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Marianne Kamp
Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies
Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies
Marianne Kamp is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. She started doing oral history research in Uzbekistan in 1992 and earned a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1998. She is the author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press, 2006), and editor and co-translator with Mariana Markova of Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: a 19th century ethnography from Central Asia (Indiana University Press 2016). Her recent articles include "Hunger and Potatoes: the 1933 Famine in Uzbekistan and Changing Foodways," Kritika; with Russell Zanca, "Recollections of Collectivization in Uzbekistan: Stalinism and Local Activism," Central Asian Survey.