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IAUNRC Affiliated Faculty

Department of Economics

Michael Alexeev
  • Associate Professor, Department of Economics
PhD, Duke University, 1984
Research Interests:
Soviet-type economies in transition
malexeev@indiana.edu
Michael Kaganovich
  • Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Ph.D., Moscow State University, 1985
Research Interests:
Models of economic transition
mkaganov@indiana.edu
Martin Spechler
  • Professor, Department of Economics
PhD, Harvard University, 1971
Research Interests:
Soviet-type economies, economies in transition, and comparative economics
mspechle@iupui.edu

Department of Central Eurasian Studies

Christopher Atwood
  • Chair, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1994
Research Interests:
Mongolian history; Sino-Soviet relations and Mongolia
catwood@indiana.edu
Ilhan Basgöz
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Ph.D, University of Ankara, 1949
Research Interests:
Oral literature, epics, romances; Asia, Near East, and Turkey
Gustav Bayerle
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Columbia University, 1966
Research Interests:
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Ottoman history, Hungarian history, and Ottoman philology.
Christopher I. Beckwith
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1977
Research Interests:
Ethnolinguistic history of Central and Eastern Eurasia, historical linguistics, typological linguistics, computational linguistics, and theoretical phonology
beckwith@indiana.edu
Gardner Bovingdon
  • Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
  • Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002
Research Interests:
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; and nationalism and ethnic conflict
bovingdon@indiana.edu
Yuri Bregel
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow
Research Interests:
The history of Islamic Central Asia
bregel@indiana.edu
Beatrix Burghardt
  • Language Coordinator, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
M.A., M.S., Attila József University, 1994
Research Interests:
Second language acquisition
bburhgar@indiana.edu
Jamsheed Choksy
  • Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
  • Professor, History
  • Professor, Ancient Studies
  • Professor, India Studies
  • Professor, Medieval Studies
  • Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
  • Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
PhD, Harvard University, 1991
Research Interests:
The religions of Central Asia, the Near East, and South Asia, with a special focus on Iranian studies
jchoksy@indiana.edu
Hakki Erdem Çıpa
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Harvard, 2007
Research Interests:
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.edu
Shahyar Daneshgar
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Director, Silk Road Ensemble
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1995
Research Interests:
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.edu
Devin DeWeese
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
PhD, Indiana University, 1985
Research Interests:
Islamic Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, religions and Inner Asia, and Islamic hagiography
deweese@indiana.edu
William Fierman
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
PhD, Harvard University, 1979
Research Interests:
Politics of Central Asia, especially policies affecting language, Islam, and state identities
wfierman@indiana.edu
Malik Hodjaev
  • John D. Soper Lecturer, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Certificate, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, 1980
Research Interests:
Modern Language Pedagogy and Linguistics, Intensive Methods of Teaching Uzbek as a Foreign Language, developing communicative audio, video, and multimedia teaching materials
mhodjaev@indiana.edu
Lynn Hooker
  • Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Musicology Department, Jacobs School of Music
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Central Eurasian Studies
Ph. D. University of Chicago, 2001
Research Interests:
Music and modernism, particularly in Hungary and in the careers of Béla Bartók and Franz Liszt; Eastern European minority issues, particularly those related to the Roma (Gypsies) and the minorities of Transylvania; gender in music and dance; national, transnational, and global identities, especially as seen though music
lhooker@indiana.edu
György Kara
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
PhD, ELTE University of Budapest, 1961, Doctor of Philology, Leningrad, 1975
Research Interests:
Mongol and Inner Asian studies: languages and cultures, including Old Turkic, Tibetan, Manchu, Evenki, Khitan and Altaic philology, history of writing systems, Altaic linguistics., Mongol literature and folklore
gkara@indiana.edu
Piibi-Kai Kivik
  • Associate Instructor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
M.A., Tartu University, 1997, M.Phil., Cambridge University, 1997
Research Interests:
pkivik@indiana.edu
Edward Lazzerini
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Director, Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
  • Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of History v
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1973
Research Interests:
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.edu
Paul Losensky
  • Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993
Research Interests:
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.edu
Larry Moses
  • Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1972
Research Interests:
Mongol history
moses@indiana.edu
Gulnisa Nazarova
  • Lecturer, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Doctor of Philosophy, Philology, Institute of Uyghurology, Academy of Sciences, Kazakhstan, 1992
Research Interests:
Uyghur language, Comparative lexicology of Turkic languages, Problems of Etymology, Ethnography, Methods of Teaching
gnazarov@indiana.edu
Gedun Rabsal
  • Lecturer, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ganden Jangtse College, Mundgod, Karnataka, India, 1992
Research Interests:
application of modern pedagological theory towards the teaching of Tibetan
grabsal@indiana.edu
Toivo Raun
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1969
Research Interests:
Baltic and Finnish history
raunt@indiana.edu
Ron Sela
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2004
Research Interests:
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.edu
Kemal Silay
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Chair Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
  • Director, Turkish Studies Program
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1993
Research Interests:
Ottoman philology, Ottoman court poetry, feminisms in Turkey and the Middle East, Turkish popular culture, Turkish oral literature, postmodernism, and social informatics
ksilay@indiana.edu
Elliot Sperling
  • Associate Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D, Indiana University, 1983
Research Interests:
Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations
sperlin@indiana.edu
Mihály Szegedy-Maszák
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Eötvös Loránd University, 1967
Research Interests:
Hungarian cultural studies, comparative literature, Interacts studies, narratology, structuralism and translation, romanticism, nationalism, modernism and postmodernism
szegedym@indiana.edu
Valeria Varga
  • Visiting Lecturer, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
M.A., Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Research Interests:
Teaching Hungarian as a foreign language; teaching English language, methodology; and English-Hungarian bilingual education
vvarga@indiana.edu

Center for Languages of the Central Asian Regions

Nigora Azimova
  • Uzbek Language Materials Developer, Center for the Languages of Central Asian REgion
M.A., Indiana University, 2006
Research Interests:
Applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, classroom discourse and teacher education
nhazimov@indiana.edu

Department of Political Science

Jack Bielasiak
  • Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975
Research Interests:
Post-Communist and East European politics
bielasia@indiana.edu

Department of History

Maria Bucur-Deckard
  • Associate Professor, Department of History
PhD, University of Illinois, 1997
Research Interests:
East European and Romanian history; gender studies
mbucur@indiana.edu
Ben Eklof
  • Professor, Department of History
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Research Interests:
History of Russian and Soviet education
eklof@indiana.edu
Matthias Lehmann
  • Associate Professor, Department of History
  • Associate Professor, Jewish Studies Program
Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin, 2002
Research Interests:
Ottoman History and Sephardic Studies
mlehmann@indiana.edu

Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Henry Glassie
  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1969
Research Interests:
Folk art and material culture; historical approaches; the United States, Ireland, Turkey, and Bangladesh
glassieh@indiana.edu

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Çiğdem Balım Harding
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Director of Language Instruction, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1979
Research Interests:
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
M. Nazif Shahrani
  • Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Professor, Department of Anthropology
  • Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 1976
Research Interests:
Islam and politics in Muslim societies of the Middle East and former Soviet Central Asia
shahrani@indiana.edu

Department of Second Language Studies

Bill Johnston
  • Associate Professor, Second Language Studies and Comparative Literature
  • Director, Polish Studies Center
Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 1995
Research Interests:
Translations of modern Polish literature
billj@indiana.edu

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Dodona Kiziria
  • Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University, 1979
Research Interests:
Russian and East European film studies, Russian literature, Georgian language
kiziria@iupui.edu

Department of Anthropology

K. Anne Pyburn
  • Professor, Department of Anthropology
  • Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Director, Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest
  • Director, Chau Hiix Project, Belize
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson, 1988
Research Interests:
Pre-historic systems of human organization
apyburn@indiana.edu

Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center

Kasia Rydel-Johnston
  • Assistant Director, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
MA, Jagiellonian University, 1982
Research Interests:
Second language acquisition
krydeljo@indiana.edu

Department of Telecommunications

Herb Terry
  • Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunications
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1976
Research Interests:
Telecommunications laws and policies, the values and ethical principles embodied in those laws and policies, and the political processes that produce them
terry@indiana.edu

Department of Geography

Roman Zlotin
  • Professor, Department of Geography
PhD, Academy of Sciences (Moscow), 1970
Research Interests:
Soviet and Russian geography and the environment
zlotin@indiana.edu

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Matthew R. Auer
  • Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
  • Dean, Hutton Honors College
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
Research Interests:
Environmental policy and management problems with an international focus: international environmental assistance, comparative industrial environmental policy, international policies governing forests and forestry
mauer@indiana.edu
Randall Baker
  • Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
PhD, London University, 1968
Research Interests:
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.edu
Vicky Meretsky
  • Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1995
Research Interests:
Ecology and management of rare species, biocomplexity, and landscape-level species and community conservation
meretsky@indiana.edu
John L. Mikesell
  • Chancellor's Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1969
Research Interests:
US state and local government finance, and budgeting
mikesell@indiana.edu

School of Library and Information Science

Mark Taylor Day
  • Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies
MA, Indiana University, 1982
Research Interests:
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

Jacobs School of Music

Mary Goetze
  • Professor Emerita, Jacobs School of Music
PhD, University of Colorado, 1985
Research Interests:
Central Eurasian folk music, history and culture
goetze@indiana.edu

Maurer School of Law

Joseph Hoffmann
  • Harry Pratter Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law
  • Director of International Programs, Maurer School of Law
JD, University of Washington, 1984
Research Interests:
The death penalty, habeas corpus, and federal criminal law
hoffma@indiana.edu
David Williams
  • JD, Harvard University, 1985
JD, Harvard University, 1985
Research Interests:
Constitutional law, Native American governance, and the second amendment
dacwilli@indiana.edu

School of Journalism

Owen V. Johnson
  • Associate Professor, School of Journalism
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978
Research Interests:
The history of mass media in East-Central Europe
johnsono@indiana.edu
Christine Ogan
  • Professor Emerita, School of Journalism
PhD, University of North Carolina, 1976
Research Interests:
Communication technologies and international communication
ogan@indiana.edu

Kelley School of Business

Marjorie A. Lyles
  • Professor, Kelley School of Business
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1977
Research Interests:
International strategy, joint ventures and alliances, organizational learning and cooperative alliances, and performance of foreign direct investment projects
mlyles@iupui.edu
Paul Marer
  • Professor Emeritus, Kelley School of Business
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1968
Research Interests:
Eastern and Central Europe

School of Education

Martha Nyikos
  • Associate Professor, School of Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1987
Research Interests:
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.edu
Margaret Sutton
  • Associate Professor, School of Education
  • Faculty Affiliate, Department of Gender Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1991
Research Interests:
Democratization and civic education, gender and education, and policy as practice
msutton@indiana.edu
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