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  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Social Cultural Anthropology\nMinors: Central Eurasian and Uralic Studies; Gender Studies

  Anthropology

  Indiana University Bloomington

  BA

  Anthropology; History and Philosophy of Science

  MA

  Cultural Anthropology

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  Locating Kazakhstan: The Role of LGBT Voices in the Asia/Europe Debate

  Spanning both Europe and Asia geographically

  Kazakhstan can be and is interpreted as an Asian

  European

  and/or Eurasian state. This debate as to what/ where is Kazakhstan continues in LGBT themed cultural production and the ambiguity is used to make statements about the conditions for LGBT people in Kazakhstan. This article situates this debate in a broader discussion of East and West and of Orientalism. LGBT themed websites contest the position of Kazakhstan

  using available discourse that places East and West in a spatialized

  temporalized

  and hierarchical relationship in which West is above

  ahead of

  and superior to East. Both East and West are portrayed as different forms of Utopia

  an achievable Western form and a fantastical Eastern form

  with Kazakhstan occupying a non-Utopian middle ground. In this article

  the global South

  represented here by Brazil

  also becomes Orientalized and in essence becomes the East’s Utopian East. Photo essays about a Kazakh drag queen and gay couple who have moved from Kazakhstan to Brazil are examined in detail. The LGBT websites Gay.kz and Gay.ru are also used to demonstrate the way that Kazakhstan is positioned in LGBT discourse along the East/West slope

  particularly in relation to Russia.

  Locating Kazakhstan: The Role of LGBT Voices in the Asia/Europe Debate

  Notes from the Field: LGBT in Kyrgyzstan

  LGBT In Central Asia: 2014's Most Pivotal Moments

  Los Alamos Arts Council

  Fuller Lodge Art Center

  Indiana University Bloomington

  Los Alamos County - White Rock Branch Library

  THE LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  IUPUI

  Independent Scholar

  Los Alamos

  NM

  Researcher

  THE LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  Los Alamos

  NM

  Interim Gallery Shop Manager

  Fuller Lodge Art Center

  Folklore F101 Intro to Folklore\nFolklore F 364 Children's Folklore

  IUPUI

  Instructor - Global Village Living Learning Center

  GLLC-G220: LGBT/Q Activisms Worldwide

  Indiana University Bloomington

  Indiana University Bloomington

  Department of Gender Studies

  GNDR G-325: Technologies of Gender

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Los Alamos

  NM

  Interim Executive Director

  Los Alamos Arts Council

  Department of Anthropology

  Taught undergraduate Anthropology course: Rethinking Race Globally

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Indiana University Bloomington

  Los Alamos

  NM

  Docent

  THE LOS ALAMOS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  White Rock

  NM

  Senior Library Technician

  Los Alamos County - White Rock Branch Library

  Independent Scholar

  Indiana University

  Indiana University Bloomington

  CLLC L-110: Text

  Image

  Sound: Cyberqueers

  Gaymers

  and Slash

  Instructor - Collins Living Learning Center

  Indiana University Bloomington

  Q*ASEEES: Society for the Promotion of LGBTQ Slavic

  East European

  & Eurasian Studies

  Officer

  Association for Slavic

  East European

  and Eurasian Studies

  American Anthropological Association

  LGBTQA Section of the American Folklore Socity

  Co-Convener

  Central Eurasian Studies Society

  Association for Queer Anthropology

  Soyuz

  Association for Diversity in Slavic

  East European

  and Eurasian Studies

  Board Member (2017)

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  Kyrgyz

  Kazakh

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