Previously Funded Projects in Central Asia

James Pickett
Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University
Final Report: The Persianate Ulama in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Central Asia
Tajikistan

Dr. Emily O'Dell
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Final Report: Legislating the Religious and National Parameters of Islam: Recent Fatwas from Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan

Natalie Belsky
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Final Report: Journey to Survival in the East: Soviet Jewish Life in Evacuation during the Second World War
Kazakhstan, Russia

Todd Drummond
Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Policy, Michigan State University
Final Report: A Construct Validity Study of the New University Admissions Test in Kyrgyzstan: What is the Evidence?
Kyrgyzstan

Michelle Reid Hamel
Ph.D. Candidate in Demography, University of California, Berkeley
Final Report: Tajikistan Household Labor, Migration and Fertility Panel with Women's Time Use Survey (Does labor migration erode human capital and increase gender inequality in sending countries?) (Evidence from Tajikistan)
Tajikistan

Blake Puckett
Research Scholar and Associate Instructor, Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington
Final Report: Exporting the Rule of Law to Central Asia: International Actors and Local Perspectives
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

Megan Rancier
Pre-doctoral Candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Final Report: The Kyl-Kobyz, the Conservatory, and 'Ethno-Rock': Contemporary Kazakh Music, National Identity, and Inter-ethnic Relations in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan

William Sumits
Pre-doctoral Candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies
Final Report: The Shashmaqam musical tradition in the 19th century and its relation to the 12 maqam tradition of the late-medieval period in Central Asia
Tajikistan

Alan J. DeYoung
Professor, University of Kentucky
Final Report: Making Market Choices in Higher Education: How Students Choose Universities and Specializations and how Universities Create New Specializations in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan

Amanda E. Wooden
Assistant Professor, Bucknell University
Final Report: Environmental Concern and Popular ‘Mobilizability’ in Kyrgyzstan: Identifying Public Opinion, Elite Perceptions, Conflict Potential & Political Will
Kyrgyzstan