Central Asia at the Harriman
The study of Central Asia at Columbia is closely linked to the teaching and research of Edward A. Allworth (1920-2016), distinguished pioneer in Central Asian Studies. Allworth, an alumnus of the Russian Institute and longtime faculty member at Columbia University, was founding director of both the Program on Soviet Nationality Problems (1970) and the Center for Central Asian Studies (1984). The Harriman Institute holds an annual lecture in Allworth’s honor and funds the Central Eurasian Studies Society’s Edward Allworth Lifetime Achievement Award. Today former director Alexander Cooley’s research has Central Asia as a major focus, for example, in his book Great Games, Local Rules: The New Power Contest for Central Asia (2012).
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Central Asia Faculty

Knar Abrahamyan
Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Race

Justin Burke
Lecturer of International and Public Affairs

Alexander A. Cooley
Claire Tow Professor of Political Science & Vice Provost for Research, Libraries and Academic Centers, Barnard College

Lawrence Markowitz
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

Matthew Murray
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs

Aziza Shanazarova
Assistant Professor of Religion

Taylor Zajicek
Mellon Teaching Fellow in the Harriman Institute, Lecturer in History