Associate Professor
Contact Information
emcglinc@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-2960
Fairfax Campus, Aquia Building, Room 313
4400 ĢAV Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4
Personal Websites
Biography
Eric McGlinchey is an associate professor of politics and government and director of the undergraduate International Relations Policy Task Force at George Mason ĢAV’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
McGlinchey is the author of Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (2011). Grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the International Research & Exchanges Board, the Social Science Research Council, and the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Defense have funded his research. McGlinchey has published widely in academic journals and the popular press and has contributed to U.S. government studies on China's reception in Central Asia, Political Party Assistance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and Violence and Insurgency in Central Asia.
He received his PhD from Princeton ĢAV
Curriculum Vitae
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Associate Professor of Government
Director, International Relations Policy Task Force
Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason ĢAV
George Mason ĢAV, 341 Research Hall
4400 ĢAV Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
703-993-2960
emcglinc@gmu.edu
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
George Mason ĢAV, Fairfax, VA
Associate Professor of Government and Politics, August 2011-Present. Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, August 2005-August 2011.
Iowa State ĢAV, Ames, IA
Assistant Professor of Political Science, August 2003-July 2005.
Stanford ĢAV, Stanford, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow in Central Asian Studies, August 2002-July 2003.
EDUCATION
Princeton ĢAV, Princeton, New Jersey
Ph.D. in Politics, January 2003.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
B.A. with Honors in Political Science (Phi Beta Kappa, General Honors), 1995.
Yaroslavl’ State ĢAV, Yaroslavl’, Russian Federation
Visiting Student, 1993-1994.
BOOK
2011. Chaos, Violence and Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (ĢAV of Pittsburgh Press).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2020. “GDZԲԳ and order-making in Central Asia: from illiberalism to Dz-?” Central Asian Survey 39:3 (Fall 2020), co-authored with Philipp Lottholz, John Heathershaw, Aksana Ismailbekova, Janyl Moldalieva, and Catherine Owen.
2016. “L Succession, Great Power Ambitions, and the Future of Central Asia, ”Central Asian Affairs 3:3 (July).
2014. “Fast Forwarding the Brezhnev Years: Osh in Flames,” Russian History 41(3). 2012. “Fǰ Policy and Aging Central Asian Autocrats,” Demokratizatsiya 20(3).
2011. “EǰԲ Regime Instability and Ethnic Violence in ٲ,” Asia Policy12 (July). 2009. “Searching for Kamalot: Political Patronage and Youth Politics in 쾱ٲ,” Europe-Asia Studies 61(7): 1137-1150.
2009. Revivalism and State Failure in ٲ,” Problems of Post- Communism 56(3): 16-28.
2007. “A徱Բ the Internet in Central Asia, ”with Erica J. Johnson, Democratization 14(2): 273- 288.
2006. Leaders in 쾱ٲ,” Asia Policy 1(1): 123-144.
2006. “T Making of Militants: The State and Islam in Central ,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 554-566.
2004. “Kyrgyzstan Country Report, ”in Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Governance, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in 30 States (Freedom House): 1-18.
2000. “Contours of Discontent? Demographics and Perceptions of Governance in Kazakhstan and ٲ,” Journal of Central Asian Studies 5(1): 14-30.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND OTHER ACADEMIC ARTICLES
2021. “Contested Property and Local Power in Central ,” in D. Montgomery, ed., Central Asia in Context: A Thematic Introduction to the Region (ĢAV of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming).
2012. “CԳٰ Asia Grows Wobbly,” Current History (October).
2009. “CԳٰ Asian Protest Movements,” in A. Wooden and C. Stefes, eds., The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Routledge).
2007. “CdzپԲ Islams: The Everyday Struggle for Faith in 쾱ٲ,” in J. Sahadeo & R. Zanca, eds., Everyday Life in Central Asia (Indiana ĢAV Press).
2005. “Aܳٴdzٲ, Islamists, and the Rise of Radicalism in Central ,” Current History 104 (October).
2004. “Pܲ Opinion Research in Kazakhstan and ٲ,” in John G. Geer, ed.,
Public Opinion and Polling Around the World (ABC-CLIO).
COMMISSIONED STUDY (PEER-REVIEWED WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT)
2019. “China’s Mixed Reception in Central Asia, ”in Chinese Strategic Intentions: A Deep Dive into China’s Worldwide Activities (Department of Defense Strategic Multilayer Assessment White Paper).
2013. “VDZԳ Extremism and Insurgency in Tajikistan: A Risk Գ,” (USAID- commissioned study).
2013. “VDZԳ Extremism and Insurgency in Kazakhstan: A Risk Գ,” (USAID- commissioned study).
2013. “VDZԳ Extremism and Insurgency in Central Asia: A Risk Գ,” (USAID- commissioned study).
2007. A Study of Political Party Assistance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, co-author (USAID-commissioned study).
OPINION ARTICLES AND POLICY PAPERS
2021. “T populist and nationalist threat to human rights in ٲ,” Foreign Policy Centre (March 2021).
2020. “T limits of ²ԲٴDz’s Staying Power in Central ,” Crossroads Policy Brief No. 3-2020 (June 2020). Russian language Dz:“ПѶеделы Возможностей Вашингтона Сохранять Позиции в Центральной Азии.”
2019. “Questioning Sinophobia in Central Asia, ”PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no. 630, (December).
2019. "Explaining Great Power Status in Central Asia: Unfamiliarity and پDzԳٱԳ,” Minerva Owl in the Olive Tree Post (October), co-authored with Marlene Laruelle.
2019. “Kazakh President Nazarbayev Has Resigned,” Washington Post (20 March 2019).
2018. “T Changing Landscape of Uncivil Society in ٲ,” The Foreign Policy Centre (July).
2018. “ĘU Terrorism’ and the Logical Inconsistencies of Extreme Vetting, ”PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 500 (January)
2017. ԱɾԲ EU and US Soft Power in Central ,” EUCAM Commentary No. 28 (October, with Marlene Laruelle)
2016. “Fǰ Policy Consequences of Homegrown Eurasian پDzԲ,” PONARS Eurasia
Policy Memo No. 418, (February)
2015. “CԳٰ Asia’s Autocrats: Geopolitically Stuck, Politically ,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 380 (August)
2013. “States of Protest in Central ,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 299 (September).
2013. “Eurasia 2014: Into Thin Air,” Central Asia Policy Brief No. 10, Central Asia Program, George Washington ĢAV Elliot School of International Affairs (June)
2010. “Running in Circles in ٲ,” The New York Times (Op-Ed, April 10)
2009. “Three Perspectives on Political Islam in Central ,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 76 (September)
2008. “An Opening in 쾱ٲ,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 14 (August)
2008. “Food, Protest and Political Instability in Central Asia, ”Global Studies Review (Summer)
2008. “Patronage, Islam, and the Rise of Localism in Central Asia, ”PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 2 (March)
2007. “Linking International Development and Political Party Building in Central Asia and the Caucuses,” Global Studies Review (Summer)
2005. “Avoiding the Great Game and Domestic Unrest in Eurasia,” PONARS Policy Memo No. 402, Center for Strategic and International Studies (December)
2005. “Revolutions and Religion in Central Asia, ”PONARS Policy Memo 364 (June)
2005. “Kyrgyz Democracy Gets Second Chance,” Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (April 8)
2003. For Life: Leadership Succession in Post-Soviet Central Asia, ”PONARS Policy Memo 312 (November)
2000. “Powerless in ٲ,” Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (July)
BOOK REVIEWS
2019. , Society, and Politics in Central Asia, ”Pauline Jones, ed., reviewed in Slavic Review, Volume 77, Issue 4 Winter 2018: pp. 1090-1093.
2014. “UԱǴdzٲ Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia, ”by Lwarence Markowitz, reviewed in Central Asian Affairs 1(2): 303-305.
2008. “Russia’s Islamic ճ,” by Gordon M. Hahn, reviewed in Slavic Review, Winter 2008. 2006. “Modern Clan Politics: The Power of ‘Blood’ in Kazakhstan and Beyond,” by Edward
Schatz, reviewed in Middle East Journal 60(4): 805-807.
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS AND BRIEFINGS
2010. “A Region in Crisis – The Violent Conflict in ٲ,” Congressional Hearing, July 1.
2010. “Corruption, Repression, Extremism in Central Asia: Looking Beyond ٲ,” Congressional Briefing (Co-Sponsored: House Foreign Affairs Committee and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty), May 19.
2009. “Approaching the OSCE Chairmanship: Kazakhstan 2010,” Congressional Hearing, May 12.
2008. “Prospects for Change in Turkmenistan,” Congressional Hearing, November 19.
2008. “Uzbekistan: Three Years After Andijan,” Congressional Briefing, May 13.
2006. “Democracy in Tajikistan: Preview of the Presidential Election” Congressional Briefing, October 26.
FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS
2017-2019. U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Initiative, “T Erosion of U.S. Soft Power in Central ,” Principal Investigator (Professor Marlene Laruelle, Co-Principal Investigator).
2015-2017. U.S. Department of State, Embassy to Georgia, “UԾٲ Public Policy Research in Georgia,” Co-Principal Investigator.
2012-Present. U.S. Department of State, Embassy to Georgia “Gʴ-ѲDz Public Administration Partnership,” Co-Principal Investigator.
2010-2013. U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE),Co-Principal Investigator, “A US-Russia Collaboration: Reading Networked Societies.”
2008-2015. Soros / Open Society Institute Fellowship, Central Asian Research and Training Initiative.
2010-2011. National Asia Research Program, National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
2003-2010. National Science Foundation Fellowship, Co-Principal Investigator, “T Effect of the Internet on Society: Incorporating Central Asia into the Global Perspective,” Award #0326101.
2009. Social Science Research Center Fellowship, Principal Investigator, Teaching Islam in Central Asia.
2007-2008. Social Science Research Center Eurasia Teaching Fellowship.
2006-2007. National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Fellowship, Principal Investigator, Islam and Social Mobilization in Central Asia.
2003-2004. Iowa State ĢAV Faculty Development Grant to support research on Political Islam in Central Asia.
2003-2004. Iowa State ĢAV Small Research Grant to support Visiting Research Assistant from the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences.
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2021-Present. Director, Schar School International Relations Policy Task Force 2019-Present. Schar School Curriculum Committee
2021. PhD Comprehensive Exams Comparative Politics Committee Chair 2020. ĢAV Fulbright Committee
2020. Stearns Center Online Course Development Primer, Faculty Co-Lead 2018-2019. PhD Comprehensive Exams Comparative Politics Committee Chair 2016-2019. GMU Fulbright Selection Committee
2016. PhD Comprehensive Exams Comparative Politics Committee Chair 2016. PhD Admissions Committee
2013-2015. Director of Graduate Studies, School of Policy, Government, & International Affairs. 2011-2013. GMU Fulbright Selection Committee
2012. Center for Global Studies Working Groups Grant Selection Committee. 2010-Present. Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies Steering Committee. 2009-2011. Faculty Advisor, GMU Graduate Political Science Society.
2008. Graduate Curriculum Committee.
2008, 2011,2012. PhD Qualifying Exams Committee, Comparative Politics. 2008. Undergraduate Honors Program Admissions Committee.
2007. Graduate Program Executive Committee. 2007. Graduate Program Admissions Committee. 2007. Bio Defense Faculty Search Committee.
2005. Faculty Search Committee (American Foreign Policy).
2010. Faculty Grant Committee, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.
2010. Postdoctoral Scholar Search Committee, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies. 2009-Present. Center for Global Studies Steering Committee.
2009. Global Affairs Faculty Search Committee.
2009. Office of Institutional Assessment Academic Program Review Committee. 2009. Gorbachev 1989 Committee.
2008-Present. Global Affairs Faculty Steering Committee. 2008. Spires of Excellence Committee (Provost Committee).
2008. GMU-Soros Doctoral Fellowship Program, Candidate interviews, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 2007-Present. Eurasia Studies Program Steering Committee.
2007. Global Affairs Director Search Committee.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2019. Selection Committee, Open Society Foundation Civil Society Scholar Awards Program
2015-2018. Member of Executive Committee, PONARS Eurasia.
2014. Selection Committee International Research & Exchanges Board IARO Fellowship.
2012. Selection Committee International Research& Exchanges Board US Embassy Policy Specialist Program.
2010-2012. Elected Member, Board of Directors, Central Eurasia Studies Society.
2010-2012. Member, Eurasia Program Advisory Board, Social Science Research Council.
2010. Selection Committee Member, Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship, Social Science Research Council.
2009. Selection Committee Chair, Diplomacy Fellowship in Science and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2008. Selection Committee Member, Diplomacy Fellowship in Science and Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2008. Selection Committee for Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Central Eurasia Studies Society.
2007. Book Review Editor for Central Eurasian Studies Review.
Editorial Boards: Problems of Post Communism, Central Asian Affairs
Reviewer: American Councils, American Political Science Review, Asia Policy, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Cornell ĢAV Press, Europe– Asia Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Freedom House Freedom in the World & Nations in Transit, Governancel, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Terrorism, Oxford ĢAV Press, Problems of Post- Communism, National Science Foundation, Natinality Papers, Political Science Quarterly, Religion, State and Society, Slavic Review, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ĢAV of Pittsburgh Press, ĢAV of Washington Press, World Politics
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC HONORS
2003. International Research & Exchanges Board Short Term Travel Grant awarded for summer field research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
2001. Social Science Research Center Research Workshop, DzԴھܰԲ Regions, Localities and Histories: Transformations of Central Asian and Caucasian Societies.”
1999-2000. International Research & Exchanges Board Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Fellowship for dissertation research ( Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan).
1998-1999. Princeton Council on Regional Studies fellowship for dissertation field research (Summer 1998, Kyrgyzstan; Uzbek Language Summer 1999).
1998. Mellon Foundation Summer Fellowship for dissertation research and methodology. 1997-1998. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship awarded for Studies in Russian (1997-
1998, Princeton ĢAV; Summer 1997, Nevsky Institute, St. Petersburg).
1996-1997. Princeton Russian Studies Fellow.
1996-2002. Princeton ĢAV Fellowship (Full award, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, 2000-2002). 1995-1996. Thomas J. Watson National Fellowship awarded for independent research (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russian Federation).
INVITED TALKS
2021. US Department of State, “Kٲ: Post-Third 𱹴DZܳپDz,” March30.
2020. US Department of State, “PپDzԲ of the US, China, and Russia: Findings from Kazakh and Kyrgyz Focus Groups,” February 21.
2017. Foreign Service Institute, “American Negotiating Crisis in Central ,” August29, 2017.
2016. Foreign Service Institute, “CԳٰ Asian: Regional Trends,” May 16, Arlington, VA.
2016. Yale ĢAV, “Between Anarchy and the Police State: Geopolitics and International Development in Central Asia, A Roundtable,” January 25, New Haven, CT.
2015. Foreign Service Institute, “CԳٰ Asian Authoritarianism,” April20, Arlington, VA.
2015. George Washington ĢAV, Keynote Speech, Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan Conference, “Using a Wide Lens to Assess the Narrow Risk of Radical Islam in ղᾱ쾱ٲ,” March10, Washington, D.C.
2015. Georgetown ĢAV, 25th Annual Navai’i-Nalle Annual Lecture, “Negotiating Crisis in Central ,” February 26, Washington, D.C.
2014. Foreign Service Institute, “State, Society, and Religion in Central Asia, ”October 15, Arlington, VA.
2014. The Ohio State ĢAV, Keynote Speech for the 2014Midwest Slavic Conference “A Theft So Nice, They Did it Twice: Fleecing Local Populations and Foreign Investors in Central ,” March28, Columbus, OH.
2014. ĢAV of Pittsburgh, “Hands Off! Property Rights and Predatory Central Asian States,” March 22, Pittsburgh, PA.
2013. ĢAV of Wisconsin, “CDz, Violence, Dynasty and Central Asian Society: The Untold Story,” October 3, Madison, WI.
2013. Bowdoin College, and State Sovereignty in Central ,” February 28, Brunswick, ME.
2013. ĢAV of Pittsburgh, Keynote Speech for the 10 Annual REES / GOSECA Graduate Student Conference, “Geopolitical Threats: Perception and Reality in Central ,” February 22, Pittsburgh PA.
2011. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “CDz, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia, ”Book Presentation, Washington DC, November 17.
2011. National Defense ĢAV, “Perspectives on Central Asian Islam,” Washington, DC, November 7.
2011. Wesleyan ĢAV, “Fast Forwarding the Brezhnev Years: Osh in Flames,” Middletown, CT, October 21.
2011. American ĢAV of Central Asia, ternational Challenges to Central Asian Security,” Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 15, 2011.
2011. US State Department, “T Politics of Uzbek Presidential Succession, March 28.
2010. Social Science Research Council, “Does Kyrgyzstan Matter?” Webinar, May 24.
2009. Open Society Institute, “Implications of US Security Policies for Political Reform and Human Rights in the Region,” Washington, D.C., June 24.
2009. ĢAV of Toronto, “Fridays in Andijan: Localized Islam and the Erosion of Centralized Autocracy,” March13.
2008. US State Department, Kazakhstan, “PDZپ Party Formation in Central ,” Astana, Kazakhstan, May 27.
2008. ĢAV of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, “Patronage, Islam and the Fading Central Asian State,” April 24.
2008. ĢAV of Michigan, “T Blurred Borders of State and Islam in Central ,” Ann Arbor, MI, January 9.
2007. American ĢAV of Central Asia, “Evolving Islamic Identities in Central ,” Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, November28.
2007. State Department Briefing on Political Party Assistance in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Washington, D.C., October 9.
2007. Central European ĢAV, “PDZپ Science Approaches to State and Religion in Central ,” Budapest, Hungary, August 14 & 15.
2007. George Washington ĢAV National Security Studies Program, “TԻ in Central Asian ʴDZپ,” Washington, D.C., June 15.
2007. George Washington ĢAV Workshop on Post-Communism, Ԩdzܳٳ Mobilization and the Future of Uzbek ʴDZپ,” Washington, D.C., May 4.
2007. Texas A & M, and Uzbek ʴDZپ,” College Station, TX, April 30.
2007. Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Activists and Soviet Autocrats: Negotiating Myth and Reality in Central ,” Washington, D.C., April 26.
2007. Centre for OSCE Research, ĢAV of Hamburg, “Approaches and Results of USAID Democratization Assistance,” Hamburg, Germany, January 31.
2007. U.S. Commission On International Religious Freedom Briefing and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “State Policy and Islam in ٲ,” Washington D.C., January 11.
2006. International Institute for Strategic Studies, “New Partner or New Problem: US Views toward the Shanghai Cooperation Organization,” London, January 27.
2006. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “After Andijan: Authoritarianism, Islam, and Social Mobilization in Central ,” Washington, D.C., January 17.
2005. IREX State Department Briefing on Kyrgyz Presidential Elections, Washington, D.C., July 26.
2005. Center for Strategic and International Studies Congressional Briefing on Central Asia, Washington, D.C., June 14.
2004. Yale ĢAV, “Constructing Militant Opposition: Authoritarian Rule and Political Islam in Central ,” Central Asia and the Caucasus in a Globalized World Lecture Series, April 6.
2004. Northwestern ĢAV, “Aܳٳǰٲ Rule and Militant Islam in Central ,” Comparative Politics Lecture Series, April 19.
2002. Stanford ĢAV, “CԳٰ Asia: Democracy ٱ,” Stanford ĢAV Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 19.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2020. “T Limits of ²ԲٴDz’s Staying Power in Central ,” Hollings Center for International Dialogue Conference, “Thirty Years of Central Asia’s International Relations: Taking Stock and Looking Forward,” American ĢAV of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, March 4.
2019. “CԳٰ Asia in DzԳٱ,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Washington, October 10, 2019.
2019. “G Power Influence in Central ,” Minerva Meeting and Program Review, Washington, September 18.
2019. “Questioning Sinophobia in Central Asia, ”PONARS Eurasia / CSIS, Washington, September 12.
2019. “Between participation, patronage and coercion: Exploring varieties of governance and order-making in Central Eurasia,” 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, ĢAV of Exeter, June 29.
2019. “PDZٲ in the Central Asian DzԳٱ,” 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, ĢAV of Exeter, June 27.
2018. “G Power Connections in Central ,” STIX: Science, Technology, and Innovation Exchange, Basic Research Office of the Department of Defense, US Institute for Peace, December 11.
2018. “U Soft Power: The View from ٲ,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, ĢAV of Pittsburgh, October 25.
2018. “T Erosion of U.S. Soft Power in ٲ,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, May 5.
2018. “ĘCԳٰ Asian Terrorism’ and the Limits of Extreme Vetting,” Central Asian Security Workshop, George Washington ĢAV, Washington, D.C., March 20.
2018. “Presidential Transitions and the Implications for US Soft Power in Central ,” Central Asian Security Workshop, George Washington ĢAV, Washington, D.C., March 6.
2017. “U.S. Soft Power in Central ,” PONARS Eurasia, Washington, D.C., September 16. 2015.“Violence in Kazakhstan and ղᾱ쾱ٲ,” Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, April 24.
2015. , Secularism and Security in ٲ,” British Council Bridging Voices Workshop, George Washington ĢAV, Washington, D.C. April 20.
2014. ٳٰٱ for Circumventing Authoritarian DzԳٰDZ,” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C, August 29.
2014. ٱٳٱԲ Scores in Central Asia, ”Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, April 25.
2013. “T State of Social Mobilization in Central Asia, ”Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Madison, WI, October 4.
2012. “CDz, Violence and Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central ,” Book Panel, Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, NY, April 20.
2012. “T Timid Autocratic: Domestic Might and International Stage Fright in Central Asian Foreign ʴDZ,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 15.
2011. “GDZԲԳ in Central Asia’s Stateless ձٴǰ,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2.
2010. “PDZپ Discontent in Asia—Kyrgyz Chaos,” National Bureau of Asian Research and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Asia Policy Assembly, Washington DC, June 17.
2010. Foreign Service Institute, US State Department, “TԴDZDz, Internet and Communication Tools in Central ,” Arlington, VA, March 1.
2009. Foreign Service Institute, US State Department, “CԳٰ Asia and Challenges Facing Democracy Assistance,” Arlington, VA, October 21.
2009. “TԲپDzԲ 2.0: The Internet, Political Culture and Autocracy in Central ,” American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 5.
2008. “Aܳٴdzپ Implosion: Patronage, Islam and the Rise of Localism in Central ,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 22.
2008. “T State of Discourse or the State’s Discourse on Islam in Central Asia?” Princeton ĢAV Conference on Re-Thinking Sectarianism, Princeton, NJ, May 21.
2007. “FdzܲԻ岹پDzԲ of Kyrgyzstan's Islamic Renaissance,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 17.
2007. “MԲ Shades of Green: Variations in Islam-Centered Mobilization in ٲ’s New Color 𱹴DZܳپDz,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 31.
2007. “A徱Բ Political Parties in Central Asia and the 䲹ܳܲ,” International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, March 1.
2006. Brookings-UNDP Conference on “T Challenges and Opportunities of Regional Cooperation and Integration in Central Asia," Washington, D.C., March 27.
2006. Ԩdzܳٳ and Uzbek ʴDZپ,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, November 18.
2005. “Fǰ Aid and ICT Policy in Central ,”(Erica Johnson, co-author), American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1.
2005. ԴڴǰپDz Communication Technology (ICT) and Its Effect on Political Mobilization in Central Asia, ”US Department of State Conference, Ԩdzܳٳ in Transition: Eurasia and Central/East Europe,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., August 15.
2005. Leaders in 쾱ٲ,” Social Science Research Council Summer Institute, “Teaching Islam in Eurasia,” Kazan, Russia, June 20-July 3.
2005. “T Patterns of Structural Corruption in Central ,” Northwestern ĢAV, Center for International and Comparative Studies Conference on “Identifying Self-Repairing Dynamics in Post-Conflict Societies: The Caucasus and Central ,” February 3-5.
2005. ྱٲ Divide in Central Asia: Comparing ISP ʴDZ,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10.
2004. “CԳٰ Asian Protest Movements: Domestic Forces and International Resources,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, December.
2004. “W States, Impoverished Societies and Rich Rulers: The Making of Authoritarian Rule in Eastern Europe and Central ,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, September.
2004. “Divided Faith: Tensions Between State and Islam in Central ,” Center for Strategic and International Studies Academic Conference, Seattle, Washington, May.
2004. “T Making of Militants: State and Islam in Central ,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.
2003. For Life: Leadership Succession in Post-Soviet Central Asia, ”Center for Strategic and International Studies Policy Conference, Washington, DC, December.
2003. “Adzǻ岹پDz or Repression: State Responses to Political Islam in Central ,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, November.
2003. “TǰԳ or Transformation? The Future of Opposition Movements in Central ,” Central Eurasian Studies Society, Cambridge, MA, October.
2003. “CԳٰ Asia: Authoritarian Solutions Follow Democratic ԲپٳܳپDzԲ,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.
2002. “CdzԳ Today, Gone Tomorrow? Comparing Kyrgyz and Kazakh Political Change,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, November.
2001. “PDZپ Order in Central Asian dzپ,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November.
2001. “C貹ٲ or Collapse? Nation Building in Kyrgyzstan and ٲ,” Association for the Study of the Nationalities, Columbia ĢAV, April.
1999. “Kٲ: A Case of State Decentralization in Post-Soviet Central ,” Sixth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana ĢAV, March.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Comparative Politics Research Methods Central Asian Politics International Relations
Areas of Research
- Central Asia
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Foreign Policy
- International Development
- International Migration
- International Relations
- Political Violence
- Qualitative Methods