FELLOW PROGRAM
WIUT Visiting Fellow program
Researchers willing to join the university on short term basis can do so through applying to Visiting Research Fellow program. This program targets people willing to pursue their own research and/or teaching in association with WIUT faculty members.
The university may offer:
- Access to library and online resources
- Access to research activities within WIUT such as attendance at research seminars and other training
- Use of our network of contacts
- Access to sport and health facilities of the university
- Visa application support
- Visiting fellows may also benefit, subject to availability:
- An office/desk space
- An accommodation within university dormitory
Visiting fellow in return is expected to:
- to contribute positively to the research and/or teaching at WIUT by closely working with faculty members.
- make at least one research seminar presentation to staff and students of WIUT
- to acknowledge WIUT appropriately in any publications which arise from the period of your visit to us.
- to abide by WIUT procedures, especially those to do with ethical research conduct, copyright and the appropriate use of the university facilities.
- to visit fellows spend at the university between minimum 2 weeks to 3 months.
Note that the university does not pay visiting fellows. The university also does not provide any health insurance. Therefore visiting fellows must be able to cover their expenses and health insurance from their own sources of funding.
To apply visiting fellows must:
- to have/expect to be awarded a Ph.D. from a recognized international university
- to have research interests in the area related to those of the university
Priority will be given to scholars interested in working with data or topics related to Uzbekistan or Central Asia
To apply please send your completed Application Form and current CV to research@wiut.uz
Our Previous Visiting Research Fellows
Dr Doğan is a researcher and lecturer at Marmara University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. Dr Dogan’s research activities are basically focused on the impacts of Turkey-EU interaction and its impacts over Turkish politics. He had been at Ohio State University, USA (1999-2000) and the Free University of Brussels-ULB, Belgium (2000) as a Ph.D. level visiting researcher, and Dublin City University, Ireland (2008-2009), Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2013), Jawaharlal Nehru University (2014), India as a post-doctoral researcher.
Mr. Kaito Doi, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) in Japan. Kaito is conducting research on subjective well-being, focusing on happiness and life satisfaction in Central Asia and transition countries. His research emphasizes the role of community and social capital, analyzing their impact on people's views of life and happiness through fieldwork and econometric analysis.
Mr Jintao Yang is a PhD student at the Faculty of Business, Management and Economics of the University of Latvia. His research interests focus on multinational corporations and conflict, foreign direct investment, and sustainable development. During his visit, he was investigating the EU foreign direct investment in Central Asian countries.
Dr. H. Deniz GENC is an associate professor of International Relations at İstanbul Medipol University. She earned her PhD degree from Marmara University, İstanbul in November 2013, with a comparative thesis on bordering processes of Spain and Turkey. She holds two masters degrees on EU Politics and International Relations from the University of Lund and Marmara University. She conducted post doctorate research in the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), at the University of Oxford in 2015. Her research focuses on different aspects of international migration. She has published on irregular migration, forced migration, migrant integration, and borders in Europe and Turkey in various journals including International Migration, Turkish Studies, Migration Letters, and IZA Journal of Development and Migration. Her research focused on migrants’ access to healthcare services in Turkey.
Huajing Yang is a PhD candidate for Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich. She has broad interests in post-socialist social transition, development and transformations, and transnational mobility and practices in Central Asia. Her dissertation consists of two themes: studies of immigrants and mobility in Uzbek community in Berlin, and social and economic transformation in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. As a member of the EU project on legal environment and business behaviors in Central Asia, she focuses on the research of business practice and localization on Chinese investment in Uzbekistan.
Prof. Meral Balcı has been working in the Department of International Relations. She has given lectures on Political History, Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish Political Life and International Relations. She has been living in İstanbul, married with two sons. She has been seconded to the Department of Law in Westminster International University in Tashkent for two months as a researcher on the EU-funded project Central Asian Law. Her study focuses on the women’s representation and participation in political life in Uzbekistan.
Khasan Redjaboev is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary research interests are in the political economy of development, transitions, and politics of post-communist Eurasia. In his dissertation, Khasan investigates the state-sponsored and gender-indiscriminate forced labor from the late Russian Empire to the post-Soviet statehoods, and its effects on gender attitudes, political elites, and institutions.
Ikromjon Tuhtasunov is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA) where he focuses on Comparative Politics and Political Economy. He studies how participatory institutions in developing countries affect citizens' perceptions of state legitimacy and trust in government. He is visiting Uzbekistan to conduct fieldwork on Participatory Budgeting. Ikromjon holds an MA in Global Affairs from the University of Notre Dame (USA) and a BA in World Politics from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent
Randall K. Filer, Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and, since 1993, visiting Professor of Economics and Senior Scholar at CERGE-EI in Prague. He was also President of the CERGE-EI Foundation, the largest supporter of economics education in the post-communist transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He still supervises the CERGE-EI Foundation’s Teaching Fellows program. Professor Filer is the President of the Economic Fundamentals Initiative.
Visiting period: October 12 – December 1, 2023
Dr. Anel Rakhimzhanova is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where she also earned her Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees. Her doctoral research explores the connections between infrastructure development, environmental transformation, and the politics of human mobility in shaping Central Asian modernities. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she is conducting extensive fieldwork across Central Asia, including archival research, studies of visual culture in the (Post)Socialist Anthropocene, and ethnographic studies on and along the road.
