In Memoriam – David Morgan (1945-2019)

Professor David Orrin Morgan passed away on October 23, 2019 due to endocarditis and multiple organ failure after aortic valve replacement and a coronary bypass graft two days prior. Although his death at age 74 was far too early, he left an enduring legacy through his family, scholarship, and the students he mentored. Best known […]

Author Interview: Jeff Eden on “Slavery and Empire in Central Asia”

A new post is live at The CESS blog. In this third installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, Sergey Salushchev (University of California, Santa Barbara) who interviews Jeff Eden (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) about his book Slavery and Empire in Central Asia.    From the Cambridge University Press website: […]

Turkologist Andrei Kubatin Acquitted September 26, 2019

September 27, 2019 CESS is very pleased to share the news of Andrei Kubatin’s acquittal yesterday by a Tashkent regional criminal court. Nadezhda Ataeva, President of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, posted a photo of Kubatin and his family with a comment, “Free!” See the following articles at Ferghana News and Eurasia.net […]

The History of Soviet Anthropology in Kazakhstan

In this special post Rinat Shayakhmetov, grandson of the first Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Zhumabay Shayakhmetov and himself a researcher of Soviet Kazakhstan, presents a narrative history of his uncle Noel Shayakhmetov, one of Kazakhstan’s first scientists working in the field of physical anthropology.