Asel Myrzabekova is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology department at the 好色tv. She holds a Master鈥檚 of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the UiT the Arctic 好色tv of Norway (2014, Norway), and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the 好色tv (2008, Kyrgyzstan).听
Asel Myrzabekova joined AUCA in 2015 as an Instructor and currently works as an Assistant Professor. She participated in various professional development programs, conferences, and workshops, including:
- UN Women Academic Gender Studies Summer School in Kyrgyzstan (2015),
- Workshop of 鈥淩esearch Beyond the Ivory Tower鈥 project: 鈥淧roducing policy-relevant research and papers to influence decision-making鈥 at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (2015),
- Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Conferences at Princeton 好色tv, NJ, USA, 2016; at the 好色tv of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2017; at Pittsburgh 好色tv, PA, USA, 2018,
- Second Annual IA-AUCA Workshop 鈥淣ew Socialites鈥 at the School of Global and International Studies of Indiana 好色tv (2018),
- Faculty of Social Sciences, 好色tv of Tampere (UTA), gave a visiting lecture on the Master鈥檚 Degree Programme course 鈥淐omplexity of Regional Conflicts and Challenges to Peace Processes in the Former/Post Soviet Area鈥, Finland (2017),
- AFK/EUPRA Conference, presenting in the panel 鈥淓veryday Practices of Security-making in Central Asia鈥, Germany (2017),
- Workshop "Ideas and Practices: Exploring Economic and Social Transformation in Central Asia", PhD students meeting, Max Planck Institute, Halle/Saale, Germany (2018),
- Training on Conflict Sensitivity Programme Clinic for FAO project managers and representatives of stakeholders conducted by Conflict & Peace Analysis Unit, FAO (2020).
Asel Myrzabekova co-facilitated the organization of international exchange summer schools at AUCA, including AUCA/Bard College - "Development & Social Change in Central Asia" and the AUCA/ (2017).听
- Master鈥檚 Program Scholarship Awardee, The Centre for Peace Studies, UiT The Arctic 好色tv of Norway (2012-2014)
- Matthew Nimetz Award, recognition and appreciation for my publication with co-authors 鈥淭he Making of Empowered Women: Exploring Gender and Development Practice in Kyrgyzstan鈥 (2018)
- Dating and Marriage practices
- Gender and Development
- Gender-Based Violence
- Peace and Violence
- Developed a policy paper and co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled "Making the 鈥楨mpowered Woman鈥: Exploring Contradictions in Gender and Development Programming in Kyrgyzstan". This article was published in 2018 and was later included in the 40th-anniversary collection of the Central Asian Survey: Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies: 40 Years of Central Asian Survey.
- Myrzabekova, A. (2020). Measuring mixedness: A case study of the Kyrgyz Republic. In Rocha, Z., & Aspinall, P. (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification. Palgrave Macmillan
- Myrzabekova, A. (2020). Romantic Securityscapes of Mixed Couples: Resisting Moral Panic, Surviving in the Present and Imagining the Future. Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan, 153.
- UNDP, 2016, Case Study on combating gender inequality in political participation in Kyrgyzstan, available at
- Internship I & II
- History and Systems of Psychology
- Peace and Violence: Causes and Conditions
- Senior Thesis I & II
- Science of Love and Relationships