Djumashev Asqar Mambetovich

Current position: Head of the Department of History at the Karakalpak Research Institute of Humanities, Karakalpak Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Education: Higher education, graduated from Nukus State University, 1985–1991.

Postgraduate studies: Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Karakalpak Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1991–1994.

Doctoral studies: Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Karakalpak Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1999–2002.

Academic degree and title: Doctor of Historical Sciences (DSc), Professor

Research interests: 20th century. The history of Karakalpak statehood, the political elite, Soviet political repressions, collectivization policies, and demographic issues. He is a specialist in the socio-economic and political history of Karakalpakstan from 1924 to 1941. In his works, he explores the operations of the Soviet political system in the Republic of Karakalpakstan.

Academic experience: 2005–2006 – Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation; 2005–2007 – participant in the summer school “From History to Histories: Teaching the Past from a Local Perspective,” organized by the European University at Saint Petersburg (Russia); 2006–2008 – participant in the seminar “On the New Study of the History of Central Asia.”

Co-organizer of the corporate foundation “Training Center – Knowledge – Central Asia” in Almaty (Karakalpakstan); 2009–2011 – Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; July 25 – August 28, 2010 – participant in the summer school “Development of the Social History of Central Asia,” organized by Turan University (Almaty, Karakalpakstan); October–December 2016, July–December 2019, and September–November 2023 – research fellowships in Berlin through the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

He has conducted research in the libraries of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, as well as in Russia (Moscow, Orenburg), Karakalpakstan (Almaty, Kyzylorda), and Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Nukus). As a result of this work, he has introduced a vast amount of previously unknown archival material on the history of Karakalpakstan into academic discourse.

e-mail: djumashev@mail.ru