Curriculum Vitae
Education
02/2003 – 05/2003
Central Asian Program on conflict/peace studies, United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE), Budapest, Hungary Certificate in the completion of the Semester on conflict/peace studies and Advanced Teaching MA level trimester in the Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies
2000 – 2001
Institute of Education, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Diploma from the Department of Re-qualification Contents: Kyrgyz language and literature teaching
2001
American University of Central Asia / Soros Foundation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Participation in the “International Reading and Writing for critical Thinking Program”: 120-hours of study in advanced pedagogical practices
1997 – 2000
Bishkek Humanities University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Aspirantura (Post-graduate level study) Major in “Modern National Literature”
1991 – 1996
Bishkek Humanities University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Diploma in Russian Language and Literature Teaching
Work Experience
05/2008 – 03/2010
Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Senior Researcher: field-work; project management; coordinating the academic events as regional and international conferences/seminars (latest is the First Regional Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society); fundraising
Co-director of project on Building Anthropology in Eurasia, 2007-2010, Regional Seminar in Excellence of Teaching, supported by HESP/OSI, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
08/2004 – 03/2008
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Instructor in the Cultural Anthropology & Archaeology program
Developing and teaching courses: Ethnic Identity (Spring 2004, Fall 2006); Ethnographic Studies of Central Asia (Spring 2005, Spring 2006); Co-teaching: Intro to Cultural Anthropology (Fall 2005); Co-supervising students fieldworks (Summer 2001, 2005)
05/2004 – 12/2006
Aigine Cultural Research Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Part-time researcher; logistics; small project-management and fundraising
Latest projects: Sacred Sites Phenomena (2005/2006), Protection of sacred sites in Kyrgyzstan
07/2002 – 08/2004
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Assistant to the Vice-President for Academic Affairs and part-time instructor at the Kyrgyz Ethnology Department
10/1999 – 01/2002
American University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Office manager and part-time instructor at the Kyrgyz Ethnology Department
Research Experience
2005 – 2006, 2008 – 2009
Sacred Sites Phenomena in Kyrgyzstan, carried out by the Aigine Cultural Research Center, supported by the Christensen Fund, USA
Observations, interviews, logistics in Talas province; Management of web-site development on Traditional Knowledge in Kyrgyzstan
2003 – 2007
Problems of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Bishkek Neighborhood of Kelechek, supported by the ReSET in Teaching Anthropology (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and by Central Asian Research Initiative, Higher Education Support Program (CARI), and Open Society Institute (OSI)
Participant observations, interviews in Bishkek neighborhoods of Kelechek, Koq-Jar
2003 – 2006
Changes in Kyrgyz Worldview (1917-1940, Northern Kyrgyzstan) granted by Central Asian Research Initiative, Higher Education Support Program (CARI), and Open Society Institute (OSI) Main field methods: participant observations, interviews, case studies, video-taping
Presentations, Visiting Fellowships
08/2008
First Regional Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Kyrgyzstan
Organizer: ‘Anthropology of Migration’ panel organizer; presentation: ‘Internal Migration in Kyrgyzstan’
10/2007
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) 8th Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Presentation: ‘Shifting identities and integration in Kyrgyzstan in the case of the Bishkek neighborhoods’ at the panel ‘Identity in Kyrgyzstan’
04/2006; and 09 – 11/2004
Visiting fellowships to the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Library research, lectures visiting, developing of Anthropology of Conflicts and Ethnographic studies of Central Asia courses, presentations on the Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group
09/2005; and 09/2003
Regional Seminar in Excellence of Teaching of the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute organized and hosted by Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Summer Schools in Anthropology Teaching; Students’ fieldwork organization etc.
10/2004
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) 5th Conference, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Presentation ‘Problems of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Bishkek Neighborhood of Kelechek’ at the panel ‘Cultural Innovations in Kyrgyz Communities’
Language Skills
Kyrgyz: mother tongue
English and Russian: fluent in writing and speaking