Curriculum vitae

CHOLPON TURDALIEVA

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1, Gertsena St. apt.# 8 Sex: Female

720021, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Nationality: Kyrgyz

phone: +996 (312) 66-33-09(office)

+996 (312) 43-36-48 (h) Citizenship: Kyrgyzstan

e-mail:

EDUCATION:
June 2010 / Doctor of Historical Sciences
November 2000 / Candidate of Historical Sciences
1995-1998 / Kyrgyz State National University, Post-Graduate Course
1984-1989 / Kyrgyz State National University, Historical Faculty
Dec.1994-July1995
2003-2006 / English Language Course, Center of Languages and Culture
I.Arabaev Kyrgyz State University, Post-doctorate Course
RECENT EMPLOYMENT:
June 2011
January 2006
October 2002-September 2006 / Professor
Associate Professor
Anthropology Program
American University of Central Asia
Chair of Cultural Studies Department
Faculty of Oriental Studies and Diplomacy
I. Arabaev Kyrgyz State University
Sept.2001-October 2002 / Dean of Cultural Studies Faculty
Institute of Eastern languages and Cultures
Sept.2000-Sept.2001 / I. Arabaev Kyrgyz State University
Department of Social Sciences, Senior Instructor
Nov.1998-Sept.2000 / Kyrgyz State Historical Museum, Senior Researcher
SELECTED RECENT AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
August-December 2011
September 2009-2011 / AUCA Faculty Research Grant from
A Board member of European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS).
December 2008-2010 / Central Asian Research and Training Initiative (CARTI) project, HESP OSI grantee
July 2006-2007 / “Narrative and Nationhood in Central Asia: History, Context and Critique” project, HESP OSI, Co-director
July 2005-July 2007 / CDC project, CEU, Hungary, grantee
Oct.2004-September 2005 / Fulbright Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Aug.2003-Oct.2006 / Central Asian Museum Initiatives project grant, OSI, Budapest, project director
Sept.2002-Sept.2004 / Central Asia Research Initiative grant (CARI),OSI, Budapest, grantee

July 2002-July2003

/ US Embassy Grant for the preservation and conservation of the Shakh-Fazil Muslim Monument, project director

Jan-Feb. 2002

/ French Institute of Central Asia Studies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, fellow

May 2001-May2002

/ Museum Management grant, Soros-Kyrgyzstan, project director

May-Nov. 2000

/ IREX Small Alumni Grant

Nov.2000

/ Kumtor Canadian Company Travel Grant

Sept-Dec. 1999

/ RSEP, ACCELS, Washington State University, Pullman, USA, fellow
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
July 19-21, 2006 / Historical lectures given at summer school of “Narrative and Nationhood in Central Asia: History, Context and Critique” project, Kyrgyzskoe Vzmor’e Sanatorium, Issyk-Kul region, Kyrgyzstan
Nov.10-11,2005 / Paper “19th and early 20th Century Americans about Kyrgyz and Kyrgyzstan”, International Symposium on Globalization and Turkic Civilization, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Sept 29-Oct 2, 2005 / Panel organizer, 6th CESS Conference, Boston, USA
February 10, 2005 / Lecture “The Kyrgyz in the Eyes of Western Travelers of the 19th and early 20th Century” at the Central Asian Group Meeting of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA
March 21, 2005 / Lecture “The History of Western Views of the Kyrgyz People: 19th and the beginning of 20th Century”, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
May 11-12, 2003 / Chair and organizer, International conference “Sources: the History and Perspectives of the Researching ” Bishkek
May 8, 2002 / Chair and organizer, Republic conference “East and West: Dialogue of Civilization” , Bishkek
Jan 10, 2002 / Chair and organizer, Republic Museum management conference, Bishkek
June 5-8, 2002 / Chair and organizer, Republic Museum management conference, Osh, Kyrgyz Republic
Oct 4-5, 2001 / Chair and organizer, Republic Museum management conference, Bishkek
September 1, 2000 / Organizer of the exhibition “Through Asia…” at the State Historical Museum “, Bishkek
May 16, 2001 / Organizer, Museum information technologies workshop,
Bishkek
CONFERENCES:
October 15-17, 2011
September 20-25, 2011
Sept.3-7,2009
Nov.10-11,2005 / International conference, AUCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
XIIESCAS conference, Cambridge, Great Britain
ESCAS conference, Budapest, Hungary
Paper “19th and early 20th Century Americans about Kyrgyz and Kyrgyzstan”, International Symposium on Globalization and Turkic Civilization, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Sept.29-Oct.2, 2005 / 6th CESS Conference, Boston, USA, paper
May 14, 2005 / 17th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central Asia, University of Washington, USA, paper
May 5-8, 2005 / Asia, Islam and Modernity, University of Washington, Seattle
April 21-23, 2005 / Fulbright Conference, Chicago, USA
April 8, 2005 / REECAS Conference, Portland, USA, paper
October 14-17, 2004 / 5th CESS Conference, Bloomington, USA
October 24-26,2003 / CARI Round-table, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
October 2-5, 2003 / 4th CESS conference, Harvard University, USA,paper
August 26-30, 2003 / Museum Management International Workshop, Seoul, Korea
August 19-22, 2003 / 3rd International Convention of Asia Scholars, Singapore
May 11-12, 2003 / International Conference “Sources: the History and Perspectives of the Researching”, Bishkek, paper
May 8, 2002 / Republic Conference “East and West: dialogue of civilization”, Bishkek, paper
December 10-12, 2001 / International Conference “Information Technologies in Culture”, Moscow, Russia, paper
August 6-10, 2001 / Workshop on Museum Management, Ulan-Ude, Russia
November 2-5, 2000 / Conference on Turk Epics, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, paper
August 20, 1999 / Republic Conference “ Silk Road’s Role in the Past and Future”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, paper
MEMBERSHIPS:
ESCAS Board member 2009-2011
Life member, Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. (USA)
Member, Central Eurasian Studies Society (Harvard University, USA)
Member, Association of Kyrgyz Historians (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
Member, Open Museum Association (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
Member, Association of Museums of Southern Kyrgyzstan (Osh, Kyrgyzstan)
TAUGHT COURSES: / History of Kyrgyzstan
Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
Anthropology Kinship
Great Game: Competition for Central Asia
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2008 / Monograph “Zapadnye puteshestvenniki i issledovateli o Kyrgyzakh i Kyrgyzstane”.-Bishkek: Altyn-Tamga, 2008.-272 p.
2005 / Published report The Kyrgyz in Western Travel books of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Central Eurasian Studies Review, Volume 4, No 2, pp.25-30.
2005 / “Museinoe Prostranstvo” (Museum Space journal), Bishkek, 2005, 63p. Editor
2004 / “Pravo i cultura”. (Law and culture collection), Bishkek, 2004,
235 p. Author of idea and editor
2004 / “Museinoe Prostranstvo”(Museum Space journal), Bishkek, 2004, 63p. Editor
2000 / Monograph “Istoria e Cultura Kyrgyzov v trudah Ch. Valikhanova” Bishkek: Erkin-Too, 2000.-165p.
Articles:
2009 / Imperskoe nasilie v trudah zapadnyh puteshestvennikov in Vestnik karahandinskogo universiteta, Karaganda, #2, 209, p.34-37.
2007 / Cholpon TURDALIEVA, "La femme kirghize Ю travers les rИcits de voyage (fin XIXe siХcle-dИbut XXe siХcle)", in Habiba FATHI (ed.), Femmes d'Asie centrale, Genre et Mutations dans l'espace islamique soviИtisИ, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007.
2004 / Kyrgyzy glazami zapadnyh puteshestvennikov in Sbornik I.Arabaev Universiteta, Bishkek, 2004, p.127-139.
2003 / “Istoria e kultura kurgyzov v trudah zapadnyh puteshestvennikov” in Sbornik Megdunarodnoy conferensii “Istochniki:Istoria i perspectivy izuchenia.-Bishkek, 2003,p.156-161.
2002 / “Sven Hedin – o kyrgyzah e Kyrgyzstane” in Sbornik konferensii. Bishkek, 2002, p.45-55.
2002 / “K voprosu istoriographii trudov evropeyskix puteshestvennikov e essledovateley XIX v. O kyrgyzax e Kyrgyzstane” in Materialy Megdunarodnoy konferentsee, posvashennoy 50-letiu E.Arabaeva, Bishkek,2002, p.498-502.
1999 / “Rodo-plemennaya structura kyrgyzskogo obshestva serediny XIX veka po trudam Ch. Valikhanova” in Obychai e obrady narodov Vostoka.-Bishkek, 1999, p.134-141.
“Etnicheskaya istoria kyrgyzov v trudah Ch. Valikhanova” in Tezisy dokladov VI Kongressa etnographov e antripologov Rossiy, M, 1999, p.48-49.
1999 / ”Opyt reconstrukcii skotovodstva kyrgyzov serediny XIX veka po svedeniam Ch. Valikhanova”in Otan Taryhy,Almaty, 1999,#3, p.95-97
1998 / “Trudy Chokana Valikhanova kak istochnik izuchenia materialnoy cultury kyrgyzov v seredine XIX v” in Vestnik Kyrgyzskogo Nacionalnogo Universiteta.-Vyp.3, 1998, p.81-85.
1998 / “Kyrgyzskoe zemledelie 50-60-h godov XIX v”in Jusup Balasagyn i sovremennost.-Bishkek, 1998, p.74-78.
“Iz istorii kyrgyzskogo skotovodstva serediny XIX v.” in Jusup Balasagyn e sovremennost, Bishkek, 1998,P.44-48
SOCIAL ACTIVITY: /

Republic Center of the Museum Initiatives NGO Director

Ak-Bilek Women NGO vise-director
LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES: / Kyrgyz, Russian, English
TRAVEL AND FIELDWORK: / Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Hungary, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, USA

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