Editorial Board

“History of the Social and Ecological Culture of the Population of the Syrdarya Basin” by the Wolkswagen Foundation (Germany) (2015–2022); “Anthropological Analysis of Sufi Doctrines in Modern Central Asia” by the Foundation for the Development of Sciences (Japan) (2019–2022)

Hanafi Madhhab in the History of Central Asia (Almaty, 2015) and other catalogues and articles on Islam in Central Asia

Author of 11 books, 200+ articles

Qarakhanid Roads to China: A History of Sino-Turkic Relations (Brill, 2022). Book chapters in international edited volumes (2019–2022)

Deputy Director of the Center for Russian, Caucasian, Central European and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC).

Isabelle Ohayon serves as the Deputy Director of CERCEC at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). She is a specialized researcher affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Editor of Journals: “HABİTUS” and “İMGELEM”.

Author of approximately 70 academic works (Details to be updated).

Musa Yavuz ALPTEKİN is an accomplished academic who has taught and conducted research at several prestigious international institutions, including the University of Colorado (USA) and the University of Birmingham (UK). He is the author of approximately 70 academic works.

Author of 150+ publications

Member of Editorial Boards: "Ab Imperio", "Journal of Central Asian History", "Acta Slavica Iaponica".

Nationalisms in Central Asia (Monograph),
The Soviet Kishlak (Monograph)

Sergei Abashin is a Professor at the Faculty of Anthropology, European University at St. Petersburg. He is a prominent scholar in Central Asian studies and nationalism.

Was Vice-President of European Association for Central Asian Studies, author works on Turkmenistan, Karakalpakstan, and Georgia.

* Revisiting Himalayan Borderlands: A Bridge Between India and Central Asia (JK Books, 2022),
Youth in South and Central Asia: A Discourse of Changes and Challenges (Partridge/Penguin Random House, 2014),
Agrarian Reforms in Post-Communist Uzbekistan (Shipra Publications, 2012),
Yoke to Wheel: Agrarian Transformation in Kashmir (Din Dunia Publications, 2002)

Tareak Rather is a Professor at the Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir. His research focuses on the socio-economic and political transformations in Central Asia and the Himalayan borderlands.

Major publications with Brill and Austrian Academy

1. Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen Borders: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed.) (New York: Oxford University Press 2024) pp. 160
 Japanese Translation: 境界から世界を見る――ボーダースタディーズ入門 trans. Fuminori Kawakubo (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers 2015) pp. 205
 Korean Translation: 국경 : 아주 짧은 소개 (Seoul: Somyong Publishing 2023)
 Thai Translation: พรมแดน: บทนำสั้นมาก trans. Thanachate Wisaijorn (Bangkok: Illuminations Editions 2024)
 Arabic Translation: الحدود: مقدمة قصيرة جداً (Oxford University Press 2027)
2. A. Diener. One Homeland or Two?: Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia’s Kazakhs (Palo Alto, CA and Washington DC: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2009) pp. 405
3. A. Diener. Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration among Kazakhstan's Germans and Koreans (Lampeter UK: Mellen Press, 2004) pp. 201

Rakhimov, R. Patrimonialization and Ethno-Cultural Management in Kyrgyzstan and Mexico: Two Contrasting Policies // Heritage & Society, 2022;
Rakhimov, R. WWII Rhetoric in the Context of Kyrgyzstani Labor Migration // The Muslim World, 2020.

 National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ICESCO Affairs;
 Board of the International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations under UNESCO;
 International Organizing Committee for the World Congress of Orientalists (ICANAS);
 Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC);
 International French Association for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), France;
 Board of Directors of the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA);
 The Islamic Manuscript Association (Cambridge) President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) in 2013–2015;
 Central Asian Forum at the University of Cambridge.

Author and Editor more than 300 publications, including 10 monographs and 3 textbooks, published in Kazakh, Russian, English, French, Turkish, and Persian, including:

 Abusseitova, M. (2019). Historical and Cultural Relations between Kazakhstan and Russia: History and the Present. Istoriya [History], No. 1(75). Moscow. ISSN 2079-8784. The journal has been indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and Scopus.
 Abusseitova, M. (2020). The Kazakh Khanate. Almaty.
 Abuseitova, M. (Ed.) (2020). A Reader on the Medieval History of Kazakhstan (6th–19th Centuries). Almaty.
 Abusseitova, M. and others. (2023). Catalogue of Maps on the History and Culture of the Great Steppe (Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern Era). Almaty.
 Abusseitova, M. and others. (2024). Catalogue of Visual Artifacts Identified in Foreign Archives and Collections on the History and Culture of Eurasia. Almaty.
 Abusseitova, M. and others. (2024). Catalogue of Written and Archival Sources on the History and Culture of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Almaty.