MICRO-BIO

• Current research: Hizmet refugees in Canada; past research: NGOs in post-socialist countries; instructor: interdisciplinary honors program

  Current research: Hizmet refugees in Canada; past research: NGOs in post-socialist countries; instructor: interdisciplinary honors program Less

EXPERIENCE

• University of Illinois Springfield

  • Instructor
  • Capital Scholars Honors Program
  • September 2012 to Present

• University of Illinois Springfield

  • instructor
  • Capital Scholars Honors Program
  • One University Plaza
  • January 2012 to Present

• Blackburn College

  • Adjunct instructor
  • English
  • August 2010 to May 2011

• The University of Iowa

  • Teaching Assistant
  • Women's Studies
  • August 2001 to May 2002

• South Kazakhstan State University

  • Instructor
  • English Language
  • August 1996 to June 1998

EDUCATION

• The University of Iowa

  • Ph.D. Women's Studies with a concentration in Anthropology
  • August 1999 to December 2007

  Dissertation: Kazakhstan’s Soviet Past, Globalized Present, and “Emancipated Women:” A Case for a New Gender and Development Domain

• Illinois Wesleyan University

  • B.A. Women's Studies, B.A. English
  • August 1992 to May 1996

Interests

• Sports Studies

• Gender Studies

• Hizmet Movement

• Postsocialism

• Diaspora

• Refugee Communities

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