English, Latin

English, Latin

English, Latin

Uli Schamiloglu is Professor and chair in the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. He is also director of the Ph.D. in Eurasian Studies program at Nazarbayev University. He received his B.A. in Middle East Languages and Cultures from Columbia College in 1979 (with a concentration in Turkish Studies) and his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Central Asian History from Columbia University in 1986. He also studied in the Department of Altaistics at Szeged University in Hungary in Fall 1982. He has taught previously at Indiana University-Bloomington (1983-1989) and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989-2017), where he is now professor emeritus.

His main research interests include the Turkic languages and cultures of the Middle East and Central Eurasia, the socio-economic history of the Middle East and Central Eurasia in the medieval period (especially the Golden Horde), the history of Turko-Islamic civilization, and modern intellectual movements among the Muslim Turkic peoples of the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Since the late 1980s he has also been interested in the role of the bubonic plague in the history of medieval Central Eurasia, especially the impact of plague on the history of populations, written monuments, literary languages, religiosity, and other spheres. This has led to a growing interest in the “Science of the History of Man”. In this regard, he has worked with colleagues to establish the Nazarbayev University aDNA Lab.

Graduating from Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature in 1996, Prof. Dr. Arda Arikan completed his Ph.D. at Penn State University’s Science, Technology, and Society program in 2002 with his dissertation on the professional development of foreign language instructors from a Postmodern narrative study perspective. He is currently employed at Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature. He continues his studies as a generalist by reading and writing on education, literature, and culture.