QUESTIONNAIRE: Guide to Scholars of Central Asia

[Central Asia Forum]

SUBJECT: Gathering Information on Scholars to Include in Revised Guide
         to Scholars of Central Asia
NOTE:    This is being sent to multiple lists as well as individuals to
         insure maximal coverage.  We apologize for duplicates.


Dear Colleague,

Several years ago, I and colleagues from Central Asia and Russia
compiled information for a guide to scholars of Central Asia.  Our goals
were to promote contacts and cooperation among specialists in this field
and to lead researchers to relevant scholarship.  This appeared as the
_Guide to Scholars of the History and Culture of Central Asia_ (Harvard
University, 1995).  The first edition has found a substantial demand and
has gone through two printings, with orders coming in from dozens of
countries worldwide.  We have been assured by scholars throughout the
world that it has played a very useful role in promoting integration and
cooperation in this field.

We are currently preparing a revised edition of the Guide, and request
your assistance in this effort.  Our goal is to improve on the previous
edition in several ways:  a) by updating and supplementing information
on scholars included in the first edition; b) by including scholars who
may have been missed in the first edition as well as new scholars in
this growing field; and c) by making a systematic effort to improve both
geographic and disciplinary coverage.  This work is made possible by a
grant from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), which is
also making the Guide available in a searchable electronic edition on
the World Wide Web.

The new edition will be entitled more simply and comprehensively:
_Guide to Scholars of Central Asia_.  Where the emphasis had been
previously on fields related to history and culture, the Guide will now
include all fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences.  And while the
first edition focused mainly on the "core" of Central Asia - Kazakstan,
Kirghizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - the new edition
will seek to cover more comprehensively the entire region of "Greater
Central Asia": from the Volga Basin and the Caucasus, to Southwestern
Siberia, Eastern Turkistan, Mongolia, Northern Iran and Afghanistan.

The aim of the Guide is to be inclusive, and we encourage submissions
from all scholars who have produced *at least three scholarly works*
(articles, books, and/or a dissertation).  In order that we should not
miss any relevant scholar, we ask your assistance in distributing our
questionnaire to your colleagues, as you know best the scholars in your
field and your region.  If you can copy and pass on the questionnaire or
send us addresses of relevant scholars, we would be most grateful.  As
in the previous edition, we will also give remembrance to scholars in
the field who are recently deceased, so please help us to know whom we
should thus honor.

Note that we plan to complete data-gathering by April 1998.  Shortly
thereafter, the revised Guide will be available at a minimum cost (with
a special low price for scholars in Central Asia and countries with
similar economic conditions).  Please see the accompanying questionnaire
for further information on how to ensure inclusion of your complete and
current information, including how you may submit your information via
e-mail or the World Wide Web.  If you were included in the first edition
of the Guide, you may simply provide updated information as indicated on
the form.

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the very valuable
assistance provided by generous scholars throughout the world in helping
to make the first edition as complete as possible.  With your
assistance, we will be able to make the new edition an even more
comprehensive and useful tool.  Thank you very much for your help.

     Sincerely,

     John S. Schoeberlein



GUIDE TO SCHOLARS OF CENTRAL ASIA:  QUESTIONNAIRE

- This questionnaire is also available on paper and on the World Wide
  Web.  For information, please see below.

- FOR THOSE WHO WERE INCLUDED IN THE FIRST EDITION: To update your entry
  rather than providing all new information, you can a) send a photocopy
  of your Guide entry with changes, b) send us a request for a form with
  your information via e-mail or post, or c) visit the Forum's web page
  for further information (see addresses below).

- FOR RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS: Esli Vy predpochitali by zapolnit' anketu po-
  russki, to mozhno zdes', ili soobshchite nam, i my Vam prishlem russkii
  variant.

*IMPORTANT NOTE*: Submissions that lack key information (e.g., contact
info., bibliography) MAY NOT BE INCLUDED in the Guide.  Also: You may
omit personal information and indicate if you wish certain data not to
be included in the world wide web edition.  Please use English, Russian,
French or German - except addresses, bibliographical information, titles
and degrees which should be in their own language.

When you have completed the questionnaire, please return it via e-mail
to <centasia at fas.harvard.edu> by using the "Bounce", "Redirect", "Reply"
or "Forward" function of your e-mail system.  If your responses include
nonstandard characters [e.g., Turkish dot-less i, accented letters] you
can send the information as an attached Microsoft Word file.  If you
respond in Russian, please use KOI-8 Cyrillic, Windows-standard
Cyrillic, or one of the standard transliteration systems.  If you
choose, you may print out the questionnaire and return it by post to the
address given below.


QUESTIONNAIRE


Please fill out COMPLETELY.

Provide response to each question after the double equals ("==") sign
[EXAMPLE  1. Family name
          == Smith]

1. a) FAMILY NAME [provide preferred Latin version if your language is
   written in a different script]
==

b) GIVEN NAMES
==

c) ALTERNATE FORMS OF NAME [e.g., in your native language (if non-Latin
   alphabet), or as you transliterate it into Cyrillic or Arabic]
==

2. GENDER [M or F]
==

3. a) DATE OF BIRTH [day-month-year]
==
b) PLACE OF BIRTH, and other biographical information of interest
   [optional]
==

4. PLACE OF WORK [institution, department]
==

TITLE or Position
==
5. ADDRESSES:
a) WORK ADDRESS [street, no., postal code, country]
==

b) OFFICE TELEPHONE [include city/area code]
==

c) HOME ADDRESS [optional]
==

d) HOME TELEPHONE [optional]
==
Do you want your home tel. included in the on-line guide? [Y or N]
==

e) E-MAIL ADDRESS
==
Do you want your e-mail included in the on-line guide? [Y or N]
==

6. EDUCATION [institution, major subject, year of completion: university
   and post-graduate]
==

7. HIGHEST ACADEMIC DEGREE/TITLE
==

8. AREAS OF INTEREST:
a) DISCIPLINE [e.g., archaeology, art history...]
==

b) REGION [e.g., Pamir, Bactria, Kazakstan...]
==

c) TIME PERIOD [e.g., Bronze Age, Early Modern: 17th - 18th c. A.D.,
   contemporary: 1917 - present...]
==

d) PEOPLE/GROUP [e.g., Kazaks, clergy, Andronovo culture...]
==

e) SPECIALIZATION [e.g., ceramics, family ritual, agriculture,
   education...]
==

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY [3 works MINIMUM, 5 MAXIMUM, showing the fundamental
directions of research. You must provide FULL INFORMATION, including co-
authors, editorship, year and place of publication, and for articles,
the name of the journal or collection; those providing inadequate
information MAY BE OMITTED FROM THE GUIDE.  We welcome information on
more than 5 works, but in this case please indicate the 5 to include in
the Guide.]
==

10. DESIRED CONTACTS/interest in collaborative projects [optional]
==

11. OTHER information of general interest:
a) KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES [e.g., "native: French, reading: Russian,
   Persian"]
==

b) YOUR ETHNIC OR NATIONAL BACKGROUND [optional]
==

c) OTHER
==



This form is also available on the World Wide Web at:
     http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/guide_qu.htm

You may also obtain a questionnaire by post.  Send a request to
     CentralAsia at fas.harvard.edu
or to:
     John Schoeberlein - Guide Questionnaire
     Forum for Central Asian Studies
     Harvard University
     1737 Cambridge Street
     Cambridge, MA 02138   USA

In addition, the questionnaire is available at IREX offices in the
following cities: Almaty, Bishkek, Erevan, Irkutsk, Kyiv, Moscow,
Rostov-on-Don, Tashkent, Tbilisi.  Addresses of these offices are listed
at the IREX World Wide Web site:
     http://www.irex.org/about/contact/field.htm
or may be obtained by request from <centasia at fas.harvard.edu>.

We strongly encourage all scholars and institutions in this field to
assist in making the Guide as complete as possible by helping us to
distribute the Questionnaire to colleagues.  Please don't allow
colleagues in your institution or field to be missed!  You may a)
forward this form via e-mail, b) print out and copy the form, c) provide
the required information in any form, or d) send us e-mail or postal
addresses to which to send additional questionnaires.