Affiliated Faculty, Researchers, and Professional Staff
The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center is proud of its faculty and associates, whose diverse set of research interests stretch from Central Europe to the far corners of East Asia. This information page lists individuals affliated with the Center. Where possible, clicking on the individual's name links to their department or personal webpage. A summary of biographical information including educational background, research interests, and contact information is also provided.
[College of Arts & Sciences] [Professional Schools]
[Independent Scholars & Project Associates]
K. Anne Pyburn
Professor of Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Director of the Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest. PhD, University of Arizona, 1988. Research interests include pre-historic systems of human organization.
apyburn@indiana.eduM. Nazif Shahrani
Professor of Central Eurasian Studies; Chair, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. PhD, University of Washington, 1976. Research interests include Islam and politics in Muslim societies of the Middle East and former Soviet Central Asia.
shahrani@indiana.edu
Department of Applied Linguistics/TESOL
Bill Johnston
Associate Professor. Director of Polish Studies Center, PhD University of Hawaii, 1995. Research interests include translations of modern Polish literature.
billj@indiana.edu
Center for the Study of Global Change
David E. Albright
Senior Fellow. MA, Indiana University, 1994. Research interests include international security.
daalbrig@indiana.edu
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Christopher Atwood
Associate Professor; Chair, Department of Central Eurasian Studies. PhD, Indiana University, 1994. Research interests include Mongolian history; Sino-Soviet relations and Mongolia.
catwood@indiana.eduIlhan Basgöz
Professor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of Folklore. Ph.D, University of Ankara, 1949. Research interests include oral literature, epics, romances; Asia, Near East, and Turkey.Zaure Batayeva
Associate Instructor. MA, Almaty State University, 1995. Research interests include Kazkah folklore, compositional styles in fiction.
zbatayev@indiana.eduGustav Bayerle
Professor Emeritus. Ph.D, Columbia University, 1966. Research interests include sixteenth and seventeenth century Ottoman history, Hungarian history, and Ottoman philology.
bayerle@indiana.eduChristopher I. Beckwith
Professor. Ph.D, Indiana University, 1977. Research interests include the ethnolinguistic history of Central and Eastern Eurasia, historical linguistics, typological linguistics, computational linguistics, and theoretical phonology.
beckwith@indiana.eduGardner Bovingdon
Assistant Professor; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science; Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures. Ph.D, Cornell University, 2002. Research interests include politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; and nationalism and ethnic conflict.
bovingdon@indiana.eduYuri Bregel
Professor Emeritus. Ph.D, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Research interests include the history of Islamic Central Asia.
bregel@indiana.eduJamsheed Choksy
Professor; Professor of History; Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies. Ph.D, Harvard, 1991. Research interests include the religions of Central Asia, the Near East, and South Asia, with a special focus on Iranian studies.
jchoksy@indiana.eduHakki Erdem Çıpa
Assistant Professor. Ph.D, Harvard, 2007. Research interests include the history and historiography of the Ottoman Empire; dissident movements, rebellions, succession struggles; socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Empire; feudalism; agrarian societies of the late middle ages and the early modern era.
ecipa@indiana.eduShahyar Daneshgar
Senior Lecturer; Director, Silk Road Ensemble. Ph.D, Indiana University, 1995. Research interests include languages and cultures of Central Eurasia and the Middle East; Iranian and Turkic linguistic and cultural contacts; ethnomusicology and the musical practices of the peoples of the Central Eurasia and the Middle East.
sdaneshg@indiana.eduDevin DeWeese
Professor. PhD, Indiana University, 1985. Research interests include Islamic Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, religions and Inner Asia, and Islamic hagiography.
deweese@indiana.eduWilliam Fierman
Professor, PhD, Harvard University, 1979. Research interests include politics of Central Asia, especially policies affecting language, Islam, and state identities.
wfierman@indiana.eduÁgnes Fülemile
Visiting György Ránki Professor; Hungarian Chair. PhD, Eötvös Loránd University, 1997. Research interests include folklore, historical ethnography, anthropology and history of dress.
fulemila@indiana.eduMalik Hodjaev
John D. Soper Lecturer. BA Samarkand State Pedagogical Institute, 1972; Cert. Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, 1980. Languages include Uzbek, Tajik, Russian and English.
mhodjaev@indiana.eduLynn Hooker
Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Chicago. Research interests include Modernism Meets Nationalism: Bela Bartok and the Musical Life of pre-World War I Budapest.
lhooker@indiana.eduGyörgy Kara
Professor. PhD, ELTE University of Budapest, 1961; Doctor of Philology, Leningrad, 1975. Research interests include Mongol and Inner Asian studies, languages and cultures including Old Uygur, Tibetan, Manchu, Evenki, Khitan and Altaic philology.
gkara@indiana.eduPiibi-Kai Kivik
Associate Instructor, MA, Tartu University (Estonia), 1997, English Language; M.Phil., Cambridge University (UK), 1997, English and Applied Linguistics.
pkivik@indiana.eduEdward Lazzerini
Professor; Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; Adjunct Professor of History. Ph.D, University of Washington, 1973. Research interests include intellectual patterns and practices in the Volga-Ural region prior to 1931; commentary traditions and modernity; Crimea under Russian rule; and comparative empires (Russian, Chinese, and Ottoman).
elazzeri@indiana.eduPaul Losensky
Associate Professor; Associate Professor Comparative Literature; Adjunct Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1993. Research interests include Persian literature and literary history, in particular the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries in Iran, India, and Central Asia; literature, architecture, and topography; Sufism and literature; comparative studies in the Baroque; translation and translation studies.
plosensk@indiana.eduFatima Moldashova
Kazakh Language Instructor. Degree, West Kazakhstan Law Institute.
fmoldash@indiana.eduLarry Moses
Associate Professor Emeritus. Ph.D, Indiana University, 1972. Research interests include Mongol history.
moses@indiana.eduGulnisa Nazarova
Visiting Lecturer. Postgraduate Degree, Institute of Uyghurology, Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan, 1992. Research interests include Uyghur language, Comparative lexicology of Turkic languages, Problems of Etymology, Ethnography, Methods of Teaching.
gnazarov@indiana.eduPia-Maria Paivio
Finnish Language Lecturer. Ph.D., University of Turku, 2007.
ppaivio@indiana.eduGedun Rabsal
Lecturer. Pharchin Rabjam, Gaden Jangtse College, India, 1992. Research interests include the application of modern pedagological theory towards the teaching of Tibetan.
grabsal@indiana.eduToivo Raun
Professor; Adjunct Professor of History. PhD, Princeton University, 1969. Research interests include Baltic and Finnish history.
raunt@indiana.eduRon Sela
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004. Research interests include the history and historiography of Islamic Central Asia in the 16th-19th centuries; political and cultural self-representation in Central Asian sources, and Central Asia’s role in the history of the Islamic world.
rsela@indiana.eduKemal Silay
Professor; Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies. Ph.D, Indiana University, 1993. Research interests include Ottoman philology, Ottoman court poetry, feminisms in Turkey and the Middle East, Turkish popular culture, Turkish oral literature, postmodernism, and social informatics.
ksilay@indiana.eduDenis Sinor
Distinguished Professor Emeritus; Professor Emeritus of History. Research interests include medieval history of Central Eurasia; early Hungarian history; and comparative Uralic and Altaic Linguistics.
sinord@indiana.eduElliot Sperling
Associate Professor. Ph.D, Indiana University, 1983. Research interests include Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations.
sperlin@indiana.eduMihály Szegedy-Maszák
Professor; Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature. PhD, Eötvös Loránd University, 1967. Research interests include Hungarian cultural studies, comparative literature, Interacts studies, narratology, structuralism and translation, romanticism, nationalism, modernism and postmodernism.
szegedym@indiana.eduValeria Varga
Visiting Lecturer, MA in Hungarian, Russian, and English, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Research Interests include teaching Hungarian as a foreign language; teaching English language, methodology; and English-Hungarian bilingual education.
vvarga@indiana.edu
Michael Alexeev
Associate Professor. PhD, Duke University, 1984. Research interests include Soviet-type economies in transition.
malexeev@indiana.eduMichael Kaganovich
Associate Professor, PhD, Moscow State University, 1985. Research interests include models of economic transition.
mkaganov@indiana.eduMartin Spechler
Professor of Economics, PhD, Harvard University, 1971. Research interests include Soviet-type economies, economies in transition, and comparative economics.
mspechle@iupui.edu
Henry Glassie
Professor Emeritus; Co-Director of Turkish Studies. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969. Research interests include Folk art and material culture; historical approaches; the United States, Ireland, Turkey, and Bangladesh.
glassieh@indiana.edu
Roman Zlotin
Professor. PhD, Academy of Sciences (Moscow), 1970. Research interests include Soviet and Russian geography and the environment.
zlotin@indiana.edu
Maria Bucur-Deckard
Associate Professor. PhD, University of Illinois, 1997. Research interests include East European and Romanian history; gender studies.
mbucur@indiana.eduBen Eklof
Professor; Adjunct Professor, School of Education. PhD, Princeton University, 1977. Research interest include History of Russian and Soviet education.
eklof@indiana.eduMatthias Lehmann
Assistant Professor, PhD, Freie Universitat Berlin, 2002. Research interest include Ottoman History and Sephardic Studies.
mlehmann@indiana.edu
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Çiğdem Balım Harding
Senior Lecturer; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Director of Language Instruction, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. PhD, University of Washington, 1978. Research interests include descriptive grammars of the Turkic languages of the world; language planning and language policies in Europe, Balkans, Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
cbalim@indiana.edu
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
Kasia Rydel-Johnston
Assistant Director. MA, Jagiellonian University, 1982. Research interests include second language acquisition.
krydeljo@indiana.eduBeatrix Burghardt
Language Coordinator. MA, MS, Attila József University, 1994. Research interests include second language acquisition.
bburhgar@indiana.edu
Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region
Nigora Azimova
Uzbek Language Materials Developer. MA, Indiana University, 2006. Research interests include applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, classroom discourse and teacher education.
nhazimov@indiana.edu
Department of Political Science
Jack Bielasiak
Professor, PhD, Cornell University, 1975. Research interests include post-Communist and East European politics.
bielasiav@indiana.edu
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dodona Kiziria
Associate Professor. PhD, Yale University, 1979. Russian and East European film studies, Russian literature, Georgian language.
kiziria@iupui.edu
Department of Telecommunications
Herb Terry
Associate Professor, PhD University of Minnesota, 1976. Fulbright in Russia, 1998/9.
terry@indiana.edu
Marjorie A. Lyles
Professor. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1977. Research interests include international strategy, joint ventures and alliances, organizational learning and cooperative alliances, and performance of foreign direct investment projects.
mlyles@iupui.eduPaul Marer
Professor Emeritus. PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Research interests include Eastern and Central Europe.
Martha Nyikos
Associate Professor; Director, Foreign Language & ESL Education Program. PhD, Purdue University, 1987. Research interests include sociocultural approaches to strategies-based language learning, models for professional teacher development and teacher resistance to change, and family language maintenance in the diaspora.
nyikos@indiana.eduMargaret Sutton
Associate Professor; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Gender Studies. PhD, Stanford University, 1991. Research interests include democratization and civic education, gender and education, and policy as practice.
msutton@indiana.edu
Owen V. Johnson
Associate Professor. PhD, History, University of Michigan, 1978. Research interests include the history of mass media in East-Central Europe.
johnsono@indiana.eduChristine Ogan
Professor Emerita. PhD, University of North Carolina, 1976. Research interests include communication technologies and international communication.
ogan@indiana.edu
Joseph Hoffmann
Harry Pratter Professor of Law; Director of International Programs. JD, University of Washington, 1984. Research interests include the death penalty, habeas corpus, and federal criminal law.
hoffma@indiana.eduDavid Williams
Professor. JD, Harvard University, 1985. Research interests include constitutional law, Native American governance, and the second amendment.
dacwilli@indiana.edu
School of Library and Information Science
Mark Taylor Day
Librarian. MA, Indiana University, 1982. Research interests include the critical historical, rhetorical, and social scientific study of management rhetoric in relationship to the social organization of knowledge work in academic libraries.
daym@indiana.edu
Mary Goetze
Professor; Chair of the General Studies Department. PhD, University of Colorado, 1985. Research interests include Central Eurasian folk music, history and culture.
goetze@indiana.edu
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Matthew R. Auer
Associate Professor; Dean, Hutton Honors College. PhD, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1995. Research interests include environmental policy and management problems with an international focus: international environmental assistance, comparative industrial environmental policy, international policies governing forests and forestry.
mauer@indiana.eduRandall Baker
Professor. PhD, London University, 1968. Research interests include comparative study on different perspectives regarding the way problems are perceived and handled, historical perspectives in the analysis of contemporary environmental and policy problems.
bakerr@indiana.eduVicky Meretsky
Associate Professor. PhD, University of Arizona, 1995. Research interests include ecology and management of rare species, biocomplexity, and landscape-level species and community conservation.
meretsky@indiana.eduJohn L. Mikesell
Professor; Managing Director, Professional Graduate Program Office; Director, Master of Public Affairs Program. PhD, University of Illinois (Urbana), 1969. Research interests include US state and local government finance, and budgeting.
mikesell@indiana.edu
Independent Scholars and Project Associates
Chris Foley
Senior Associate, Office of Admissions. MFA, Indiana University, 1997. Research interests include International Education, Enrollment, Management, and Kyrgyz Education.
cfoley@indiana.eduRuth Meserve
Independent Scholar. PhD, Indiana University, 1987. Research interests include Mongolian livestock breeding, traditional Mongolian medicine, traditional nomadic culture.
meserver@indiana.eduSuzan Özel
Independent Scholar.
soezel@indiana.edu