CCIA - Current Research

RESEARCH SUPPORTED BY CCIA GRANTS

(Alphabetical order)


In 2004
Dr F Abdullaeva	University of Cambridge	Catalogue of Persian/Central Asian manuscripts in St Petersburg
Mr A. Baki	University of Durham	Language attitudes and ethnicity of Uyghur students in Xinjiang
Mr P Bergne	St Anthony's College, Oxford	International conference on Turkmenistan
Mr C Boucek	SOAS	Israeli strategic policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Mr L Broz	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge	The politics of explanation and its ontological implications: invisible cause of visible disasters in the Altai Republic
Dr J Coolidge	Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	Early agriculture and Sedentism in Central Asia: the development of the Neolithic in s. Turkmenistan
Dr S. D'Cruze Dr H. Jones	Manchester Metropolitan University	Women, Crime and Social Change in the Republic of Mongolia since 1990
Mr J Heathershaw	LSE	Peacebuilding in Tajikistan: civil society and state
Prof. G Herrmann	UCL	BA conference 'After Anexander - Central Asia before Islam'
Dr A Hürelbaatar	MIASU, University of Cambridge	Invention and Innovation at the Chinggis Khan Temple in Inner Mongolia under Imperial Japan and Communist China
Prof Hugh Kennedy	University of St Andrews	The Historical Geography of Central Asia ancient and medieval texts
Mr S Kirmse	SOAS	Resurgance of Islam in Post Soviet Central Asia challenging the resumption of inevitable radicalism
Dr A Kuznetsov	Manchester Metropolitan University	The effectiveness of Business Knowledge transfer in Kyrgyzstan and belarus: the role of local educators
Dr G Lane	SOAS	Cultural, economic and political impact of Yuan/Ilkhanate Axis on Turkestan in 13/14th centuries
Prof J Mayall	International Relations, University of Cambridge	Current Geopolitics in Central Asia: behavioural approach
Dr N Megoran	Department of Geography, University of Cambridge	St Halford Mackinder's 'Heartland' A help or hindrance?
Mr W Ostrowski	University of St Andrews	Comparing state-oil business relationships in post Soviet Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
Mrs U Sims-Williams	British Museum	Funding for conference 'The Kingdom of Khotan to AD 1000: A Meeting of successful cultures
Ms V Skvirskaja	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge	Cosmopolitanism and the City: Discourses of Diversity and Practices of Coexistence in Bukhara
Dr K Swancutt	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge	Three competing states of mind in Mongolian Shamanism: Prediction Healing and Trance
Mr David Thomas	McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge	Geo-archaeological and Remote Sensing Research in Jam, Afghanistan
Ms Stina Torjesen	University of Oxford	Webpage and database of Central Asia academics & US and European security engagement in Central Asia 1991–2003
Dr C Upton	Department of Geography, University of Cambridge	Development and Devolution: the politics of 'community' in post-socialist Mongolia
Dr P Vitebsky	Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge	Reindeer domestication in NW Mongolia and S Siberia: A critical review and field test
Mr A W Wheeler	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge	Sovereignty Inside Out: state territoriality and mobility among the Dukha reindeer herders of Mongolia


IN 2003
Mr M. Bhatia	University of Oxford	Mobilizing the Combatant: Individual motivation, media narratives and prolonged conflict in Afghanistan .
Dr D.Clarke	University of Southampton	GeoArchaeological investigation on land use and irrigation in historical times in Kazakhstan. .
Mr G. Da Col	University of Cambridge	Metonymy of a sacred mountain: studying sacred networks and social imagination in Inner Asia through the case of Kawa Karpo. .
Dr H. Diemberger	University of Cambridge	Study of leadership and ethnicity in the Qinghai area of western China. .
Miss R. Empson	University of Cambridge	Politics and prophecy: An anthropolocial study in Mongolia. .
Mr M. Fumagalli	University of Edinburgh	Territoriality, group identity, and political mobilization:the Uzbeks in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and the construction of a "Diaspora discourse". .
Dr G. Herrmann	University College London	Prepare for publication the Hellenistic - Early Islamic excavations of walls of Merv Gyaur Kala. .
Dr A. Hintze	SOAS, University of London	Cataloguing the photographic collection of Central Asian manuscripts at the Ancient India and Iran Trust. .
Dr D. Kandiyoti	SOAS, University of London	Post - Soviet transformations of ritual life in Tashkent Mahallas: The role of gender and generation. .
Mr J. Mair	University of Cambridge	Ethnographic study of contemporary Mongolian Buddhism in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, north western China. .
Dr L. Newby	University of Oxford	The Tea trade between the Empire and the border regions of Xinjiang, Mongolia, and Tibet during the mid-late Qing. .
Ms M. Reeves	University of Cambridge	Border making and the transformation of social identities in southern Kyrgyzstan. .
Dr L. Russell - Smith	Independent researcher	Uygur patronage in Dunhuang: a comparative study of art in tenth - eleventh century Turfan and Dunhuang. .
Prof. N. Sims - Williams	SOAS, University of London	Study of Bactrian inscriptions in Kabul .
Mr D. Stevens	SOAS, University of London	"Synergy between 'traditional' and 'modern' forms of civil society ? Mahallas and NGO's in Uzbekistan" .
Dr R. Sultanova	Goldsmiths College , University of London	Ethnomusicological fieldwork in Kabul and Northern Afghanistan to assess the situation of Uzbek music in Afghanistan. .
Miss N. Suvorova	University of Edinburgh	identity formation in the context of post - Soviet Kazakhstan: the case of ethnic Kazakhs and Russians. .
Miss S. Torjesen	University of Oxford	Establish a web page in Russian and English to promote Central Asian scholars .
Mr E. Waite	University of Cambridge	Islam amongst the Uyghurs of Xinjiang Province, China .

IN 2002
Dr J.Baily	Goldsmiths College , University of London	Ethnomusicological fieldwork in Kabul to assess the situation of music in the post Taliban era.
Dr K. Bhaumik	Independent film historian	History of the reception of Bombay cinema in Uzbekistan .
Dr S.J. Bunn	University of Manchester	Comparative study of Kyrgyz traditional belief and their relevance for civil society.
Prof. W.E. Butler	University College London	Translation of A Saidov's work on comparative law.
Dr J. Falkingham	University of Southampton	The dynamics of child poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic .
Dr M Fumagalli	University of Edinburgh	New borders and shifting identities. The construction of border identities in Central Asia.
Dr M. Ghose Dr L. Russell-Smith Dr B. Wagmar	SOAS, University of London	Publication subvention: Nisa to Niya: New discoveries & Studies in Central & Inner Asian Art and Archaeology.
Dr R. Harris	SOAS, University of London	Music of the Uyghur diaspora in Kazakhstan .
Prof. E. Karsh Dr E. Akerman Dr R. Abazov	King's College, University of London	Adjusting to economic transition: Constrains, expectations and preferences among economic migrants in Central Asia.
Prof. S.L. O'Hara Prof. M. Heffernan Dr G. Endfield	University of Nottingham	British attitudes to and perceptions of Central Asia during the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.
Prof. T. Rehren Dr A. Anarbaev Dr O. Papachritou	University College London	Technical development of glazed ceramics in Eastern Uzbekistan.
Dr T. Williams	University College London	Photographic survey of the Islamic city of Sultan Kala , in the Merv Oasis, Turkmenistan.