CAIS HDR students taking part in a symposium on Central Asia in December 2018

Recent graduates

Dr Dirk Van Der Kley: 'An Organisational Approach to the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan'

Dr Shuhrat Baratov - Hero-making as ontological security practice: Tajikistan's identity politics and relations with Uzbekistan

Dr Aminat Chokobaeva - The role of the 1916 'Great Revolt' of Central Asia in shaping national identity in Soviet and post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

Dr Brenton Clark - Tajik-Iranian relations

Dr Nematullah Bizhan - Afghanistan: Foreign aid and state-building (2001-2009)

Dr Christian Bleuer -  The fault lines of violent conflict in Tajikistan

Dr Grigol Ubiria -  From Tribes to Modern Nations: Soviet Nation-Building in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Current research scholars

Dana Rice - Belt and Road Initiative, the Eurasian Economic Union and Sinophobia in Central Asia. 

Marcus James - Russian migrants to Australia via Iran

Beth Harris - Western travel writing on Central Asia

Paulina Pijacka - Stability, security and political developments in Central Asia: perspectives from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan

Azima Akhmatova -  International Relations and Geopolitics of Central Asia

Berikbol Dukeyev - Security issues in Central Asia, postcolonial theory application in Central Asia and Kazakhstan nation building

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva -   Internationalisation of tertiary education, higher education management Uzbekistan’s higher education policy, nation-building through higher education.