Expertise

Research Interests:

  • The cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism; state and society; Islamic movements; identity politics; social change and modernization; and Muslim family and gender dynamics in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia.
  • Islamic movements, identity politics in failed/failing nation states, Islamic movements, Muslim family and gender dynamics, cultural ecology of nomadic pastoralism, and the political ecology of state-society relations in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East.

 

Affiliations

Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Chairman, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Islamic Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Language Studies, Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Russian, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, University of Washington, Anthropology, 1976
MA, University of Washington, Anthropology, 1972
BA, University of Hawaii, Anthropology, 1970
Keywords
anthropology islamic studies middle eastern studies
Associations
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
Middle East Section of American Anthropological
Middle East Studies Association
Nominations Committee of the Middle East Studies Association