Research Pieces - Faculty Edition + Affiliate Meeting

Over lunch, hear about the current research on Eastern Europe and Eurasia by affiliates of the Melikian Center.

Mark Cruse, School of International Letters & Cultures, who returns to ASU after spending 2024-2025 at the National Humanities Center working on his project, "From Alexander the Great to Tamerlane: World Dominion in the Medieval French Imagination"

Olga Ovcharskaia, Melikian Center, who comes from Stanford University to ASU as a postdoctoral scholar, continuing work on her dissertation project, "Humanitarian Crises in Late Imperial Russia: Literature and Charity"

Zhuldyz Zhumashova, Melikian Center's CLI, who taught Kazakh in the Center's summer language program for the first time in 2025, and who holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, is currently working on her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Texas A&M University, where her research focuses on Central Asian culture, semiotics, cultural anthropology, ethnic culture, Turkic culture, migration, and repatriated Kazakhs. 

Presentations and Q&A followed immediately by a meeting of the Center's affiliates