Berkley Center

Chorshanbe Goibnazarov holds the position of assistant professor and research fellow at the UCA’s School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Development. He teaches cultural studies courses at the Khorog and Naryn Campuses of the university. Goibnazarov earned his Ph.D. in Central Asian and Cultural Studies from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and holds a Master of Arts in Muslim Cultures from the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at the Aga Khan University in London, UK. 

Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji holds the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Endowed Chair of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. Her research examines how gender, race, religion, and power intersect in the lives of Muslim communities in South Asia and North America, with particular attention to experiences of displacement and community formation. She is the author of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl (University of California Press), Sovereign Attachments (University of California Press), Rebuilding Community (Oxford University Press), The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood (University of Minnesota Press), and Thinking Past Crisis (New York University Press, forthcoming). Professor Khoja-Moolji is the Faculty Director of the Mountain Societies Initiative (Central Asia) based at Georgetown. She holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Columbia University.