<p>Political Economy of Development; Politics of Central and South Asia; Politics of the Former Soviet Union; Afghanistan; State Building; Informal Institutions and Customary Governance; Political Islam</p>
Given Name:
Email Address:
jmurtaz@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Murtazashivili
Publications:
2012 “Colored by Revolution: The Political Economy of Autocratic Stability in Uzbekistan.” Democratization
2012 “Soviet Union in Central Asia,” in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia
2012 “Osama bin Laden,” in Volume 4: Cultural Sociology of West, Central, and South Asia; Part 3, 1900 to Present: Soviet Union in Central Asia
Qualifications:
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Department:
Public and International Affairs
Office:
412-648-7611
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Office phone number:
3619 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Rank:
Associate Professor
Biography:
<p>Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. She is writing a book on the role of customary and village governance in the state-building process in Afghanistan for which she conducted interviews and focus groups in more than 30 Afghan villages across six provinces over the span of two years. In the policy world, she has managed U.S. Government democracy assistance for the United States Agency of International Development in Uzbekistan and drafted legislative materials for the new Afghan Parliament as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program in Kabul. She has lived for more than seven years in various parts of Central Eurasia, primarily in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Jennifer was a research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School and served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a M.A. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.</p>
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