I am a PhD student of the Department of Political Science, Kent State University (since August 2005).  In 2001, I received my Master of Science in Politics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.  I also hold a degree in History which I completed in 1993 as an undergraduate at the Kyrgyz National University, Bishkek, the Kyrgyz Republic.  In addition, I studied at the Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (Ankara, Turkey, 1995-96, 1997-98).

I am an alumnus of several educational projects of the Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program, Budapest-Bishkek.  My primary research interests include the politics of Central Asia, politics of identity and nationalism in the former USSR, and comparative public administration and public policy making.

I worked for the Presidential Administration in Kyrgyzstan (Department of Social Policy, 1994-1995), taught at the American University-Central Asia (Department of International and Comparative Politics, 1998-2004), and worked for the European Union TACIS (Technical Assistance for the CIS) project on the Kyrgyz Civil Service Reform in Bishkek in 2005.  Also, I worked as a campaign manager and consultant in the local and parliamentary elections in Fall 2004/Winter 2005.

Among my publications in English, the two most recent are as follows:

Politics and Public Policy in the post-Soviet Central Asia: the Case of Higher Education Reform in Kyrgyzstan (research report). Central Eurasian Studies Review, Vol.3, Spring 2004.  http://www.cess.muohio.edu/cesr/html/CESR_03_2.html#Dukenbaev

Understanding Politics in Kyrgystan (co-authored with William W. Hansen). DEMSTAR Research Report No.16, Department of Political Science, of October 2003 (http://www.demstar.dk/html/politics.htm).

e-mail:  adukenba@kent.edu