Rockefeller Visiting Fellow 2006-07

Room 303 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN  46556 
 
Phone: 574-631-2640
Fax: 574-631-6973

E-mail: speshkov@nd.edu

Svetlana Peshkova received her doctorate from the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) in 2006. Her dissertation, “Otinchalar in the Ferghana Valley: Islam, Gender and Power,” discusses Muslim female religious practitioners and leaders and their role in social transformation. Peshkova’s geographic expertise is Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her research interests focus on questions of conflict, gender, religion and power.

While she is at the Kroc Institute, Peshkova will focus on ways in which socio-religious movements in the Ferghana Valley, Central Asia, take part in transformation of the socio-political situation in the region by shaping the discourse on human rights. Her project seeks to contrast and compare socio-political activism and discourse of the three local movements: the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Hizb-ut-Tahrir (The Party of Liberation) and the networks of female religious leaders and teachers known as otinchalar.

After graduating from a Russian university, Peshkova did graduate studies in religion and conflict, and received a master’s degree in theological studies, an advanced certificate in women’s studies, and a master’s in television/radio/film in the United States. In the past 10 years, she has worked with and for Russian Peace Foundation, Andrey Saharov Foundation (New York, Moscow), and universities in the United States on projects dealing with religion and conflict. During 2005-2006 she was a teaching associate at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

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