Contact
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For further correspondence please contact the following members of the OASIES executive committee:
Darren Byler (dtb2105@columbia.edu)
Hannah Barker (hkb2106@columbia.edu)
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Darren Byler is a Liberal Studies MA student in East Asian Studies. His concentration of study centers on the historical and ecological processes involved in the incorporation of Xinjiang into the body politic of contemporary China. His interest in OASIES is an extension of his fascination with Uyghur society and culture as a uniquely positioned community between China and Central Asia. He is interested in scrutinizing the ways in which cultural hybridity and stability get enacted in a Central Asian/Chinese context.
Hannah Barker is a second-year PhD student in medieval history. She is currently studying the slave trade between the Crimea, Mamluk Egypt, and Genoa from the late thirteenth century to the early fifteenth century. Her involvement in OASIES stems from an interest in individuals, such as merchants, envoys, and pilgrims, whose activities transcended traditional regional divisions of history.
Owen Miller is a second-year PhD candidate in International and Global history. He is currently studying the history of the Ottoman Empire in 19th-century. His enthusiasm for the establishment of OASIES stems from an ontological concern regarding the production and dissemination of particular units of analysis ('civilizations,' nation-states, area studies) in the academic study of history, and from a broad interest in the global history of the Eurasian steppe. He can be contacted at orm2102@columbia.edu.
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Anthony Shin is an MA student in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). He is focusing on the development of linguistic nationalism in Turkic-speaking parts of Central Eurasia, as well as nationality policies relevant to the deportation of Azerbaijanis, Koreans, Crimean Tatars, and many other minorities in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. His interest in OASIES is closely tied to a long-standing curiosity about the relationship between the standardization and purification of languages and the associated nationalist movements. He can be contacted at aks2115@columbia.edu.
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Professor Gulnar Kendirbai (History) is working with our organization in an advisory role. As a Columbia faculty member whose work is closely and comprehensively related to Inner Eurasia, she provides relevant feedback, guidance and expertise on our activities and initiatives. She can be contacted at gk2020@columbia.edu.