This thesis examines the symposium on script selection that was realized with the participation of the six independent Turkic nations; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Throughout history, the scripts that were employed to record Turkic Lan…
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This paper adds to the literature that examines the costs and the benefits of the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus by measuring the impact of the Customs Union foreign direct investment in Kazakhstan. To evaluate the Customs Union's impact on foreign investm…
This dissertation is a case study of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the ex-Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan during the five year period of 1990-1995. The IRP is analyzed within the framework of the categories of parallel and official Islam and the two main b…
My dissertation examines the interplay between ideology and entertainment as reflected in the holiday cycle of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. During a two-year ethnographic study of holiday celebrations and expressive culture in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China between 2004 and 2006, I …
At the intersection of English anthropology and Russian ethnography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the body of approaches loosely termed "evolutionism," and one of the most enduring ideas at the heart of this trend was the concept of "survivals" (perezhit…
This study examines the socioeconomics of state formation in medieval Afghanistan in historical and historiographic terms. It outlines the thousand year history of Ghaznavid historiography by treating primary and secondary sources as a continuum of perspectives, demonstrating th…
In the general literature on bilateral aid flows, donors' strategic interests have been found to determine aid amounts. These strategic interests include trade flows, shared cultural and linguistic ties, common ideologies, and geopolitical importance. In the case of Central Asia…
In Uzbekistan, as in most countries of the former Soviet Union, the medical discipline of narcology is a subspecialty of psychiatry from the Soviet era that focuses on treatment of problematic use of alcohol and illicit drugs. An institution of the Uzbek Ministry of Health, oper…
What does it mean for a "people" to have a potential voice in a political environment of authoritarian repression? Here I look specifically at the cultural production and performance of improvisational poetry as a form of "folklore" within the context of retraditionalization in …
Corruption has recently become one of the most discussed topics in policy and scholarly debates. An extensive body of research, conducted over the last decade, demonstrates that corruption has a negative impact on development, competitiveness, investment climate and the allocati…
This dissertation shows how market reforms can inadvertently foster constituencies within the ruling coalition who are willing to publicly oppose post-Soviet autocrats. In two cases of market reforming autocracies, Kazakhstan in Kyrgyzstan, defectors from the business elite have…
This dissertation examines outcomes of market transition, economic justice attitudes, and perceived legitimacy of the capitalist economic system in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and is based on analysis of data from nationally representative surveys organized by the author in the tw…
This dissertation, "Authoritarian Regimes and Nongovernmental Organizations: Transitions in Health Care Provision in Central Asia," is a comparative analysis of why and how authoritarian regimes manipulate health care strategies as a tool of regime survival in post-Soviet Kazakh…
This dissertation asks how we can explain the occurrence of civil war in Tajikistan and, contrary to what the theories and explanations of violent conflict in the literature lead us to expect, its absence in Uzbekistan. The factors cited in the literature on violent conflict in …
This study analyses the overland commerce of Hindustan (i.e., northern India) into Central Asia and Iran between 1526 and 1707. In approaching Mughal history from the standpoint of its trade's moral economy, this study addresses the attributes of power in Mughal India; the inter…
This dissertation seeks to answer the question of how and why a community straddled along the Russia-China border imagined itself as the modem Uyghur nation in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Reflecting the transnational character of its subject, it incorporates a broad rang…
This thesis explores two factors that have been instrumental in the evolution of society and ethnic and national identities in southern Central Asia. It is argued that the development of these identities (and the obstacles encountered in the process) are closely linked to the pl…
This dissertation aims to examine the book endowments of three donors. As with many histories of the book, the focus is on material culture--books and written documents, their production, dissemination, organization, and effect. However, this dissertation extends these issues to…
This thesis looks at competing influences in Central Asia since 1991. It looks at all five Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and identifies the three main powers with competing influences as Russia, Islam and America. It ai…