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Ali Igmen, Ph.D.Associate Professor of History
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Research Interests
Professor Igmen’s research interests include Central Asia, Eurasia, Russia, Soviet Union, Turkey, Middle East, China, World, Theater and Oral History.
Selected Publications
Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan. “Central Asia in Context Series,” Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, July 2012
“Four Daughters of Tököldösh: Kyrgyz Actresses Define Soviet Modernity” in Special Issue, “State-Society Relations.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and Middle East (CSSAAME), Durham: Duke University Press, 2012, volume 32, number: 1
“Kyrgyz Houses of Culture, 1920s and 1930s” in Reconstructing the Soviet and Eastern European Houses House of Culture, Joachim Otto Habeck and Brian Donahoe, editors, Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, New York: Berghahn Press, 2011
“No Tulips This Time, But Hope: Where did the Tulips Go?” UCLA International Institute on-Line Journal, April 8, 2010
“Reconstructing the House of Culture” in Central Eurasian Studies Review (CESR), Central Eurasian Studies Society, Center for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Madison: University of Wisconsin, Spring 2008, volume 7, number 1
Honors and Awards
Early Career Excellence Award, CSULB, 2011
SCAC (Scholarly and Creative Activities Committee) Awards, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology) Workshop Participant, Halle, Houses of Culture Workshop, 2007