American University of Central Asia - AUCA

Mukaram Toktogulova, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Associate Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

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Dr. Mukaram Toktogulova is an Associate Professor of the non-degree General Education program at the American University of Central Asia. She received her Ph.D. in Philological Sciences from the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences (2001, Kyrgyzstan).

Dr. Toktogulova joined AUCA in 1999, and she was a Research Fellow at Indiana University (2018, USA), a participant in the EHESS Islamic Education in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan program (2015, France), and the Crossroads Asia Fellowship (2013, Germany). She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Pittsburgh (2011, USA), a visiting fellow at the University of Kansas (2007, 2009, USA), a resource faculty member of the Regional Seminar of Excellence in Teaching “Building Anthropology in Eurasia” (2007), and a visiting scholar of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus of Harvard University (2004-2006). She attended various professional conferences and seminars, such as the Seminar of Research Design for CARTI Grantees (2007, Hungary), the Regional Seminar on Excellence in Teaching: Teaching Islam in Eurasia (2006, Russia), and the Course Development Program for AUCA faculty at the Indiana University in Bloomington (2003, USA).

Dr. Toktogulova is a member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) and a member of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS).

Fulbright Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2010-2011

Folklore of Central Asia
Islam in Central Asia
Kyrgyz Literature
Language and Culture
Language Ideologies

Books:

2022. Ilimij izildoo usuldary. Uuluu toolor. Bishkek, (Research Methods in Social Sciences). Ed. M. Toktogulova.
Toktogulova Mukaram. K. Zhusubalievdin zhazuuchuluk tagdyry: chygarmachylyktagy erkindik zhana akyikattyn zholu. ( Book about Kyrgyz writer K.Zhusubaliev) Bishkek. “Uluu Toolor”
2007. Mazar Worship in Kyrgyzstan: Rituals and Practitioners in Talas. Bishkek. Maxprint. The book co-edited with G.Aitpaeva, A.Egemberdieva .

Papers:

Female, Veiled, Active: Muslim Professionals in Self-development Training in Today’s Kyrgyzstan. Manja Stephan- Emmrich,Toktogulova Mukaram. IQAS. Vol.54 No.4 (2024.02).Mosques and Meeting Rooms: Professional Lives of Muslim Women. P.363-388. IQAS Winter 2023 / Article “Female, Veiled, Active” by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Mukaram Toktogulova
Representation of Islam and Muslims in Kyrgyz Media: Contesting interpretations, in the book “Mapping the Media and Communication Landscape of Central Asia”. Lexington books. 2023. pp. 173-196.
Book chapter. 2023. From Hate Speech to Nonviolent Communication. Bishkek. Turar. Supported by UNDP. (in Russian)
Invisible epic reciters: Recognition problems of female manaschi in Kyrgyz Society. «PRESERVATION AND POPULARIZATION OF INTANGIBLE ETHNOCULTURAL HERITAGE: TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY» within the framework of the IV Meeting of UNESCO Masterpieces on Olonkho Land International Festival
Collection of materials from the International Scientific Symposium, June 20 – 22, 2022, Yakutsk City, The Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Russia. pp. 23-28
Islam in the context of Nation building in Kyrgyzstan: Reproduced practices and Contested discourses. Muslim world. 2020.Vol.110, No.1. pp. 51-63. 2019.
The Localization of the Transnational Tablighi Jama’at Network in Kyrgyzstan, in the book “Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia”. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2017. p. 223-243

Ethnographic Field Research Methods
Ethnographic Field Research Methods
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Manas Studies