Current Students: Graduates: Department of Central Eurasian Studies

Indiana University Bloomington

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Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)		Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (SRIFIAS)		Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)		Summer Language Workshop (SWSEEL)

Current Graduate Students :: Graduates

Students are listed upon request and updated each May. Actual enrollment for Fall 2009 is 54 M.A. and 25 Ph.D students.

Doctoral Students

Student Name Email	Region of Specialization	Language of Specialization	Committee Chair	Honors and Awards
Elise Anderson andersem@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uyghur	Gardner Bovingdon	View here
Christopher Baker bakerca@indianaledu	Central Asia	Kazakh	William Fierman	View here
Daniel Beben dbeben@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Persian	Devin DeWeese	View here
Aziz Burkhanov aziburkh@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Kazakh	William Fierman	View here
Matthew Caples macaples@indiana.edu	Hungarian	Hungarian	Toivo Raun Mihály Szegedy-Maszák	View here
Robert William Dunbar rodunbar@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uzbek	Ron Sela	View here
Timothy Grose tigrose@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uyghur	Gardner Bovingdon	View here
Michael Hancock-Parmer miflhanc@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Kazakh	Ron Sela	View here
Niko Kontovas nikontov@indiana.edu	Iranized Turkistan	Turkish	Christopher Beckwith	View here
Kwang Tae Lee leekwa@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uzbek	Ron Sela	View here
Piper O'Sullivan peosulli@indiana.edu	Iranian	Pashto	Nazif Shahrani	View here
Blake Puckett bkpucket@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Russian	William Fierman	View here
Kristoffer Rees kmrees@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Kazakh	William Fierman	View here
Andrew Shimunek ashimune@indiana.edu	Mongolia	Mongolian	György Kara	View here
Wei-chieh Tsai weictsai@indiana.edu	Mongolia	Mongolian	Chris Atwood	View here
Tenzin Tsepak ttsepak@indiana.edu	Tibetan	Tibetan	Elliot Sperling	View here
Nicholas Walmsley nwalmsle@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uzbek	Ron Sela	View here
Eveline Yang esyang@indiana.edu	Tibetan	Tibetan	Elliot Sperling	View here
Jonathan North Washington Search here	Central Asia	Kazakh	Christopher Beckwith	View here

MA Students

Student Name Email	Region of Specialization	Language of Specialization	Advisor	Honors and Awards
Cody Behles cbehles@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uzbek	Edward Lazzerini
Zeynep Elbasan-Bozdogan zelbasan@indiana.edu	Turkish	Persian	Kemal Silay
Sara Marie Conrad conradsm@indiana.edu	Tibet	Tibetan	Elliot Sperling	2012-2013 Tibetan FLAS, 2012 Summer Tibetan FLAS 2011 Summer Tibetan FLAS
Alissa Davis davisali@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uyghur	William Fierman	2012-13 Uyghur FLAS, 2011 Russian Critical Language Scholarship, 2009 Russian Critical Language Scholarship
Solaiman Fazel sfazel@indiana.edu	Iranian	Persian	Nazif Shahrani
Jacob Hunter hunter8@indiana.edu	Iran	Persian	Jamsheed Choksy
Luke Menzies lmenzies@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Persian	Devin DeWeese	2006-2007 Central Eurasian Studies Department Recruitment Fellowship
Mark Moll mdmoll@indiana.edu	Baltic and Finnish	Estonian	Toivo Raun	2011-2012 Estonian FLAS
Elliott Newton ellnewto@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Dari	William Fierman	2012-2013 Uzbek FLAS, 2012 Uzbek Summer Title VIII grant, 2011 Dari Summer Title VIII grant
Joshua Rand-Castillo jrandcas@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uyghur	Gardner Bovingdon	2010 NSEP David L. Boren Scholarship (Mandarin Chinese)
Daniel Robbins dasrobbi@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Uyghur	Gardner Bovingdon	2012 Summer Uyghur FLAS, 2011 Summer Uyghur FLAS
Isaac Scarborough iscarbor@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Kazakh	William Fierman	2010-2011 Fulbright Student Research Fellowships
Hosung Shim shimho@indiana.edu	Mongolia	Mongolian	Chris Atwood	2011-2012 CEUS Recruitment Fellowship
Sean Singer sesinger@indiana.edu	Turkey	Turkish	Kemal Silay	2011 Turkish Summer FLAS, 2011-2012 Turkish AY FLAS, 2012 Farsi Summer FLAS
David Straub dstraub@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Tajik	Edward Lazzerini	Summer 2008 FLAS Fellowship, Center for the Study of Global Change
Jessie Wallner jwallner@indiana.edu	Tibet	Tibetan	Elliot Sperling	2008-2009: FLAS Fellowship, 2007-2008 Graduate Assistant, Sound and Video Analysis & Instruction Laboratory 2005-2007 Graduate Assistant, Archives of Traditional Music, 2004-2005 IIE Fulbright Grant
Miriam J. Woods woodsmj@indiana.edu	Central Asia	Persian	Ron Sela	Summer 2012 Title VIII for Third-Year Tajiki at Arizona State University's Critical Languages Institute, 2011-2012 Uyghur FLAS, 2011 Persian Critical Language Scholarship, 2009 Title VIII for Pashto