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William Fierman

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wfierman@indiana.edu
Department:
Emeriti Faculty
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IU Bloomington
Goodbody Hall 323

Education

Ph.D., Havard University, 1979

Current Doctoral Students

  • Blake Puckett

Research Interests

politics of Central Asia, especially policies affecting language, Islam, and state identities.

Courses Recently Taught

  • U519 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Nationality Problems
  • U596 - Post-Soviet Transition in Central Asia
  • U597 - Politics and Society in Central Asia

Publication Highlights

Language Planning and National Development:  The Uzbek Experience (Mouton Press, 1991)

Edited Book:

Soviet Central Asia:  The Failed Transformation (Westview Press, 1991)

Editor of Journal Special Issue

"Implementing Language Laws:  Perestroika and its Legacy in Five Republics: Nationalities Papers, XXIII, No. 3 (1995), pp 505-659

Scholarly articles and book chapters:

"Perceptions of Threats from 'Alien Faiths:" An Analysis of Reactions in the Kazakh-Language Press," in Andrea Strasser et al. (eds.) Central Asia and Islam, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut (2002), pp 159-171

"Changing Urban Demography and the Prospects of Nationalism in Kazakhstan," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, XXVII, Nos. 1-2 (2000), 7-20

Language and Identity in Kazakhstan:  Formulations in Policy Documents, 1987-1997," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, XXX, No. 2 (1998), 1771-186

"Political Development in Uzbekistan:  Democratization?" in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.)Conflict, Cleabage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp 360-408

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