People > Center Associates

Expertise / Anthropology of the former Soviet Union, especially of Islamic peoples and of Central Asia and the Caucasus, including such themes as identity change in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, religion - especially Islam - and secularism, and the legacies of Soviet sociocultural practices and Russian culture among non-Russian peoples.

Current Project / "Cultural Nationalist Ideology in Post-Soviet Central Asian Nation-Building; The Contested Islamic Terrain in Post-Soviet Central Asia; Islam in Secularizing Societies; Central Asian Security"

Foreign Languages / Russian, Norwegian, Tajik, Uzbek, Spanish, Danish, Swedish

Education / Ph.D., Harvard University

Selected Publications

• "Central Asia: A Host of Preventable Conflicts," in P. van Tongeren, H. van de Veen and J. Verhoeven, eds.: Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
• "Setting the Stakes of a New Society," Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter 2002).
• "The Role of Resources in Conflicts in Central Asia," in J. Verhoeven et al, eds.: Searching for Peace in Asia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2002.
• "Islam in the Ferghana Valley: Challenges for New States," in H. Komatsu and S. Dudoignon, eds., Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia, Early Eighteenth to Late Twentieth Centuries, pp.323-339. London/New York: Kegan Paul, 2001.
• "Shifting Ground: How the Soviet Regime Used Resettlement to Transform Central Asian Society and the Consequences of This Policy Today," in: H. Komatsu, C. Obiya and J. Schoeberlein, eds., Migration in Central Asia: Its History and Current Problems, pp. 41-64. Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies, 2000.

E / schoeber@fas.harvard.edu