Partnership with Nazarbayev University
Globalizing the Wisconsin Idea

Resources

Links for UW Travelers to Nazabayev University (NU)

In addition to these resources, the International Division Safety and Security Office has a number of other resources for UW–Madison employees traveling abroad.

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About Kazakhstan

About Nur-Sultan

Places to Visit in Nur-Sultan

Map of Nur-Sultan

Culture and Food

Travelling with Electronics

Reports from International Non-Governmental Organizations

  1. 2019 Human Rights Report on Kazakhstan, US Embassy—Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
  2. Human Rights Watch Annual World Report 2020: Kazakhstan

News Sources from/in Kazakhstan

Select Scholarship on Kazakhstan

Available Online

  1. Robbins, C. (2010). Apples are from Kazakhstan: The land that disappeared. Atlas and Company.
  2. Silova, I., & Niyozov, S. (Eds.). (2020). Globalization on the margins: Education and post-socialist transformations in Central Asia. IAP.

Available in UW–Madison Libraries

  1. Ahn, E. S., & Smagulova, J. (Eds.). (2016). Language change in Central Asia. Walter de Gruyter.
  2. Aitken, J. (2009). Nazarbayev and the making of Kazakhstan: from communism to capitalism. Bloomsbury.
  3. Asemkulov, T., & Fairweather-Vega, S. (2019). A life at noon. Three String Books.
  4. Carmack, R. J. (2019). Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and ethnicity in the Soviet empire. University Press of Kansas.
  5. Laumulin, C., & Laumulin, M. (2009). The Kazakhs: Children of the steppes. Global Oriental.
  6. Keller, S. (2019). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, conquest, convergence. University of Toronto Press.
  7. Laszczkowski, M. (2016). ‘City of the future’: Built space, modernity and urban change in Astana. Berghahn Books.
  8. Lillis, J. (2018). Dark shadows: Inside the secret world of Kazakhstan. Bloomsbury.
  9. Pomfret, R. (2019). The Central Asian economies in the twenty-first century: Paving a new silk road. Princeton University Press.
  10. Salhani, C. (2011). Islam without a veil: Kazakhstan’s path of moderation. Potomac Books.
  11. Schatz, E. (2004). Modern clan politics: the power of” blood” in Kazakhstan and beyond. University of Washington Press.
  12. Shai︠a︡khmetov, M., & Butler, J. (2012). A Kazakh teacher’s story: Surviving the silent steppe. Stacey International.
  13. Silova, I., & Niyozov, S. (2020). Globalization on the margins. Education and post-Socialist transformations in Central Asia. Information Age Publishing.

Scholarly Books/Articles by NU Faculty

  1. Bissenova, A. (2016). Building a Muslim nation. In Bigozhin, U., Bissenova, A., Blum, D., Diener, A. C., Koch, N., Kudaibergenova, Laszczkowski, M., Peyrouse, S., Rancier, M., Tutumlu, A. and Schwab, W.; Kazakhstan in the Making: Legitimacy, symbols, and social changes, 211–228. Lexington Books.
  2. Caron, J. F. (Ed.). (2019). Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy: Between continuity and rupture. Springer.
  3. Dubuisson, E. M. (2017). Living language in Kazakhstan: The dialogic emergence of an ancestral worldview. University of Pittsburgh Press.
  4. McGuire, G. (2017). Cultural histories of kumiss: tuberculosis, heritage and national health in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), 493–510. 

Other Scholarly Articles

  1. Bekmagambetov, A., Wagner, K. M., Gainous, J., Sabitov, Z., Rodionov, A., & Gabdulina, B. (2018). Critical social media information flows: political trust and protest behaviour among Kazakhstani college students. Central Asian Survey, 37(4), 526–545.
  2. Fauve, A. (2015). Global Astana: nation branding as a legitimization tool for authoritarian regimes. Central Asian Survey, 34(1), 110–124.
  3. Laruelle, M., & Royce, D. (2019). Kazakhstani public opinion of the United States and Russia: testing variables of (un) favourability. Central Asian Survey, 38(2), 197–216.
  4. Martin, V. (2017). Engagement with empire as norm and in practice in Kazakh nomadic political culture (1820s–1830s). Central Asian Survey, 36(2), 175–194.