People of the CAI

	Frederick L. Altice frederick.altice@yale.edu	Frederick (Rick) L. Altice is a professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health and is a clinician, clinical epidemiologist, intervention and implementation science researcher at Yale University School of Medicine and School of Public Health. His work has emerged primarily with a global health focus with funded research projects internationally in Malaysia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, and Indonesia. He has participated in projects through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, Special Projects of National Significance with HRSA, and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
	Katerina Clark katerina.clark@yale.edu	Katerina Clark is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her present book project, tentatively titled Eurasia without Borders?: Leftist Internationalists and Their Cultural Interactions, 1917–1943, looks at attempts in those decades to found a “socialist global ecumene,” which was to be closely allied with the anticolonial cause.
	Jinyi Chu jinyi.chu@yale.edu	Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He specializes in Russian literature and culture of 1890s-1920s, the modernist period. His research revolves around the relationship between geopolitics and transnational aesthetics. Specifically, he works on the following topics: global modernism; Russo-Chinese cultural relations; Russian poetry; late socialist culture; globalization and cosmopolitanism; science fiction; memory and memoirs; translation studies.
	Samuel Hodgkin samuel.hodgkin@yale.edu	Samuel Hodgkin is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in medieval and modern Eurasia. His research deals with literature and criticism written in prestige languages (Persian and Russian) and vernaculars (especially Turkic languages).
	William Honeychurch william.honeychurch@yale.edu	William Honeychurch is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He studies these questions through the archeological material remains left by horse nomads over the past 3000 years on the steppes of Mongolia. His field projects emphasize regional pedestrian survey to discover and map cemeteries, habitation sites, walled complexes, rock art, and ceremonial areas.
	Egor Lazarev egor.lazarev@yale.edu	Egor Lazarev is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Yale Universtiy. His research focuses on law and state-building in the former Soviet Union. His first book State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. The book explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya.
	Douglas Rogers doug.rogers@yale.edu	Douglas Rogers Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Yale University. He is a sociocultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in political and economic anthropology; natural resources (especially oil) and energy; the anthropology of religion and ethics; cultural production; historical anthropology; and socialist societies and their postsocialist trajectories.
	Claire Roosien claire.roosien@yale.edu	Claire Roosien is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is a cultural historian of modern Eurasia who teaches courses on modern Central Asia, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, and Russian empire and imperialism at Yale. Her book-in-progress, titled “Socialism Mediated: Culture, Propaganda, and the Public in Early Soviet Uzbekistan,” examines how Central Asian cultural intermediaries imagined and mobilized mass participation through Socialist Realist cultural production.
	Nari Shelekpayev nariman.shelekpayev@yale.edu	Nari Shelekpayev is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He studies the history of the late Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and its successor states with a focus on urban, cultural, and political aspects. He is currently working on two book-length projects, one about the political and urban history of Kazakhstan and the other about the history of Kazakhstan’s cultural forms and political systems under Soviet rule.
	Helen Siu helen.siu@yale.edu	Helen F. Siu, is a Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. She has conducted decades of fieldwork in Southern China, exploring agrarian change and commerce, the nature of the socialist state, and the refashioning of identities. Lately, she explores rural-urban interface in China, inter-Asian connections, China-Africa encounters, popular music and new political space in Hong Kong.
	Anne Underhill anne.underhill@yale.edu	Anne Underhill is Professor of Anthropology and Curator Peabody Museum at Yale University. She specializes in the archaeology of East Asia (primarily China). She has collaborated with archaeologists at Shandong University, China, in regional survey and excavation since 1995. The focus has been understanding changes in regional settlement and economic organization during the late prehistoric and early Bronze Age periods in the Rizhao area of southeastern Shandong.
	Odd Arne Westad arne.westad@yale.edu	Odd Arne Westad is Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. He is a historian specializing in modern international and global history, with a focus on eastern Asia since the 18th century. He has published 16 books on topics ranging from the history of the Cold War and China-Russia relations to post-colonial and global history and the modern history of China. His recent research focuses on the histories of empire and imperialism, particularly in Asia, and the origins and impact of China’s economic reforms in the late 20th century on the global economy.
	Dan Bromberg dan.bromberg@yale.edu	Daniel Bromberg is a doctoral student at the Yale School of Public Health and a predoctoral fellow at Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDs Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program at Yale Universtiy. Broadly, his research focuses on the implementation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) among incarcerated populations and in the Eastern European and Central Asian cultural context.
	Maggie Lindrooth maggie.lindrooth@yale.edu	Maggie Lindrooth is a current M.A. student in the European and Russian studies program at Yale. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, she earned her B.A. in Russian from Temple University in 2016 before joining the nonprofit sector as an AmeriCorps VISTA fellow at an anti-poverty organization in Chicago, IL. She subsequently taught English short-term in Taiwan and Kyrgyzstan and earned a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Mongolia for the 2018-2019 academic year. As a Fulbrighter, Maggie taught English to students at a vocational training college, held public writing workshops and developed a community drama club, volunteered at a reproductive health NGO, and studied the Mongolian language. Since returning to the United States, she has worked in grant writing, development, and communications for several nonprofits in the Philadelphia area. From July 2020-July 2022, she worked as the Grants and Communications Manager for Lutheran Settlement House, an organization that serves the elderly, people experiencing homelessness, and survivors of domestic violence. At Yale, Maggie is focusing on Mongolia and Central Asia. During her time in this program, she hopes to explore gendered experiences of socialism and post-socialism, Russia’s historical and continued influence on the region, and the construction of postcolonial narratives of statehood and national cultural identity. Building on her in-region work experience and language ability in Russian and Mongolian, Maggie intends to conduct both archival research and interview-based studies that approach these topics through a sociological and anthropological lens.
	Nazerke Mukhlissova nazerke.mukhlissova@yale.edu	Nazerke Mukhlissova is MA Student in European and Russian Studies at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, she was involved in several research projects that focused on the behaviour and policymaking of Central Asian states, as well as regional integration. She also completed internships with some of the most notable think tanks in Central Asia. Currently she is focusing on the political history of the Soviet Union, as well as Eastern European and Central Asian countries, with particular interests in memory politics, intellectual history, and nation and tradition building.