Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

Since Apr. 2015
Humboldt Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany,

Since Jun. 2014
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,
National University of Mongolia (NUM)

Education

March 2004
Ph.D. in History and Area Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan

Dissertation Thesis “Mongolian Identity and Nationalism: Origin Transformation and Nature (From the thirteenth century to the mid-1920s)”. June 1996, M.A. in History, NUM (summa cum laude)

Previous Positions

2013-2014
Vice-President, NUM

2012-2013
George Kennan Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

2011-2012
Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, NUM, Mongolia

2009-2011
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2008-2009
Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

2004-2010
Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, NUM, Mongolia

1996-2000
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, NUM, Mongolia

1991-1996
Lecturer, Department of History, NUM, Mongolia

1990-1991
Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, NUM, Mongolia

Areas of Specialization

Knowledge, Power, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Construction of Collective Identity, and State and Empire building and Political Order in pre-modern Eurasia, and Post-Socialist Transition

Geographic Area

Mongolia, and Central Eurasia

Professional Affiliations

Central Eurasian Studies Society

Editorial Work

Inner Asia, Member of Editorial Board

Expertise

Higher Education Governance, University Organization and Governance, Higher Education Financing, Institutional Capacity Building, and Curriculum Development

Policy Fellowships and Consulting Experience

12.2013 - 06.2014 
International Higher Education Governance Specialist for Higher Education Reform Project, Mongolia (Funded by Asian Development Bank)

2007-2009 
Global Policy Fellow, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Washington D.C., USA

2007-2008
Policy Research Fellow, Open Society Forum-Mongolia