Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Associated Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Department 'Integration and Conflict', Halle (Saale), Germany
2002-present
Consultant/Independent Expert, writing expert reports on various issues including migration and development, gender and migration, remittance politics, human rights, ethnicity, state, refugees on the post-Soviet regions (Central Asia and Russia)
01/2010-present
Affiliated Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Conflict and Integration department, Halle (Saale), Germany
02/2012-present
Part-time lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Responsibilities: Teaching master and bachelor level students. Recent courses: 'Anthropology of State: criticial perspective on governance, power and public health'; 'Anthropology and war'
Degrees
2010-2011
PhD in Social Anthropology, dissertation theme: “Identification, Discrimination and Communication: Khorezmian migrants in Tashkent”, defended 06.2010, certificate received 07.2011
Research Fieldwork
09/2005-10/2006
Tashkent (capital city) and Khorezm region, Uzbekistan. Anthropological fieldwork on Khorezmian migrants and their networks in Tashkent
03/2010-05/2010
Tashkent (capital city) and Khorezm region, Uzbekistan. Policy-oriented research on agricultural politics and legal environment in Uzbekistan; phase I
02/2011-04/2011
Tashkent (capital city) and Khorezm region, Uzbekistan. Policy-oriented research on agricultural politics and legal environment in Uzbekistan; phase II
Scholarships
2012 June
financial support from The Stockholm-Tsukuba International Program for Central Asian Studies to give a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Turkey
2006
financial support from The Stockholm-Tsukuba International Program for Central Asian Studies to present a paper at the conference
2005-2009
PhD Scholarship funded by Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany) together with Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2002, October
INTAS travel grant for conference participation in EURESCO Conferences organized by ESF (European Science Foundation)
Language skills
Uzbek - native
Russian - native fluent
English - fluent
German - very good
Turkmen, Kazakh, Kirgiz - good
Spanish - beginner
Education
Martin Luther University, PhD in Social Anthropology, Germany, 2005-2010
Essex University, Colchester, UK, Qualitative and Quantitative methods of Data Analysis, Summer school, July 2007, Certificate
Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale, Germany, Legal Anthropology Leistungsscheine, Methods of Research in Social Anthropology Leistungsscheine, summer semester, 2005
Central European University, two courses; Ethnopolitics in Eurasia; Ethnicity and Nationalism, summer school, June 2005
Urgench State University, Introduction to Economics, Course through Junior Achievements January, 1995 -1997, Certificate received June, 1997, Uzbekistan
Urgench State University, World Languages Faculty, 1992-1997, Diploma received July 1997, Uzbekistan
Tashkent World Languages University, Postgraduate study, 2000-2004. Certificate received December, 2003, Uzbekistan
Working Experience
03.2010-04.2011
senior researcher, ZEF Center for Development Research Bonn, Germany, Responsibilities: Policy Research in the sphere of agricultural management, identifying and classification of stakeholders, policy recommendations for the government and International organizations, writing reports, publishing the research results
01.2005-10.2009
PhD researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle Saale, Germany, Responsibilities: research for PhD dissertation, active participation in the academic life of the institute, organization of colloquia and workshops, presentation of the research work, cooperating with other researchers and establishing research networks
01. 2002-12.2004
World Languages University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate level students, Administrative work within the faculty, Conducting scientific research on comparative linguistics, Organizing research seminars and other academic events
08.1997-12.2001
Faculty member, Urgench State University.
Responsibilities: Administrative work within the faculty, Teaching graduate and undergraduate students, coordination of educational programs, Curriculum development, Examination
Teaching at Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany
SS2012
Master level students, course title ‘Anthropology of state: critical perspectives on governance, power and public health’, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
WS2012/13
Bachelor students, course title ‘Anthropology and war’, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
SS2013/2014
Bachelor students course title: ‘Statehood in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia: Comparative persepctives on criminaliszation of the state, neo-patrimonialism and the ‘hydraulic state’’
References
Prof. Dr. Nina Glick-Schiller, Email: Nina.GlickSchiller@manchester.ac.uk, Manchester University, UK.
Prof. Dr.Stephen Reyna, Email: reyna@eth.mpg.de, Prof. emeritus of Cultural Anthropology, University of New Hampshire.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klein, Email: wolfgang.klein@mpi.nl, Managing Director of Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Membership in professional societies
Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems, Germany
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
The Research Network for Post-Communist Cultural Studies (SOYUZ)
European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)
American Anthropological Association
European Association of Social Anthropologists