Book

2006, in press.
Defending the Border: Politics, religion, and modernity in the Georgian borderlands. (220 pages). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Articles and book chapters

2006, forthcoming.
Asymmetries on the ‘religious market’ in Kyrgyzstan. Or, on the self-fulfilling prophecies of neoliberal ideologies.” In Chris Hann et al, The Postsocialist Religious Question. Munich: Lit Verlag.

2006, forthcoming.
Powerful documents: On the role of passports in the construction, solidification, and partial demise of the Iron Curtain between (Soviet) Georgia and Turkey.” In: Asymmetry and Proximity in Border Encounters, edited by J. L. Bacas and W. Kavanagh. Oxford: Berghahn.

2005, in press.
On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan,” Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology, issue 46, pp. 147-57.

2005.
Missionary Encounters in Kyrgyzstan: Challenging the national ideal,” Central Eurasian Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 13-16.

2003.
The social life of empty buildings: Imagining the transition in post-Soviet Ajaria,” Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology, issue 41, pp. 121-136.

2003
Rural credit institutions in Kyrgyzstan: A case-study in the practice of transition aid.” In: Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector, edited by M. Spoor. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, pp. 183-195.

2003.
Shifting frontiers: Islam and Christianity in post-Soviet Ajaria,” ISIM Review, no. 12, pp. 46-47.

2002.
Religion, nation and state in Georgia: Christian expansion in Muslim Ajaria.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 249-273.

2001.
Kleinschalige kredietverlening in Kirgizie: Een case studie naar de praktijk van transitiehulp.” Oost-Europa Verkenningen (March 2001), pp. 73-87 (in Dutch).

2000.
Dwingende gastvrijheid.” In: Miniature Etnografiche, edited by H. Driessen and H. De Jonge, pp. 127-31. Nijmegen: Sun (in Dutch).

1999.
The wounded body: Reflections on the demise of the ‘Iron Curtain’ between Georgia and Turkey.” The Anthropology of East-Europe Review, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 49-58.

Reports and working papers

2006, forthcoming.
“Religion und Kultur in Zentralasien: Sowjetische Vermächtnisse und neue Herausforderungen”, Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft – 2006.

2005.
Christian conversion in a changing world: Confronting issues of inequality, modernity, and morality”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2004-2005, pp. 23-34, with Virginie Vaté, and Christiane Falge.

2005.
“Baptized Georgian: Religious conversion to Christianity in autonomous Ajaria”, Halle/S: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series, no. 71 (30 pages).

Book Review

2006, forthcoming.
Review of: Francine Hirsch. 2005. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic knowledge and the making of the Soviet Union. In Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes.

Submitted for publication

“‘Culture’ as a tool and an obstacle: Missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan,” submitted to, and under review by, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

(with Julie McBrien). “Turning Marx on his Head: Missionaries, ‘extremists,’ and archaic secularists in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan,” submitted to, and under review by, Critique of Anthropology.

Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms, and the Technologies of Faith, edited by M. Pelkmans, under consideration with Berghahn, book series “Dislocations.”