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Svetlana A. Peshkova
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: 521 Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-3861
speshkov@syr.edu
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Professor Peshkova specializes in anthropology of Muslim communities in the Post-Soviet world. Her dissertation research focused on Muslim women leaders in the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan). She holds masters degrees in linguistics, theological studies, and media studies, and recently completed a post-doc at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where she worked on transnational Islamic movements. She has published articles in the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing & Social Justice, and has also directed and produced two documentaries. Peshkova teaches courses on Islamic social movements, political Islam, and gender.
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| Courses: |
The Islamic Tradition
Anthropology of Islam
Gender in Islam
Transnational Islamic Movements |
| Education: |
Ph.D., Anthropology, Syracuse University (2006)
M.A., Television, Radio and Film, Syracues University (2002)
M.T.S., Emory University
(1999)
M.A., State University of Linguistics (1996)
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| Career: |
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University,
2007-present.
- Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Peace Studies, University
of Notre Dame, 2006-2007.
- Teaching Fellow, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2004-2006.
- Hewlett Foundation/PARC Research Assistant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2003-2004.
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Publications:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
- "Politcal-Social Movements: Protest Movements in the Caucasus and Central Asia," in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Volume 3. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; pp. 633-636 (2005).
- "Sources and Methocs for Studying Women in Islamic Cultures: Post-Soviety Central Asia," in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), Volume 2. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; pp. 267-272 (2004).
- "What Does Allah have to do with Eminem in Uzbekistan? Notes from the Near Past," in Beg, Borrow, or Steal 1:8-10 (2003).
- "Freedom as an "Innate Desire": Chechens and the Russian Federation," in Maxwell Review. Spring 2002: 68-80 (2002).
- "Family, Sacred Places and Islamic Law: Islamic Approash to Reproductive Health in the Ferghana Valley," in Anthro-Globe, a web Journal (2002).
- "i-Islam@Hisb-ut-Tahrir.org," in Anthro-Globe, a web Journal (2002).
- An-Na'im, Abdullahi and Svetlana Peshkova "Social Movements Revisited: Mediation of Contradictory Roles," in The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing & Social Justice. Edited by Ifi Amadiume & Abdullahi An-Na'im, pp. 68-90. London: Zed Books (2000).
Radio and Video Broadcasts:
- "Motherhood in America" a guest speaker at the NPR program "Women's Voices" (2005).
- Showsisters documentary produced by Svetlana Peshkova, directed by Peshkova/de Barra (2002).
- After 9/11 documentary produced by Svetlana Peshkova, directed by Peshkova/de Barra as shown by WCNY (2002).
- "Women in Uzbekistan" a guest speaker at the NPR program "Women's Voices" (2001).
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