Contributors

Margaret DIKOVITSKAYA is Lansdowne Chair at the University of Victoria,
Canada, and Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study) Fellow, Hungary. She is the author of Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the CulturalTurn (2005).
Sergey GOLUNOV is associate professor of international relations at VolgogradState University, Russia. He is the author of Regions of the “Red Belt” in the Processof Internationalization: The Case of Volgograd Oblast (2001), and has edited several
volumes on border security problems.

Elza-Bair GUCHINOVA is senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology andAnthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Her recent books include Memoriesof the Forgotten: Anthropology of the Deportation Trauma of the Kalmyks (2005, inRussian) and The Kalmyks: A Handbook (2006).
HANYA Shiro obtained his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
the University of Tokyo, Japan. His articles include “Tselinograd, June 1979”(2003) and “N. S. Khrushchev’s Secret Speech and the Reestablishment ofAutonomous Territories in 1957” (2005), both in Russian.
Adeeb KHALID is professor of history at Carleton College, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (1998) andIslam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (2007).
Mambet KOIGELDIEV is professor of history and director of the Institute ofHistory and Ethnology, Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan. He is theauthor of numerous books, among them The Alash Movement (1995) and The National Political Elite from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries (2004), both in Kazakh.

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KOMATSU Hisao is professor of history at the Graduate School of Humanitiesand Sociology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the author and editor ofnumerous books, among them Revolutionary Central Asia: A Portrait of Abdurauf
Fitrat (1996, in Japanese) and Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia (2001, coeditor).

Alexander MARKAROV is associate professor of political science at Yerevan
State University, Armenia. He is the editor of How Armenians View Democracy(2004, in Armenian) and a coauthor of “Opposition in Russia, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan” (2004).
Ashirbek MUMINOV is deputy director of the Institute of Oriental Studies,
Ministry of Education and Science, Kazakhstan. He has coedited Handlist of Sufi
Manuscripts in the Holdings of the Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences, Republic ofUzbekistan (2000) and Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 3, Arabic,
Persian and Turkic Manuscripts (2000).
NAGANAWA Norihiro has recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation at theGraduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is theauthor of “Molding the Muslim Community through the Tsarist Administration”(2006).
OKA Natsuko is research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. She has coauthored The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan (2002)
and Koreans in Central Asia (2006, in Japanese).
George SANIKIDZE is professor of history at the Tbilisi State University anddirector of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences. He is
the author of Islam and the Muslims in Georgia Nowadays (1999, in Georgian), andhas coauthored Islam and Islamic Rites in Georgia (2004).

Dosym SATPAEV is director of the Assessment Risks Group, Kazakhstan. He is
the author of Lobbying: The Secret Levers of Power (1999) and Political Science inKazakhstan (2002), both in Russian.

UYAMA Tomohiko is professor of Central Asian studies at the Slavic ResearchCenter, Hokkaido University, Japan. He is the author of Central Asia: Past andPresent (2000, in Japanese) and “Two Attempts at Building a Qazaq State: The
Revolt of 1916 and the Alash Movement” (2001).

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