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Ship Graveyard, Moynaq
Red Sky (2025), Lyra Browning Lyra Browning is a second-year student of Russian and History at The University of Cambridge. Alongside her studies, Lyra is a keen artist and has drawn inspiration from recent travels in Central Asia. Lyra plans to deepen this engagement during her upcoming Year Abroad in Bishkek, where she will be…
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The Only Eagle Huntress
Byambasuren Enkhee was born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She received her bachelor’s degree in English and Environmental Studies at the University of Washington and worked as a community engagement professional in Seattle, Washington, before switching fields to gain an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on identity, language,…
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Selling Uyghur Foodways: The Shift in Culinary Borders Between China and Pakistan
Basmah Arshad is a doctoral candidate of history at the University of North Texas. Trained in cultural history, she is interested in issues of migration, race, and gender relevant to modern Asian and Asian American foodways. Previously, Arshad earned her Master’s in International and Regional Studies from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in…
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Desert Castles and Canals: Evolving Discourses on the Hydraulic Heritage of the Amu Darya
Robert Willard is a PhD student at the University of Vienna, in the department of Near Eastern Studies. His current research focuses on the use of heritage as a framework for practicing and maintaining water governance in Western Uzbekistan. Robert has 10 years of experience in ecological advocacy and fieldwork in Uzbekistan, in partnership with…
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Writing The History of the Kazakh SSR in Wartime Almaty.
In 1952, the Kazakh historian Yermukhan Bekmakhanov was sentenced to twenty-five years in a labour camp for his work on Kenesary Kasymov, the leader of a nineteenth-century Kazakh uprising against Russian rule.[i] The work that led to his arrest was published in The History of the Kazakh SSR, a text written during the Second World…
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Introduction
Views of Central Asia have historically been caught between an orientalised image from imperial powers and the visions that Central Asian societies hold of themselves. For this, the third volume of the Student Central Asia Forum, we invited proposals that consider the multitude of Central Asian horizons. We are delighted to present five submissions, encompassing…
