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Meet the team

Our team consists of researchers from Mongolia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan and the UK

  • MONGOLIA
  • KYRGYZSTAN
  • JAPAN
  • UK
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G. Munkherdene

Senior Lecturer


Senior Lecturer, the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology the National University of Mongolia, and an Executive Secretary of the Mongolian Anthropological Association

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Batbuyan Batvaj

Research Associate


Dr Batjav’s research engages critically with socio-environmental governance in the context of environmental change and pastoral communities. 

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Zalina Enikeeva

Research Fellow


Zalina Enikeeva is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy and Administration of the University of Central Asia.

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Kemel Toktomushev

Senior Research Fellow


Senior Research Fellow with UCA’s Institute of Public Policy and Administration

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Buho Hoshino

Professor


Professor, Dean of Graduate School of Dairy Sciences, Head of Laboratory of Environmental Remote Sensing, Department of Environmental Science, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan). Associate of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), USA and Full member of Sigma Xi.

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Chieko Hirota

PhD Student


Area studies and cultural anthropology doctoral student at the graduate school of Chiba University

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Takahiro Tomita

Associate Professor


Associate professor at Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

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Takahiro Ozaki

Professor


Professor of faculty of law, economics and humanities in Kagoshima University, Japan.

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Moe Terao

Specially Appointed Research Fellow


Specially Appointed Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Humanities of Kagoshima University. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in social anthropology at Tokyo Metropolitan University.

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Yuki Morinaga

Professor


Professor Yuki Morinaga of Meiji University has been investigating and recording the traditional method of Airag production.

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Yuko Matsumiya

Senior Lecturer


Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University.

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Ariell Ahearn

Departmental Lecturer


Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography

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Elizabeth Hempstead

Project Coordinator


Project Coordinator and Research Assistant for the PPIA project.

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Troy Sternberg

Senior Researcher


Senior Researcher, participate in project design and communication, organize fieldwork seasons in Kyrgyzstan, lead on edited book projects