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September 30, 2004
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

Due to the lack of proper management and capital availability, however, most of Tajikistan’s population does not have regular access to water nor can it rely on the safety of its drinking...

September 30, 2004
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

My study is multi-disciplinary and gives a historical perspective of the cultural parameters circumscribing women’s status in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

September 30, 2004
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

The purpose of this project was to examine the previously unstudied history and contemporary situation of the Muslim shrines of Tajikistan through a combination of archival and field research....

September 30, 2004
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

My project concerned how ordinary Central Asians understand the political and economic shifts of the first post-Soviet decade, and in particular how they see the constructive role of Islam in...

September 30, 2004
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

My research investigates the phenomenon of changing religious identities and practices and changing religio-political attitudes among people of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and...

September 30, 2003
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

My research examines sources of state weakness in post-Soviet states and it explores how they contribute to or detract from the use of coercion in state building.

September 30, 2003
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

The purpose of my spring 2002 research centered on archival investigation and informant interviewing.

September 30, 2003
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

I have categorized the expression of historical influences in the work of contemporary Uzbek ceramic masters into three modes: hereditary, archaeological, and post-factory.

September 30, 2003
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

The main goal of this past field season was to investigate two newly discovered caves, Siypantash and Anghilak, in the Kashkadaryia region of Uzbekistan in order to document the presence of...

September 30, 2003
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

I argue that paying attention to cultural objects on the level of form helps us better understand the globalization of culture.