Azamat Junisbai, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Recent Courses:

• Sociology and Its View of the World (SOC01)
• Social Inequality (SOC86)
• Quantitative Research Methods (SOC101)
• Contemporary Central Asia (SOC95)

Selected Publications:

• "Understanding Economic Justice Attitudes in Two Countries: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan," Social Forces, vol.88, no.4 (2010).
• "Social Stratification and Musical Consumption: Highbrow - Middlebrow in the United States," in Tak Wing Chan, ed., Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. With Arthur S Alderson and Isaac Heacock.

Recent Conferences and Invited Talks:

• “Losers of Market Transition in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, September 16, 2011.
• "Winners and Losers of Economic Transition in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan," invited talk at the International Relations Colloquium, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, April 16, 2010.

Selected Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Travel Grant to support a second wave of public opinion surveys about inequality and economic justice in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, August 2011.
• Regional Policy Symposium on Regional Security in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, April 6-9, 2010.