Dr. Deborah Dergousoff is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) where she is teaching the Senior Thesis Seminar, a course in Gender Studies, and a section of the First Year Seminar program. Deborah received her PhD in Sociology from Simon Fraser University in Canada in June 2014.  Her dissertation entitled, An Institutional Ethnography of Women Entrepreneurs and Post-Soviet Rural Economies in Kyrgyzstan, involved one year of fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan during 2010-2011.  She has presented papers at the annual Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada, shared her research at conferences of the International Centre of Research and Information on Public and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC) in both Canada and Sweden, and also presented a paper at the 3rd EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise sponsored by the European Research Network at Roskilde University, Denmark (2011).