Aziza Shanazarova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, where she specializes in the religious history of Islamic Central Asia and the broader Persianate world, with an emphasis on the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. She holds a dual Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Central Eurasian Studies completed at Indiana University-Bloomington in 2019. Before joining the Department of Religion, Aziza was a UCIS/REEES Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh.