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Svetlana Peshkova, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of New Hampshire
Huddleston Hall, # 310
73 Main Street, Durham NH 03824-3532
603-862-1864
DEGREES AWARDED
2006 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). Dissertation: Otinchalar (women religious practitioners and leaders) in the Ferghana Valley: Power, Gender and Islam.
2002 M.A. Television, Radio and Film Department, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
1999 M.T.S. (Master of Theological Studies), Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Magnacum laude.
1996 M.A. and B.A. Linguistics, State University of Linguistics (Pyatigorsk, Russia).
CERTIFICATIONS
2004 Advanced Certificate in Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Program), Syracuse University.
2001 Certified Film Editor (Final Cut Pro, Avid, & Pro Tools), Syracuse University.
EMPLOYMENT
2015 - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNH (Durham, NH).
2013 - Core Faculty, Women’s Studies Program. UNH.
2009-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UNH.
2012-2016 Coordinator of the Middle East Studies Minor. UNH.
2007-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, Syracuse University.
2006-2007 Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (IN).
2005-2005 Teaching Fellow, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2003-2004 Hewlett Foundation/PARC Research Assistant in Social Conflict Studies, Program on Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
1999-2002 Teaching Assistant/Associate, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University.
1998-1999 Research Assistant, “Islamic Family Law Project” sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Law and Religion Department, Emory University (GA).
1998 Teaching Assistant for Professor An-Na’im at the Academy for Social Construction under the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).
1998 Project Coordinator “Chechnya-Russia: Visions of Future,” sponsored by the Andrey Saharov Foundation (NYC).
1998 Research Assistant for the Russian translation and distribution of Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im’s book Towards an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (1990, Syracuse University Press). Sponsored by the Andrey Saharov Foundation (NYC).
GRANTS
2016 “Who Owns the Past?” Sidore Series Grant, the Center for the Humanities, UNH. With Prs. McMahon, Ruane, Smith, and Pr. Wolper.
2016 COLA, UNH. Grant to attend the Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual World Convention. Panel: Language, Cultural Production, and National Identity. Discussant.
2015 Special Projects Grant, the Center for the Humanities, UNH. “Uzbekistan Beyond the ‘Curtain.’ Approaches, Fieldworks, and Topics.” Conference Organized by GWU’s Central Asia Program, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Uppsala University (Sweden). Invited paper: “Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan.”
2014 Special Projects Grant, the Center for the Humanities, UNH. Bringing film director Lina Makboul to UNH.
2012 Islam, Society, Politics in Central Asia, a collaborative project by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) funded by the Carnegie Corp. NYC.
2003 Hewlett Foundation/PARC Grant for Research Assistantship in Social Conflict Studies, Program on Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2002 Claudia Delys Grant for Dissertation Research in Central Asia. Anthropology Department, Syracuse University.
2002 European Union Center Summer Research Stipend/Grant. Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2001 Global Affairs Institute Goekjian Summer Research Stipend/Grant, Maxwell School of International Relations, Syracuse University.
2001 Graduate School Research/Creative Project Grant, Graduate School, Syracuse University.
FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2015-2016 Publicly Engaged Humanities Fellowship, the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
2013 College of Liberal Arts (COLA). Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNH.
2012 Junior Scholar Fellowship, the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
2011 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow.
2011 International Research and Exchange (IREX), Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IAROP).
2011 The 10th Annual Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute Fellow, UNH.
2011 Graduate School Summer Faculty Fellowship, UNH.
2011 Research and Engagement Fellow, Research and Engagement Academy, UNH.
2010 Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center Research Scholarship (Washington, DC).
2009 Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center Research Scholarship (Washington, DC).
2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2006-2007 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (IN).
2006 Recipient of the Maxwell School Dean’s Summer Fellowship, Syracuse University.
2004-2005 Recipient of a Maxwell Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2002 Outstanding TA Award for the 2001-2002 Academic Year, the Graduate School, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY).
2002 Syracuse University Summer Fellowship Award, Syracuse University.
2002 “Two Stars” A Special Commendation on the film “After 9/11: Journey to Ground Zero,” produced and directed by Peshkova/DeBarra, by Canadian International Annual Film and Video Festival Third place in the Information Technology, War and Peace Project 9.11. Student Film Competition. INFO/tech/war/peace project, the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University (Providence, RI).
2001-2002 Recipient of the Maxwell School Future Professoriate Project Teaching Associateship. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2001 Toni Taverone Women’s Studies Graduate Paper Prize for “Religious Icons and Material Girls”, Women’s Studies Program, Syracuse University.
1998-1999 Master of Theological Studies Merit Award, Emory University (Atlanta, GA).
ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
2011 Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
2002-2003 Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
2001 Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
CONSULTING
2010 The Department of State (USA).
2001 Consultant and Researcher, “An Islamic Approach to Reproductive Health.” United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Abt Associates Inc. (USA and Uzbekistan).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
A New Feminism in post-Socialist Central Asia; Gender dynamics; Decolonialism; Non-liberatory discourses on rights; Muslim women leaders; Islamic education; Transnational Islamic Movements; Female deity worship in Central Asia; Women’s protests in Central Asia; Life-history; Ethnographic writing; Performative anthropology; Ethnographic film.
PUBLICATIONS
Book (single authored, peer-reviewed)
2014 Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Series: Gender and Globalization. Series Ed. Susan Wadley. Syracuse University Press.
2015 Reviewed by Lilia Karimova. Central Asian Studies Survey Journal. 34 (4):572-574.
2015 Reviewed by Emma Varley at the Association for Feminist Anthropology Website http://afa.americananthro.org/book-review/women-islam-and-identity-private-life-in-public-spaces-in-uzbekistan/ (Accessed April 6, 2017).
2016 Reviewed by Michele E. Commercio, Noor O’Neill Borbieva, and Natalie Koch, and Peshkova’s response to the reviews, Central Asian Affairs 3: 77-93.
2016 Reviewed in Anna Sieslewska (in Russian), Anthropologicheskij Forum (Anthropological Forum, Russia), 28: 334-339, see http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/028/cieslewska.pdf (Accessed April 8, 2016).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
n. d. “Gender Structure.” In Central Asia in Context: A Thematic Introduction to the Region. Edited by D. Montgomery. Pittsburg University Press. (Revisions)
2017 “Women and Social Change in Uzbekistan: Public Life in Private Spaces.” In Uzbekistan Beyond the ‘Curtain.’ Approaches, Fieldworks, and Topics. Edited by Marlene Laurelle &Timur Dadabaev. Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield. (In press)
2017 “Beyond Piety: Self-related Muslims in Uzbekistan.” In Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia.
Edited by Pauline Jones Luong. University of Pittsburg Press. Pp. 29-55.
2015 “Leading Against Odds: Muslim Women Leaders and Teachers in Uzbekistan.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.31(1):23-44.
2014 Teaching Islam at a Home School: Muslim Women and Critical Thinking in Uzbekistan,” Central Asian Survey Journal, 33 (1):80-94.
2013 “A post-Soviet Subject in Uzbekistan: Islam, Rights, Gender and Other Desires.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42 (6):1-29.
2009 “Muslim Women Leaders in the Ferghana Valley: Whose
Leadership is it Anyway?” Journal of International Women’s Studies. 11 (1):5-24.
2009 “Bringing the Mosque Home and Talking Politics: Women, Domestic Space, and the State in the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan),” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life. 3 (3):251-73.
Referred Journal Articles and Book Chapters
n.d. “Female Religious Leaders in Uzbekistan:From Individual to Social Change.” In Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Social Change. Edited by Linda Lindsey and Mehrangiz Najafizadeh, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). (Accepted)
2016 “Uzbekistan under Karimov and after” for Uzbekistan Forum, a special issue of Central Asian Survey Journal. http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/cas-uzbekistan-forum
2016 Peshkova, S., “Author’s Response,” in “Book Discussion” of Svetlana Peshkova, Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan, by Michele E. Commercio, Noor O’Neill Borbieva, and Natalie Koch. Central Asian Affairs 3: 87-93
2015 “Muslim Women’s Leadership in Uzbekistan: Religion and Emotion.” In Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia: A Reader. Edited by Huma Ahmed-Gosh. SUNY Press. Pp 21-47.
2013 “Fertility and the Sacred Feminine in the Central Asian Healing and Ritual Practices.” Co-author: Olga Gorshunova. Medical Anthropology and Bioethics: Scientific, Educational, and Popular Science Journal (The Center for Medical Anthropology and Bioethics: Moscow, Russia. Online). Issue 5.
2010 “Muslim Women Leaders in the post-Soviet Ferghana Valley: Whose Leadership is it Anyway?” Reprinted. AEER (Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review) Journal. 28 (1): 302-331.
2002 “Freedom as an “Innate Desire”: Chechens and the Russian Federation,” in Maxwell Review. Spring 2002: 68-80. (A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal edited and distributed by Maxwell doctoral students, Syracuse University.)
2002 “Family, Sacred Places and Islamic Law: Islamic Approach to Reproductive Health in the Ferghana Valley,” in Anthro-Globe: open-access, on-line journal). (http://anthroglobe.info/docs/Reproductive_Health_in_Ferghana.htm).
2002 “Family, Sacred Places and Islamic Law: Islamic Approach to Reproductive Health in the Ferghana Valley.” Working paper. Gender and Globalization Program, Moynihan institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University). (http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/gandg/pdfs/Lana.pdf)
2002 “i-Islam @ Hisb-ut-Tahrir.org” in Anthro-Globe: open-access on-line journal (http://anthroglobe.info/docs/IslamAtWWW.htm)
2000 An-Na’im, Abdullahi and Svetlana Peshkova “Social Movements Revisited: Mediation of Contradictory Roles,” in The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing & Social Justice. Edited by Ifi Amadiume & Abdullahi An-Na’im. London: Zed Books. Pp.68-90.
Invited Contributions
2017 “Women’s Marches:” Socio-Political Activism of Central Asia Women,” Russian and English versions, Central Asian Analytical Network, (on-line publication). http://caa-network.org/archives/8361
2005 “Political-Social Movements: Protest Movements in the Caucasus and Central Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Edited by Suad Joseph Volume 2. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Pp. 633-636.
2004 “Sources and Methods for Studying Women in Islamic Cultures: Post-Soviet Central Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Edited by Suad Joseph, Volume 1. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Pp. 267-272.
Notes, Reviews and Editorials
2015 Review of “Chaos, Violence, and Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia,” by Eric McGlinchey (2011, University of Pittsburg Press), Central Asian Survey, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2015.1073453 Published online 17Aug 2015.
2015 Review of “Freedom on the Mat,” an audio-documentary about yoga in Palestine by Muireann de Barra. http://freedomonthemat.com/reviews-and-commentary/, accessed May 26, 2015. Listen to a podcast of the documentary at http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/Documentary_on_Newstalk/
2006 Review of “Wearing Hijab: Uncovering the Myths of Islam in the United States.” Anthropology Review Database. December 11, http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2698, accessed February 12, 2007.
2004 “Follow Your Heart,” Gurlz Magazine, February-March, 3 (4): 66-67
2003 Peshkova, S. and Rubinstein, R.A., “Iraq Reconstruction Crippled by Lack of Cultural Understanding,” syndicated op-ed published under different titles in Lincoln, NE, Lincoln Journal Star, 13 August 2003; Watertown, NY, Watertown Daily Times, 15 August 2003; and Huntsville Times, 17 August.
2003 “What Does Allah have to do with Eminem in Uzbekistan? Notes from the Near Past,” Beg, Borrow, or Steal: non-profit magazine 1:8-10.
Productions Broadcast, in Libraries, or Commercially Distributed
2002 Showsisters, documentary film produced by Svetlana Peshkova, directed by Peshkova/deBarra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyvmEGGkbKo).
2002 After 9/11: Journey to Ground Zero, documentary film produced and directed by Peshkova/deBarra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxDs2i9C2jQ).
Manuscript, journal, proposal review/editing
2017 Textbook Proposal, Routledge
2016 MS for Indiana University Press.
2016 MS for Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield
2015 MS for Central Asian Affairs Journal
2014 MS for Indiana University Press
2013 MS for Central Asian Survey Journal
2012 Grant-review for CUNY’s Incentive Grant
2012 MS for Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield
2011- Founder/Editor and co-Editor of Spectrum, an on-line undergraduate students’ journal, Anthropology Department, UNH (four issues).
2010 MS for New York University Press
2009 MS for Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
LECTURES AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Invited talks
2015 “Why Learn about Middle East and North Africa,” Invited Talk at Seacoast Charter School, Dover, NH.
2014 “A Feminine Genealogy,” Women’s Studies Program, UNH.
2013 “Islamic Education in Central Asia,” the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
2013 Three invited lectures “Gender and Culture” for the Department of Anthropology (ANTH 411.01, 411.02 and ANTH 511), UNH.
2011 “Individual Moral Projects and Differently Structured Desires in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.” “Bridging World Regions: The Turkic Connection” Symposium. University of Virginia (Richmond, VA).
2010 “Women and Leadership in Muslim Societies: History and Present.” UNH Speakers Bureau. Oyster River High School, “World Literature” Class (Durham, NH).
2009 “Muslim Women Leaders: Whose Leadership is it Anyway?” The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
2008 “Hijab and Leadership.” Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
2008 “Violence; Violence and Gender; Gendered Violence: Levels, Subjects and Participants.” Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY).
2007 “Religion and Human Rights.” The J.B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (IN).
2007 “Invisible? Informal Female Leadership in Islam.” The J.B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (IN).
2006 “Islamic Education and Critical Thinking.” Panel: “New Approaches to Peace and Conflict in Central Asia.” Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (IN).
2005 Women’s Voices Radio (www.waer.org), “Childbirth and Motherhood Around the World,’ Producer/host RadhaGanesan, aired April 7, 2005. Syracuse (NY).