Visiting Scholars
Amandurdy Amandurdyev
Dr. Amandurdyev is developing Turkmen pedagogical materials at CeLCAR. He originally came to IU in 1994 as a visiting scholar through IREX. Since 2007, he has taught Turkmen at SWSEEL. Dr. Amandurdyev has worked in Turkmen public schools and with the Economic Cooperation Organization. He and his family reside in Canada.
Shahin Bayramov
Mr. Bayramov is a PhD student and Lecturer at the Azerbaijan State Economic University, who is visiting Bloomington on a Junior Faculty Development Program through the IAUNRC. He is conducting research on the European Unions European Neighborhood Policy and Azerbaijan.
Cholpon Bekbalaeva
Dr. Bekbalaeva is visiting Bloomington through the Fulbright program. She comes from the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She will be researching methodologies of developing critical thinking skills in students in higher education.
Zakir Chotaev
Dr. Chotaev is visiting the IAUNRC from Kyrgyzstan through the Open Society Institute. This is his second residency at IU. Dr. Chotaev graduated from Ankara University, where he wrote his dissertation on international law and the use of violence as a method of control in Central Asia. Currently, he is researching US foreign policy in Central Asia.
László Diószegi
Dr. Diószegi is one of the most highly-acclaimed choreographers and folk dance pedagogues of Hungary. Dr. Diószegi has received a fellowship grant from the Hungarian-American Enterprise Scholarship Fund to co-teach a CEUS class on Hungarian Folk Dance with György Ránki Hungarian Chair Visiting Professor Ágnes Fülemile.
Delgerjargal Purevsuren
Dr. Purevsuren is visiting CEUS through the Open Society Institutes (OSI) Central Asia Research and Training Initiative (CARTI). His topic of research is Early Inner Asian Nomads in Chinese Sources: Perception and Images. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Mongolia, where he received his PhD in History in 2005.
Lobsang Tenzin
Dr. Tenzin is the Dean of Tibetan Medical Sciences of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sarnath, Varanasi, India. He comes to CEUS under the IU-Amnye Machen Institute exchange. As a CEUS Visiting Lecturer, he will teach two classes this spring, focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and indigenous religion, and two more classes in the fall.