include Migration; Transnationalism; Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on Development; Political and Cultural Geography of Islam; Urban Landscape Change; and the Political and Moral Consequences of Territorialization. His articles have been published in a variety of disciplinary and area studies journals, as well as various edited volumes.
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