Travel to Kazakhstan

• Nazarbayev University—About Kazakhstan
• Wikipedia—Kazakhstan
• Lonely Planet—Kazakhstan
• Official Kazakhstan Tourism Board
• CIA World Factbook—Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan History Website(State Sponsored)
• Carnegie Endowment—Kazakhstan at 25

• Lonely Planet Sights in Astana
• Things to Do in Astana
• Architecture in Astana

• Bayterek Tower
• Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center
• National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Nur-Astana Mosque (Islamic Center)
• Opera House
• Palace of Peace and Accord (Pyramid of Peace) (Official)
• Palace of Peace and Accord (Pyramid of Peace) (Wikipedia)

Link to a map of the NU campus

• Kazakh Traditions—Official Tourism Board
• Kazakh Cuisine—Official Tourism Board
• Apples: The Fatherland of all Modern Apples—Kazakhstan
• The Abai Center
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Prose. (2019)
• Contemporary Kazakh literature. Poetry. (2019)
• Batayeva, Z. & Fairweather-Vega, S. (Eds.). Amanat. Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan. Gaudy Boy. (2022)

• Cyber and Data Security Abroad

1. 2023 Human Rights Report on Kazakhstan, US Embassy—Astana, Kazakhstan

• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Kazakhstan Bureau
• RFE/RL’s Central Asia blog
• Eurasianet—Kazakhstan
• US Embassy in (Kazakhstan) News
• KazInform, international Kazakhstani news agency
• The Astana Times
• The Diplomat (Central Asia region)

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.
3. Huisman, J., Smolentseva, A., & Froumin, I. (Eds.)(2018). 25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries. Springer Nature.
4. Chankseliani, M. (2022). What happened to the Soviet university? Oxford University Press. 
5. Chankseliani, M., Fedyukin, I., & Froumin, I. (Eds.)(2022). Building research capacity at universities: insights from post-Soviet countries. Palgrave MacMillan.

Available in UW–Madison Libraries

1. Ahn, E. S., & Smagulova, J. (Eds.). (2016). Language change in Central Asia. Walter de Gruyter.
2. Ahn, E. S., Dixon, J., & Chekmareva, L. (2018). Looking at Kazakhstan’s higher education landscape: From transition to transformation between 1920 and 2015. Ch. 8. Springer Nature.
3. Aitken, J. (2009). Nazarbayev and the making of Kazakhstan: from communism to capitalism. Bloomsbury.
4. Asemkulov, T., & Fairweather-Vega, S. (2019). A life at noon. Three String Books.
5. Carmack, R. J. (2019). Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and ethnicity in the Soviet empire. University Press of Kansas.
6. Laumulin, C., & Laumulin, M. (2009). The Kazakhs: Children of the steppes. Global Oriental.
7. Keller, S. (2019). Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, conquest, convergence. University of Toronto Press.
8. Kuzhabekova, A. (2022). Thirty years of research capacity development in Kazakhstani higher education. In Chankseliani et al. (2022) Building research capacity at universities: insights from post-Soviet countries (pp. 225-243). Palgrave MacMillan.
9. Laszczkowski, M. (2016). ‘City of the future’: Built space, modernity and urban change in Astana. Berghahn Books.
10. Lillis, J. (2018). Dark shadows: Inside the secret world of Kazakhstan. Bloomsbury.
11. Pomfret, R. (2019). The Central Asian economies in the twenty-first century: Paving a new silk road. Princeton University Press.
12. Salhani, C. (2011). Islam without a veil: Kazakhstan’s path of moderation. Potomac Books.
13. Schatz, E. (2004). Modern clan politics: the power of” blood” in Kazakhstan and beyond. University of Washington Press.
14. Shai︠a︡khmetov, M., & Butler, J. (2012). A Kazakh teacher’s story: Surviving the silent steppe. Stacey International.
15. Silova, I., & Niyozov, S. (2020). Globalization on the margins. Education and post-Socialist transformations in Central Asia. Information Age Publishing.

Select 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. 
5. Bazarkulova, D. & Compton, J. (2021). “Marriage traditions and investment in education: The case of bride kidnapping.” Journal of Comparative Economics 49 (1): 147-163.
6. Doumani Dupuy, P.N., Zhuniskhanov, A., Bullion, E., Kiyasbek, G.K., Tashmanbetova, Z., Rakhmankulov, E.Zh., Isin, A.I. (2021). The newly discovered bronze age site of Koken: Merging micro-regions with major study zones in the high steppes of Kazakhstan. Archaeological Research in Asia 27:1-6.

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.