Personen

Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Forschungsprojekt: "Internal Labour Migration in Central Asia, 1870-1917: Social Drivers and Government Impediments to Movement" (AvH)
Regionaler Schwerpunkt: Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan
Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev
Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev

Positions

since 05/2024
Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
08/2021 - 04/2024
Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
01/2021 - 08/2021
Docent at National University of Uzbekistan
10/2019 - 12/2020
Senior Research Fellow at Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
09/2018 - 09/2019
Research Fellow at the Department of Asian and African Studies, British Library, London, UK
01/2018 - 08/2018
Junior Research Fellow at Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
10/2016 - 04/2017
Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, USA
01/2016 - 02/2016
Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
04/2014 - 04/2017
Research Fellow at Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
04/2011 - 07/2011
Visiting Doctoral Researcher at Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg Halle-Saale, Germany
07/2010 - 12/2014
Junior Research Fellow at National Archive of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Education

2015 - 2019
PhD in History, Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan
2008 - 2010
M.A. in Source Studies and Central Asian History, Department of Central Asian History, Tashkent State Institute for Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan
2004 - 2008
B.A. in Central Asian History, Department of Central Asian History, Tashkent State Institute for Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan

Publications

Monographs

Жиззах воҳасининг ижтимоий тарихи: Аграр муносабатлар мисолида (1870-1917 йиллар). Тошкент, 2023.

XIX аср охири – XX аср бошлари Туркистон тарихига оид манбалар.  Тошкент: Инновацион ривожланиш нашриёт-матбаа уйи, 2020. (With Sanobar Shadmanova and Nargiza Alimova)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Empire and medicine in Central Asia, 1865-1917: A comparison with British India, in: Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, 28:1-2 (2024), pр. 57-70. (with Sanobar Shadmanova)

Turkistonda mulk va jamoa yerlarining huquqiy holati (XIX asr – XX asr boshlari), in: Meros, 2 (2023), pp. 106-119.

The Turkestan statute and the reorganization of administrative divisions in Central Asia, 1886-1917: A case study of Jizzakh district, in: Oriente Moderno 102:2 (2022), pp. 281-300.

19 asrning 70-90 yillarida Mirzacho‘lning tarixiy-geografik holati [Historical and geographical situation of Mirzachul in 1870s-1890s], in: O‘zbekiston tarikhi, 1 (2017), pp. 13–21.

Rural land situation in Turkestan under Tsarist rule, in: Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, 19: 3-4 (2015), pp. 59-69.

19 asr okhiri - 20 asr boshlarida Jizzakhdagi yer narkhlari to‘g‘risida ayrim mulohazalar [Some notes on land prices in Jizzakh in the late 19th – early 20th centuries], in: O‘zbekiston tarikhi, 2 (2014), pp. 44–55.

Book Chapters

The 1916 uprisings in Jizzakh: economic background and political rationales. In: The Central Asian revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution, Eds. Chokobaeva, A., Drieu, C., Morrison, A. (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 2019, pp. 71-94. (With Cloe Drieu).

Blog-post

Soviet Labour Unions in Uzbekistan in the 1920s: Views from the magazine Mihnat. // in: British Library’s Asian and African studies blog. 30 April 2019. https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and- african/2019/04/index.html

Invited Talk

Rural land situation in Turkestan under Tsarist rule,” Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, April 13.

International Conferences and Workshops

2022: “From pasture to forest: The creation of forest areas in the steppe territories in Central Asia and its impact on mobile pastoralism, 1886-1916,” 7th Summer Conference of Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, 23-26 June, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

2019: “The saxaul fuel trade in the late 19th-and-early 20th-century Central Asia: The view from Jizzakh,” 16th Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, University of Exeter, 27-29 June,  Exeter, UK.

2018: “Land and resource management in Turkestan under Tsarist rule: from Islamic Law to colonial legislation,” International workshop “Underground resources and citizen’s rights in Central Asia”, American University of Central Asia, 2-8 June, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

2015: “Rural Land in Jizzakh: Property Rights under Tsarist Rule,” ICCEES IX World Congress, August 3-8,  Makuhari, Japan.

2014: “Rural Land in Jizzakh: Prices and Property Rights under Tsarist Rule,” ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional conference, Nazarbayev University, 22-24 May, Astana, Kazakhstan.

2013: “Stockbreeder, Frontier, and the Consequence of Russian Rule in Jizzakh: An Essay in Micro history,” International workshop “New Approaches to the Social History of Central Asia”, Institute of History, 25-26 September, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

2012: “Society, Land and Water Rights in Jizzakh,” International workshop “Towards a New Social History of 19th-and Early 20th-Century Central Asia”, Institute of Iranian Studies, September 2-7, Vienna, Austria.

Fellowships, Grants and Awards

2024-2026: Georg Forster Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The title of the research project is: Internal labour migration in Central Asia, 1870-1917: Social drivers and government impediments to movement. https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1234323/dr-akmal-bazarbaev

2019-2020: Grant from the Ministry of Innovation of Uzbekistan: Member of the project “Modern medicine and folk medicine in Turkestan in the late 19th - early 20th centuries.” Project number: PZ 20170921162.

2018-2019: Chevening fellowship, “Exploring and enhancing the British Library’s Turkic-language collections”, London, UK, https://www.bl.uk/case-studies/akmal-bazarbaev

2014-2017: Gerda Henkel Foundation “Special Programme Central Asia” Research Scholarship in Tashkent. The title of the project is: “Property rights: Redistribution of land and water in Jizzakh under Russian rule.”

2010-2014: Volkswagen Foundation: Member of the project “The Archives Talk: Writing the Social History of Colonial Central Asia” in Tashkent-Halle (Saale).