William Fierman
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William Fierman is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington.
He is also Director of Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, IU Bloomington.
[edit] Education
- B.A. at Indiana University, 1971
- M.A. at Harvard University, 1975
- Ph.D. at Harvard University, 1979
[edit] Works
His major contributions to Central Asian Studies include:
- Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Experience (Mouton Press, 1991).
- Edited Book: Soviet Central Asia: The Failed Transformation (Westview Press, 1991).
- Editor of Journal Special Issue
- "Implementing Language Laws: Perestroika and its Legacy in Five Republics: Nationalities Papers, XXIII, No. 3 (1995), pp 505-659
- Scholarly articles and book chapters:
- "Perceptions of Threats from 'Alien Faiths:" An Analysis of Reactions in the Kazakh-Language Press," in Andrea Strasser et al. (eds.) Central Asia and Islam, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut (2002), pp 159-171.
- "Changing Urban Demography and the Prospects of Nationalism in Kazakhstan," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, XXVII, Nos. 1-2 (2000), 7-20
- Language and Identity in Kazakhstan: Formulations in Policy Documents, 1987-1997," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, XXX, No. 2 (1998), 1771-186
- "Political Development in Uzbekistan: Democratization?" in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott (eds.) Conflict, Cleabage and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp 360-408.
