John Schoeberlein

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
Lecturer on Central Asia, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard

Contact Information
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
3rd Floor- CGIS
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.4338
schoeber@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~schoeber

Research Interests
Identity, ethnicity, conflict, gender, nationality, religion and community organization among the Islamic peoples of Central Eurasia, including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, southern Russia and the Caucasus

Current Projects
"Cultural Nationalist Ideology in Post-Soviet Central Asian Nation-Building," "The Contested Islamic Terrain in Post-Soviet Central Asia," "Islam in Secularizing Societies," and "Central Asian Security"

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.

"The Caspian Region: Geography, Population and National Identity," in The Caspian Region at a Crossroad: Challenges of a New Frontier of Energy and Development, with Alisher Ilkhamov, edited by Houshang Amirahmadi, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

"Between Two Worlds: Obstacles to Development and Prosperity," Harvard International Review, 22(1)56-61. Cambridge, Mass., Winter/Spring 2000.

"Central Asian Studies in an International Context," in Re-entering the Silk Routes: Current Scandinavian Research on Central Asia, edited by Birgit Schlyter and Mirja Juntunen. New York: Kegan Paul International, 1999.