Curriculum Vitae

Education

2011 – 2016
Dr. phil. candidate at the Institute of Central Asian Studies, Faculty of Cultural, Social and Educational Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
Dissertation Topic: Legal Pluralism in Kyrgyzstan: Ethnography of a Local Jurisdiction and the Customary Practices of Management of Trouble-Cases

2010 – 2014 
Doctoral Programme of Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures & Societies (BGSMCS), Free University Berlin

2005 – 2008
Master of Art in European Studies, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Master Thesis: New ‘Great Game’ or New Chance for the Region? The Central Asian Strategy of the European Union

2004 – 2006
Additional Qualification Teacher of German as a Foreign Language (DaF), Leibniz University Hannover
Certificate in Gender Studies, Open University Hagen

2001 – 2005
Magister Artium in German Language/Literature and Political Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Master Thesis: Standardization of the Spoken German Language

1999 – 2002
Bachelor of Law (distance learning), Law Faculty of Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

1996 – 2001
Bachelor of Training Teachers of a Foreign Language, Bishkek University of Human Sciences
Bachelor Thesis: New Methods of Translation Research and Teaching

1986 – 1996
School Education in Naryn/Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

Professional Activities

05/2017 – present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department “Law & Anthropology”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

10/2016 – 12/2016
Research Fellow, Institute of Islamic Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany

04/2016 06/2016
Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University, New York (USA)

01/2014 – 06/2014
Teaching of Kyrgyz Language, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin  

2011 – 2013
Project Assistance, Translation of the book ‘Genealogy of Sarybagysh”

2010 – 2011
Intern, Embassy of Kyrgyz Republic in Berlin, Germany

2008 – 2009
Member of the Faculty Staff, Institute of European Studies, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

2005 – 2006
Member of Faculty Staff, Archive for Women, Refugees and Migration, Institute of Political Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

2004 – 2005
Member of Staff, International Office, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Grants and Awards

10-12/2016
STIBET Doctoral Programme, German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD)  

06-08/2015
Graduation Stipend, Dahlem Research School (DRS)

2012 - 2014
Doctoral Scholarship, Gerda Henkel Foundation (GHS)

06-08/2011
Travel Grant for Fieldwork, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), Free University Berlin, Germany

2009
Award for Social Commitment, Student Union, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

2008
Award for Best Master Thesis, Institute of European Studies, Leibniz University Hannover

2006 – 2007
ERASMUS Programme of the European Union (EU)

2002 – 2005
Scholarship for Foreign Nationals, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

08/1999
Stipend for German Summer School, German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD)

Fieldwork

2018 / 2019
Germany (mainly Berlin and Brandenburg)

2016
South-Kyrgyzstan
Turkey

2009-2013
Kyrgyzstan

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

06/2018
Paralleljustiz in Deutschland. Tagung "Parallele Lebenswelten? - Migrantinnen und Migranten in Deutschland im Brennpunkt von Polizei und Sozialarbeit? - Polizei und Sozialarbeit XXII" der Deutschen Vereinigung für Jugendgerichte und Jugendgerichtshilfen, Hofgeismar

11/2016
Female Vulnerability and Gender in Central Asia, Annual Meeting of Bavarian East Association (Munich)

04/2016
Cases, Customs and Laws: Legal Pluralism in Kyrgyzstan, Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University, New York (USA)

07/2016
Contribution of Kyrgyz migrants in Europe to socio-economic development of the homeland. 3th International Forum Mekendeshter, Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan

11/2015
Goldmine Kumtor: Scandals, Dividends, Investigation. German Conference of Development 2015, Greifswald

12/2013
Legal practices in Kyrgyzstan: informal, traditional and local? International Conference: Informal Practices/Structures in Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Academic Swiss Caucasus Net (ASCN), University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

11/2012
Legal Treatment of Marital Rape in KR. First International Conference: Women in Modern Central Asia, University of Graz (Austria)

09/2012
Why we need a shelter for battered women in Kyrgyzstan? Annual Meeting of Bavarian East Association (Munich)

05/2011 
Law as an Instrument of Social Change. International Conference: Anthropology of Law: Synthesis. Faculty of Humanities Charles University of Prague (Czech Republic)

06/2010
Kyrgyzstan – ‘failed state’ or ‘island of democracy’? German Society for Eastern European Studies, European Academy Berlin

Filmography & Exhibitions

2019
Translation of the documentary series “Nomadism and Pastoralism across the World”, (produced by Neue Celluloid Fabrik, Germany)

2019
Translation of the movie ‘Ayka’ made by Sergey Dvortsevoy

2018
Translation of the script for movie production ‘Ala-Kachuu - Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan’, written by Maria Brendle (Filmgerberei GmbH, Switzerland)

2016
Translation of the Movie ‘Heavenly Nomadic’, made by Mirlan Abdykalykov

2016
Assistance in Postproduction of Documentary: ‘Erkinai – semi-nomad’, made by Nadine Boller

2014 
Assistance in Postproduction of Documentary: ‘Flowers of Freedom’, made by Mirjam Leuze

2013 
Assistance in Documentary Making: ‘Chabandyn kyzy’ (Nomad’s daughter), made by Nadine Boller

09/2013
Photo Exhibition: Framing Muslims, 32nd German Conference of Oriental Studies (Muenster)

05/2013
Photo Exhibition: Re-Presenting Muslims: Images, Texts and Voices, Long Night of Sciences at Free University Berlin

04/2014
Photo Exhibition: Muslim Matter. Vernissage at the Institute for South Asian Studies, IAAW, Humboldt University Berlin

Social Activities

since 2010 
Vice Chairwoman of the Executive Board of German-Kyrgyz Cultural

since 2009
Membership of the aid project ‘Help for Kyrgyzstan’ of Bavarian Eastern Association

Languages

Kyrgyz, German, English, Russian, Turkish, Kazakh, Spanish

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