Svetlana Peshkova, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies Minor
University of New Hampshire, Huddleston Hall, # 310
73 Main Street, Durham NH 03824-3532
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 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
M. A. Television, Radio and Film Department, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.
M.T.S. (Master of Theological Studies), Candler School of Theology, Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Magna
cum laude.
M.A. and B.A. Linguistics, State University of Linguistics (Pyatigorsk, Russia).
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CERTIFICATIONS
2004
2001
Advanced Certificate in Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Program), Syracuse University.
Certified Film Editor (Final Cut Pro, Avid, & Pro Tools), Syracuse University.
EMPLOYMENT
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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire (UNH).
Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Studies Minor, UNH.
- 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, Syracuse University.
- 2007 Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN).
- 2006 Teaching Fellow, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
- 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.
- 2002 Teaching Assistant/Associate, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
- 1999 Research Assistant, “Islamic Family Law Project” Sponsored by Ford Foundation and Law and
Religion Department, Emory University.
Teaching Assistant for Professor An-Na’im at the Academy for Social Construction under the
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).
Project Coordinator “Chechnya-Russia: Visions of Future,” sponsored by the Andrey Saharov
Foundation (New York, NY).
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. Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Press (1990). Sponsored by the Andrey Saharov Foundation.
GRANTS
2014
Special Projects Grant, the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
2012 (Summer) Islam, Society, Politics in Central Asia, a collaborative project by the Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) funded by the Carnegie Corp.
2003 - 2004 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 - 2003 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.
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Graduate School Research/Creative Project Grant, Graduate School, Syracuse University.
FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2013
2012
2011
2011
(Summer)
(Spring)
(Fall)
(Summer)
2011 (Summer)
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2009 - 2010
2007
2006 - 2007
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COLA’s Liberal Arts Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNH.
Junior Scholar Fellowship, the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow.
IREX (International Research and Exchange), Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program
(IAROP).
The 10th Annual Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute Fellow, UNH.
Graduate School Summer Faculty Fellowship, UNH.
Research and Engagement Fellow, Research and Engagement Academy, UNH.
Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center Research Scholarship (Washington, DC).
Outstanding Dissertation Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame (IN).
Recipient of the Maxwell School Dean’s Summer Fellowship, Syracuse University.
Recipient of the Maxwell School Future Professoriate Project Teaching Associateship. Maxwell School
of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.
Recipient of a Maxwell Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University.
Recipient of the Future Professoriate Teaching Associateship, Syracuse University.
Outstanding TA Award for the 2001-2002 Academic Year, the Graduate School, Syracuse University.
Syracuse University Summer Fellowship Award, Syracuse University.
“Two Stars” A Special Commendation on the film “After 9/11: Journey to Ground Zero” Produced
and directed by Peshkova and DeBarra, 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).
Toni Taverone Women’s Studies Graduate Paper Prize for “Religious Icons and Material Girls”,
Women’s Studies Program, Syracuse University.
Master of Theological Studies Merit Award, Emory University.
ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
2011
2002 - 2003
2001
Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
Researcher, Fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan.
CONSULTING
2001
Consultant-Researcher, “An Islamic Approach to Reproductive Health.” USAAID and Abt. Associates
Inc. (USA and Uzbekistan).
The Department of State (USA).
2010
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gender dynamics
Non-liberatory desires
Muslim women leaders
Ethnographic writing
Islamic education
Transnational Islamic movements
Female deity worship in Central Asia
Ethnographic film
PUBLICATIONS
Book (single authored, peer-reviewed)
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Women, Islam, and Identity: Public Life in Private Spaces in Uzbekistan. Series: Gender and Globalization.
Syracuse University Press (forthcoming, October 2014).
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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n.d.
“An Embodied Feminine Genealogy: Female Deity and Natural Landscape in Central Asia.” For Journal of
Middle East Women’s Studies. (Peer-reviewed. In preparation).
“Beyond Piety: Various Manifestations of Increased Religiosity Among Self-identifying Muslims in Uzbekistan.”
In Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia. Edited by Pauline Jones Luong and Alexandra Vacroux. The
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) and the Carnegie Foundation project on
“Islam in Central Asia.” (Peer-reviewed. The chapter is accepted. The book is under review by
Pittsburg University Press.)
“Against all odds: Muslim Women Leaders in Post-Soviet Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley.” Journal of Feminist
Studies in Religion. (Accepted. 30 Anniversary Issue. Forthcoming, November 2014).
March
“Teaching Islam at a home school: Muslim women and Critical Thinking in Uzbekistan” Central Asian Survey
Journal, 33 (1):80-94
June
“A post-Soviet Subject in Uzbekistan: Islam, Rights, Gender and Other Desires.” Women’s Studies: an
Interdisciplinary Journal, 42 (6):1-29
November
“Muslim Women Leaders in the Ferghana Valley: Whose Leadership is it Anyway?” Journal of International
Women’s Studies. 11 (1):5-24.
October
“Bringing the Mosque Home and Talking Politics: Women, Space, and Islam in the Ferghana Valley
(Uzbekistan),” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life. 3 (3):251-73.
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2014
2013
2009
2009
Referred Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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2013
2010
2005
2004
2002
2002
2002
2002
2000
“Muslim Women’s Leadership in Uzbekistan.” In Gender and Islam in Asia: a Reader,” Edited by Huma AhmedGosh. SUNY Press (The chapter is accepted. The book is accepted.).
“Muslim Women’s Protests In Central Asia: From the 19 to the 21 Centuries.” Online Encyclopedia of
Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Edited by Suad Joseph. (In preparation)
(December)
“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). Issue 5,
http://www.medanthro.ru/en/sienceen/stories/item/222-gorshunova-peshkova-eng
“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
“Political-Social Movements: Protest Movements in the Caucasus and Central Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Women
and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Edited by Suad Joseph Volume 2. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Pp. 633-636.
“Sources and Methods for Studying Women in Islamic Cultures: Post-Soviet Central Asia,” in Encyclopedia of
Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Edited by Suad Joseph, Volume 1. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Pp.
267-272.
“Freedom as an “Innate Desire”: Chechens and the Russian Federation,” in Maxwell Review. Spring 2002: 6880. (A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal edited and distributed by Maxwell doctoral
students, Syracuse University.)
“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
“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
“i-Islam @ Hisb-ut-Tahrir.org” in Anthro-Globe (open-access, on-line journal).
http://anthroglobe.info/docs/IslamAtWWW.htm
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
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Notes, Reviews and Editorials
2006
2003
2004
2003
S. Peshkova. “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.
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, A24.
Peshkova, S. “Follow Your Heart,” Gurlz Magazine, February-March, 3 (4): 66-67
“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.
Video Productions Broadcast, in Libraries, or Commercially Distributed
2009 -2002
2002
I Believe in Santa, documentary film directed and produced by Svetlana Peshkova (in production).
Showsisters, documentary produced by Svetlana Peshkova, directed by Peshkova/deBarra
After 9/11: Journey to Ground Zero, documentary produced and directed by Peshkova/deBarra
Manuscript, journal, proposal review/editing
2014
2013
2012
2012
2011-2010
2009
MS for Indiana University Press
MS for Central Asian Survey Journal
Grant-review for CUNY’s Incentive Grant
MS for Lexington Books
A founder/editor of Spectrum, an on-line undergraduate students’ journal, UNH (three issues).
MS for New York University Press
MS for Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
INVITED LECTURES
2013
2011
2010
2009
2008
2008
2007
2007
2005
“Islamic Education in Central Asia,” the Center for the Humanities, UNH.
“Individual Moral Projects and Differently Structured Desires in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.” “Bridging World
Regions: The Turkic Connection” Symposium. University of Virginia.
“Women and Leadership in Muslim Societies: History and Present.” The UNH Speakers Bureau, Oyster River
High School “World Literature” (two classes) (Durham, NH).
“Muslim Women Leaders: Whose Leadership is it anyway?” The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA).
“Hijab and Leadership.” Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
“Violence; Violence and Gender; Gendered Violence: Levels, Subjects and Participants.” Le Moyne College
(Syracuse, NY).
“Religion and Human Rights.” The J.B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre
Dame.
“Invisible? Informal Female Leadership in Islam.” The J.B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame.
Women’s Voices Radio (www.waer.org), “Childbirth and Motherhood Around the World,’ Producer/host Radha
Ganesan, aired 4/7/05
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Conference organizer:
2007
PRCPC Annual Conference “Knowledge, Practice, and Political Agency: The Religious Dimension in Conflict
Settings.”
Panels’ Chair (and presenter and/or discussant):
2013
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CESS (Central Asian Studies Society) Annual Conference (Madison, WI). A roundtable chair/organizer: “Past,
Present, and Future of Gender Studies in Central Asia,”
2011
2009
2009
2009
2007
CESS Annual Conference (Columbus, OH). Panel: “Soviet Transformation of Childhood and Family.” Chair and
Discussant
AAASS Annual Convention (Boston, MS). Panel: “Islam’s Influence in Central Asia and Azerbaijan"
CESS Annual Conference (Toronto, Canada). Panel: “The Diversity of Islam in Eurasia.” Paper presented:
“Approaching Religion and Informal Gendered Leadership in the Ferghana Valley.” Panel: “Muslim Institutions
in Modern Central Asia.”
AAR Eastern International Regional Conference (Syracuse, NY). Paper presented: “Understanding Other Ways
of Being: An Islamic Feminism in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan?” Panel: “Approaches to Islam.”
PRCPC Annual Conference “Knowledge, Practice, and Political Agency: The Religious Dimension in Conflict
Settings.” Panel: “Social Movements and Political Agency: The Roles of Religious Discourse.” Paper presented:
“Religious Discourse and Political Activism: The Case of Hizb-et-Tahrir in Central Asia.” Joan B. Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Presenter (regular and invited panels):
2013
2013
2012
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2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
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2006
2005
CESS Annual Conference (Madison, WI). “National Islam in Uzbekistan,” Panel: “Central Asian Women and
Islam: Ancestral Traditions and Modern Expectations”
ASEES. The 45 Annual Convention. Boston (MA). “Homeschooling Islam in Uzbekistan: Revolution as
Evolution” Panel: “Religion and Revolution.”
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) and the Carnegie Foundation. Seminarworkshop “Islam in Central Asia” at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). “Beyond Piety: Various
Manifestations of Increased Religiosity among Self-identifying Muslims in Uzbekistan.”
CESS Annual Conference (Bloomington, IN). “Female Deities and Women’s Fertility in the Ferghana Valley.”
Panel: “Islam in Central Asia.”
CESS (Miami, OH) “Individual Moral Projects in the Ferghana Valley of Post-Soviet Central Asia.” Panel: “Islam
as Anti-Politics.”
The 109th Annual Meeting of the AAA (New Orleans, LA). “Different and Differing Discourses of Reenchantment in the post-Soviet Ferghana Valley: From a New Age to a New Age.” Panel: “Conversion,
Evangelism and Ethnicity.”
Sarah Lawrence Women’s History Month, Conference: “Gender and Power in the Muslim World.” Sarah
Lawrence College (NY). Paper presented: “Gendered Leadership: Defining a Desire to Lead.”
The 25th Annual Conference of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS)(Washington
DC). Paper presented: “Otinchalar in the Ferghana Valley: Whose Leadership Is It Anyway?”
The 106th Annual Meeting of the AAA (Washington DC). “Social Movements in Central Asia: Religious
Discourse of Hizb-et-Tahrir.” Invited panel by American Ethnological Society, Society for the Anthropology of
North America: “Anthropological Research for Social Movements: Building a Collaborative Research Agenda
Towards Social Equity “(Part 2).
International Conference: “Defining Space.” University College of Dublin (Dublin, Ireland). Paper presented:
“Islam and Domestic Space: Women’s Religious Observance and Social Activism.”
The Society for the Anthropology Religion annual meeting (Phoenix, AZ). Paper presented: “Continuity and
Integration: Islamic Education in the Ferghana Valley.” Panel: “Faith after Atheism.”
The 59th Annual Meeting for AAS (Boston, MA). “Female Religious Practitioners in the Ferghana Valley: From
In- to Trans- formation.” Panel: “Examining Religion: Social Change in Asia.”
The 105th Annual Meeting of the AAA (San Jose, CA). “Informal Religious Leaders and the State.” Panel:
“Religion, Globalization and the State.”
CESS (Ann Arbor, MI). “Mathala: Cultural Artifacts from the Ferghana Valley.”
Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. “Islamic Education and
Critical Thinking.” Panel: “New Approaches to Peace and Conflict in Central Asia.”
“Middle East and Central Asia: Politics, Economics, and Society” Conference, University of Salt Lake City (Salt
Lake City, UT). “Muslim Female Leaders: The Case of Otinchalar of the Ferghana Valley.” Panel: “Gender,
Tradition, and Religion in Central Asia.”
The 104th Annual Meeting of the AAA (Washington DC). “Education and Critical Thinking: Otinchalar In the
Ferghana Valley.” Panel: “Islamic Knowledge: Processes of Engagement and Production.”
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TEACHING
Teaching competence
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Undergraduate and graduate courses: Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion (focus Islam),
Gender Studies, Area Studies (Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and North Africa), Conflict Studies,
Ethnographic filmmaking, Anthropology of Internet.
Undergraduate Courses
2009-
Assistant Professor. University of New Hampshire, Department of Anthropology.
ANTH 500: Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
ANTH 750: Gender and Islam (Writing Intensive Seminar)
ANTH 640: Anthropology of Islam
ANTH 513: Ethnographic Methods (Inquiry course)
ANTH 411: Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 616: Religion, Culture and Society (Writing Intensive Seminar)
ANTH 508: Anthropology of Internet (Summer and J-Term, eUNH)
2007- 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Religion, Syracuse University
REL/SAS 165: Islam: A broad Introduction to Islam
REL/SAS/WGSP 465: Gender and Islam: Gendered Lives of Muslims
REL 200: Gender, Islam and Politics (on-line)
REL/ANT/MES 400: Anthropology of Islam?: Everyday lives of Muslims
REL/MES/ANT 400: Islam and Globalization
2005-2006
Teaching Fellow: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
MAX 132: Global Community
1999 – 2002 Teaching Assistant/Associate: Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University Syracuse. ANT 185:
Global Encounters.
ANT 121: Peoples and Cultures of the World.
ANT 111: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Graduate Courses
2008
Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Religion, Syracuse University.
REL 600/400: Islam and Globalization: Transnational Islamic Movements.
Independent Studies and Senior Thesis
ANTH 795-796: Reading and Research: Charlene Higgins, “Islam and Anthropology” (Fall 2013), Samantha Gerrish and
Anthony DeSilva, “Anthropology of Internet” (Summer 2013), Jessica Davis, “the Middle East: Peoples and Cultures”
(Fall 2012). Molly Foyer, Erick Ruttilla and Hallie Miller, “Anthropology of Islam” (Spring 2014).
ANTH 700: Internship: Charlene Higgins, “Community Farm: Refugees from Bhutan “(Spring, 2013).
ANTH 699: Senior Thesis: Second reader for Alecia Bassett (2013-2014). Thesis-adviser and an adviser for a selfcreated major in Culture and Sustainability for Meghan Berry, and a second reader for Anna Lornitzo, UNH (Spring,
2013), Thesis-adviser for Lauren Banker (2012-2013), Thesis-adviser for Eric Pajer-Rogers (Fall 2010) and a second
reader for Olivia Marcus (2010-2011).
REL 779: Independent Study (Religion Leadership and Muslim Women), Syracuse University.
REL 200: Independent Study (Islam and Sexuality), Syracuse University.
High School
1993
Teacher of English as a Second Language, Public School # 10 (Essentuky, Russia).
MEMBERSHIP
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Association For Slavic Eastern-European and Eurasian Studies
(ASEES), American Academy of Religion, Middle Eastern Studies Association.
LANGUAGES
Russian (native speaker), English (native-like fluency), Uzbek (speaking, a beginner), Arabic (speaking, a
beginner).
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REFERENCES
Research and Teaching
Professor Robert A. Rubinstein
Syracuse University
Department of Anthropology
410 Maxwell Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-2367
[email protected]
Professor Joe Lugalla
Department of Anthropology, UNH
73 Main Street, Huddleston Hall
Durham, NH 03820
Phone:603-862-1847
[email protected]
Professor James Watts
Syracuse University
Department of Religion
501 Hall of Languages
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-3861
[email protected]
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