Presentations

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Conference Presentations
Europe

"Conflicts of Healing: Medical Resorts, Pilgrimage, and Shrines in the Ferghana Valley"  |  2016 (upcoming)
Religion and Medicine: Healing the Body and Soul from the Middle Ages to the Modern Day, Birbeck University, London, UK, July 15-16

Central Asia

"Bountiful Forest: The Fruits of Heaven at Arslanbob Ata"  |  2016 (upcoming)
International Symposium on the Environmental Archive of Central Asia, Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, April 18-19

United States

"Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan"  |  2015
Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 17

"Becoming a Baqshy: Indigenous Healers in Rural Kyrgyzstan" |  2015
Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2

“Locating the Past: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman” |  2015
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3

“Sacred Space in the Pamirs through the Eyes of European Travelers” |  2011
Russia, East Europe, and Central Asian Studies NW Conference, Seattle, WA, April 16

“Apocryphal Texts and Their Communities: Authority in the Scripture on the Ten Kings” |  2004
Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, September 10

Lectures & Round Table Discussions
United States

"In the Archives"  |  2015
University of Washington Digital History Colloquium, Seattle, WA, May 12

"Shrines and Healing in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan" |  2014
The Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Seattle, WA, January 28

"Shrines and Pilgrimage: The Case of Takht-i Sulaiman" |  2014
University of Washington History Department Colloquium, Seattle, WA, January 31

Central Asia

"Pilgrimage and Shrines in Central Asia" |  2012
IREX, Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN, July 12
Read my Scholar Research Brief: Pilgrimage and Shrines in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

"Negotiating Modernity: Places and Objects in the Context of Kyrgyzstan" |  2012
Research Seminar, Tian Shan Policy Center, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN, June 12

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Book Reviews

“New Research on Sacred Places in Central Asia.” The Silk Road 11 (2013): 215-6

“New Turns on the Silk Road.” The Silk Road 9 (2011): 154-5

Articles in Progress

“Resort or Shrine? Medicine, Tourism, and Pilgrimage in Kyrgyzstan”

“Memory, Modernity, and Islam in the Ferghana Valley: the Shrine of Takht-i-Sulaiman”