SURNAME Morozova
FIRST NAME(S) Irina Yurievna
TITLE Dr (Ph.D.)

Humboldt-Stipendiat at
GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES)
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany
T + 49-40-428 25477
F + 49-40-428 25547
e-mail: morozova@giga-hamburg.de
(01.09.2007-30.11.2009)

Affiliated Fellow
International Institute for Asian Studies
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden
the Netherlands
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
the Netherlands
T + 31 – (0)71 - 527 41 55
F + 31 – (0)71 - 527 41 62
e-mail: iymoroz@xs4all.nl
imorozova@fmg.uva.nl

Researcher and lecturer
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Mokhovaya 11,
103009 Moscow,
Russia

Date and place of birth
24.12.1975, Moscow

Nationality
the Netherlands (EU) & the Russian Federation

Education (degrees, dates, universities)
2002 Ph.D., History,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

1999 M.A., History, with distinction,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

1997 B.A., History, with distinction,
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Academic Career/Employment
2007 - Humboldt-Stipendiat, GIGA, Institute of Middle East Studies

2006 - Researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

2003 – Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands

1999-2002 Doctorate programme, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Specialization
(i) current research interests:
Political elites and regionalism in Central Eurasia; socio-political transformation in late Soviet period and at post-Soviet times;

(ii) main field:
History of Mongolia (PH.D. dissertation “Social Transformation of Outer Mongolia in the 1920-1940s”), social and political history of modern and contemporary Central and Inner Asia; political history of Soviet departments in Asia; comparative analysis of Asian socialist societies; China – Mongolia – Russia relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;

(iii) other fields:
Comparative-historical analysis of modern national movements in Central Asia; legal systems and nation-building processes in contemporary Central Asia, Mongolia and the Southern Caucasus; geopolitics and security in post-Soviet/post-socialist space; socio-political role of Islam in Central Asia in the twentieth century and at present.

Major Fellowships
2007-2009 Forschingsstipendium der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Germany)

2003-2004 NATO Science Fellowships Programme, NWO Scholarship (the Netherlands)

2001-2002 Lomonosov Fellowship for promissing Ph.D. students (Russia)

Other grants
2007-2009 OSI Europe, The Central Asia Research and Training Initiative (CARTI): CARTI International Scholar on the project "Formation of Political Elite in Kyrgyzstan"

2004 NATO Advanced Research Workshop Grant

2005, 2003 National Association for Mongol Studies Scholarship (Mongolia)

Membership of Professional Societies

2007 - International Advisory Board of Iran and the Caucasus, Brill Academic Publishers

2005 - Board member of European Society of Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)

2001 - Member of ESCAS

2001 - Member of Central Asian Research Network (CARN)

2001 - Member of the International Institute for the Study of the Nomadic Civilizations (IISNC)

2000 - Member of Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)

2000-2001 Member of the European Peace Research Association (EuPRA)

Editorial experience
2006 - editor and web-master of the ESCAS web-site

2004-2005 Central Asian editor for the Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies

Lecturing and teaching experience

(i) courses regularly taught at Lomonosov Moscow State University:
Social-political history and international relations in Central Asia in the twentieth century

Political economy of oil and gas complex in Asian countries

(ii) other courses:

Modern history of Central Asia

History of Mongolia and Tibet

Other academic and administration experience
1997-1999 member and secretary of the Council of Educational Methodologies for History Related Subjects (Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Organization of the International Scientific Meetings

Conferences:

Co-director of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security” (together with the NATO country co-director – Prof. W.A.L. Stokhof), Leiden 8-11 September 2004

Panels and Colloquiums:
GIGA IMES Colloquium "Power Models, Social Transformation and Elite Groups in Present Central Asia", Germany, 21 November 2008

ESCAS Panel "Regionalism and Political Elites in Cetral Asia" at CESS Regional Conference at Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 4-7 August 2008

Major Papers presented
(selection for the last three years):

Power Models in Nomadic Pastoralists' Societies of Central and Inner Asia: an Historical Perspective, International Workshop "Reconceptualizing Cultural and Environmental Change in Central Asia: an Historical Perspective on the Future", the National Institutes for the Humanities, Kyoto, Japan, 2009

External Factor in the Formation of Political Elite in Present Central Asia (the case of Kyrgyzstan), International Conference "Russia-Turkey Diologue on Central Asia and Caucasus", Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 2008

Power Models and Patterns of Elites' Consolidation in Present Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, GIGA IMES Colloquium "Power Models, Social Transformation and Elite Groups in Present Central Asia", Germany, 2008

Regionalism, Elites and Power Models in Present Kyrgyzstan, Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference, Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 2008

Ethnicity and the Question of Minorities in Soviet and present Kyrgyzstan, European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany, 2008

The Transformation of Political Elites in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1924-2007: A Comparative Historical Analysis, IIAS Fellow Symposium, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2007

Power Models and Elites' Adaptation: The Case of Mongolia in the 1920s and the 1990s, Zentralasien Seminar, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, 2007

The Impact of International Competition on Political Elite in Present Kyrgyzstan at Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2007

Political Leadership and Competiion in Soviet and Independent Kyrgyzstan at The ESCAS X Conference, Ankara, Turkey, 2007

Russia's Energy Policy in Central Asia: Imperatives for India at The International Seminar "Energy and Transport Linkages between Central Asia and South Asia", Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2006

Elites, Reforms and Power Institutions in Soviet Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia: a Comparative Historical Analysis at The Annual International Young Researchers Conference, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Ohio, the U.S.A., 2006

China's Strategic Interests in Central Asian Region through the Prism of its Co-operation with Russia at The Second World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, 2006

Participation in the International Schools and Seminars:
Summer Institute on Islamic Learning in Central Asia, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2006

North Pacific Fletcher Summer Seminar, Hakodate, Japan, 1996

Service to profession

Radio and television interviews:
Asian News International; Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

Documentary "Cavalry, Caravans, and Christians. Genghis Khan and Europe's Firts Global Age"

Reviewing for:

Routledge books; Iran and the Caucasus, Brill Academic Publishers; Ab Imperio

Field research:
2006, 2008 Kyrgyzstan
2003 Azerbaijan
2002 Uzbekistan
2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 Mongolia
2000 Buryatia

Language skills:
Russian, English, Dutch, German, Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, Kyrgyz

List of publications by Irina Morozova