Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

M. Nazif Shahrani

• Professor, Department of Anthropology
• Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies

Education

• M.A. at University of Washington, Seattle, 1972, Anthropology
• Ph.D. at University of Washington, Seattle, 1976, Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website

PBS News Hour w/Jim Lehrer, July 2010
VOA, Radio Ashna Program, October 2010 (In Persian)
Lecture, University of Alaska, Juneau, October 2009

Research Interests

• Cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism
• State and society, Islamic movements
• Identity politics
• Social change and modernization
• Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia
• Afghanistan and Central Asia Research

Contact Information

Courses Recently Taught

• People and Cultures of the Middle East
• Representations of Islam and Muslims in Anthropological Literature
• Islam & Politics in Central Asia & The Middle East
• Post-Taliban Afghan/Global Terror
• Muslim States and Societies

Publication Highlights

• The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, pp. xli + 302, 2002.
• Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan: Anthropological Perspectives, M. Nazif Shahrani and Robert L. Canfield, eds. Berkley, Institute of International Studies, University of California, pp. xiv + 394, (Research Series #57), 1984.
• The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation of Closed Frontiers, Seattle, University of Washington Press, pp. xxiii + 263, 1979.

Media Appearances

• VOA, Radio Ashna, Interview (October 2010, Persian-Language)
• PBS News Hour, Analysis: Can Afghanistan Meet Karzai Goal of Handling Own Security by 2014? (July 2010)
• IU Professor Discusses Afghanistan Policy, Indiana Daily Star Editorial (December 2010)
• The Australian National University, Lecture: "President Obama’s ‘New’ Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy: Why it is Unlikely to Work" (October 2009)
• University of Alaska Southeast, Lecture: "Security and Governance in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: What Went Wrong and Why?" Video Audio (October 2009)

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